Gary Marcus' Keynote at AGI-24
Published:Aug 17, 2024 20:35
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Analysis
Gary Marcus critiques current AI, particularly LLMs, for unreliability, hallucination, and lack of true understanding. He advocates for a hybrid approach combining deep learning and symbolic AI, emphasizing conceptual understanding and ethical considerations. He predicts a potential AI winter and calls for better regulation.
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Reference
“Marcus argued that the AI field is experiencing diminishing returns with current approaches, particularly the "scaling hypothesis" that simply adding more data and compute will lead to AGI.”