kuza55 accuses Gary Marcus of retconning his AI scaling predictions
kuza55 · x · 2026-09-04
Joshua Saxe argues Gary Marcus and François Chollet were prescient about neurosymbolic reasoning and program synthesis, calling code execution letting LLMs "jailbreak the liminal space between reason and reflex" a top-3 breakthrough of the past four years. kuza55 pushes back: Marcus is retconning his predictions, which generally pointed away from the scaling-up-transformers-and-data direction that actually got us here.
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