Szegedy digs up Gary Marcus's deleted 2022 AI bet: "I wonder what he thinks now"
ChrSzegedy · x · 2026-10-07
DeepMind researcher Christian Szegedy resurfaced a screenshot from an October 2022 thread (originated by MC Hammer, now deleted) in which Gary Marcus made a bet about AI progress. Szegedy implies recent model advances have not aged well for Marcus's position, noting his saved screenshots are now the only record since the original thread was deleted.
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