Gary Marcus rebuts Jensen Huang's AGI declaration: no evidence, no definitions, just corporate fiat
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-07
Gary Marcus pushes back on Jensen Huang's claim that the race to AGI is over, arguing it came with no evidence and no definitions — a corporate takeover of a scientific question.
Key points:
- Points to agidefinition.AI (Hendrycks, Bengio et al.) as the rigor AGI claims need.
- By his 10-item bet with Brundage, Astra may approach autoformalization and reliable coding but likely fails the other eight.
- Cites Peter Wildeford's hands-on view that GPT 6 Astra is not meaningfully better than Fable 5.1 in real work.
- Benchmarks show Astra improving but not off-trend.
His conclusion: real AGI won't need squinting or Jensen's approval — results will speak for themselves.
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