Gary Marcus

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@NotBrain4brain @SteveStricklan6 Is that an excuse? I bet with the right prompt you can actually get it, so you might argue it isn’t properly prompting imagen :)

5/18/2025, 4:00:53 AM

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Brain4brain

@NotBrain4brain

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@SteveStricklan6 @GaryMarcus That's because it's doing tool calling to imagen, a separate tool, the model isn't doing the generation

Steve Strickland

@SteveStricklan6

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@GaryMarcus Was hoping Gemini 2.5 Pro would get this right - but nope. It’s Google Deep Mind’s flagship model trained on vast quantities of data and compute. But it still gets tripped up by this most basic of LLM gotchas. Generative AI is inherently unreliable technology.

Gary Marcus

@GaryMarcus

245d

So, let me get this straight, a bunch of LLMs that don’t understand clocks and time zones (to say nothing of chess boards and the rules of chess) are going to kill us all before the end of the decade?

I am all for studying AI safety but can we please decouple it from ludicrous

The statement is part of a discussion on the reliability of AI models, specifically in generating accurate images based on prompts. It questions the excuse given for a model's failure to generate the correct image, suggesting that better prompting might yield the desired result.

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