Hinton claims chatbots are 'faking being stupid' to hide their intelligence; Gary Marcus mocks 'Godfather of Cope'
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-05
Ewan Morrison quotes Geoffrey Hinton's take on why chatbots seem persistently stupid: they are pretending — deliberately making mistakes to hide how intelligent they really are. "They're already faking being fairly stupid when they're tested," says Hinton. Gary Marcus reshared it with the jab "The Godfather of Cope," mocking what he sees as a conspiratorial explanation for the gap between AI hype and real performance — a snapshot of the ongoing rift over how to read model capabilities.
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