Gary Marcus: Today's AI systems are like planes with cardboard stabilizers — inherently hard to control
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-29
AI critic Gary Marcus likened current AI systems to airplanes with stabilizers made of cardboard. His point: these systems aren't "inhabited by demons," and better pilots (engineering fixes) can only compensate a little — the architecture itself is inherently hard to control and will often crash. The post links to his fuller argument, continuing his long-standing critique that LLM reliability issues stem from the underlying design rather than surface-level tuning.
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