Marcus on AI

LLM “reasoning” is so cooked they turned my name into a verb

Quoth Josh Wolfe, well-respected venture capitalist at Lux Capital:

Apple just GaryMarcus’d LLM reasoning ability

Ha ha ha. But What’s the fuss about?

Apple has a new paper; it’s pretty devastating to LLMs, a powerful followup to one from many of the same authors last year.

There’s actually an interesting weakness in the new argument—which I will get to below—but the overall force of the argument is undeniably powerful. So much so that LLM advocates are already partly conceding the blow while hinting at, or at least hoping for, happier futures ahead.