Gary Marcus: soaring costs of incremental AI gains point to a looming bubble burst
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-11-09
Gary Marcus argues the AI bubble may be near bursting, citing the Huang affair, the "Blue Wave", studies showing unclear productivity gains, rising cost of credit, and new results showing incremental generative AI improvements are becoming prohibitively expensive — a fiscally unsustainable pattern supporting his "deep learning is hitting a wall" thesis.
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