Gary Marcus: LLMs alone are not enough for AGI
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-07-20
Gary Marcus says that none of the four people in the cited thread believe LLMs alone are sufficient for AGI.
The post frames this as a follow-up to a list of AI figures worth following, including François Chollet, Yann LeCun, Gary Marcus, and Ilya Sutskever, and reasserts Marcus’s long-running skepticism that current LLMs by themselves can get to AGI.
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