Gary Marcus

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Score 24
6/16/2025, 2:36:24 AM
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Holly ⏸️ Elmore
@ilex_ulmus
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63d
@GaryMarcus I don’t think frontier AI is for sure dangerous, but I resent being asked to be reasonable by having criteria by which I would know we are safe. Nobody knows that! We need proper oversight and accountability and pre-testing to know that.
Gary Marcus
@GaryMarcus
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64d
1. What would convince me to shorten my AGI timelines? robust, principled solutions to things like hallucinations and stupid errors.

2. What would convince doomers to extend their timelines? As far as I can tell, nothing. (Prove me wrong?)
Gary Marcus
@GaryMarcus
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64d
When you can solve this problem (& related problems of hallucination and poor planning, etc) maybe you can get to AGI quickly.

But I see no robust solution to any of these problems on the immediate horizon.

If you project AGI soon, and have no solution to these problems, you

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