Gary Marcus ridicules claims that unreleased AI can do a high-school task for $1T
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-07-25
Gary Marcus mocks a claim that an unreleased AI could do, for trillions of dollars, something a high school senior would happily do for a beer. The quote is a pointed rebuttal to fanboy optimism about internal lab models and uncapped token spend.
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