Gary Marcus Reiterates Warning: LLMs Are Still 'Bulls in a China Shop'
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-08-11
Gary Marcus looks back at his warnings from late 2022 to the present, criticizing modern language models as "bulls in a china shop"—powerful yet hard to control. He pushes back against the "scale is all you need" narrative, arguing the industry is now in deep trouble without a plan.
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