Gary Marcus: my 3-year-old LLM predictions on moats and price wars all came true
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-11-05
Gary Marcus fired back at critics calling him "correct on nothing," replaying his record: over three years ago he argued companies like OpenAI would struggle to profit from LLMs, that there was no technical moat, others would catch up, and price wars would follow — claiming he was first to say so and that it all came true. He also says he anticipated hallucinations for 25 years and the need for (neuro)symbolic elements in neural networks, now routine. He wonders whether his critics are ignorant or paid to lie about him.
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