Gary Marcus says a 900-ELO chess bot is nowhere near AGI
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-07-29
Gary Marcus pushes back on claims that Fable is “close to AGI,” arguing that a system that can only play chess at around 900 ELO is nowhere near human-level general intelligence. He adds that a young Garry Kasparov would likely have beaten the best commercial LLMs at chess, underscoring how weak such comparisons can be.
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