Gary Marcus: doomers, hypsters and frontier labs converge on a misleading AI narrative
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-21
Gary Marcus pushes back on Tristan Harris's claim that "stochastic parrot" talk blinded people to AI progress, arguing doomers, hypsters and frontier lab founders have converged on a misleading narrative: it ignores real gains from symbolic harnesses, tools and code interpreters; unfairly attacks Bender's paper; and overlooks that current harm stems precisely from the stochastic approximation still at the core of hybrid models.
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