Gary Marcus amplifies visual metaphor: LLMs flatten diverse human output into spiky weirdness
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-10-15
Gary Marcus retweets Derek Thompson's metaphor that LLMs replace the messy, chaotic, diverse distribution of human output with a narrow, standardized version of intelligence that produces "spiky weirdness." A quoted reply notes this is unsurprising if you understand how gradient descent works.
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