ClaimsGary Marcus

“We will not see artificial general intelligence this year, despite claims by Elon Musk to the contrary.”

Gary Marcus, Substack author 1 January 2025 25 AI Predictions for 2025, from Marcus on AI (Marcus on AI)

Prediction AI timelines and forecasting

Artificial general intelligence will not be achieved in 2025.

Resolved true The record shows it happened or was so.

Prediction: Statements about events outside the person's control, checked once they fell due: did they come true?

What would count as true or false

Judge at the end of 2025. TRUE: no AI system released or demonstrated in 2025 is regarded as artificial general intelligence by broad expert consensus. Claims by a single company or executive, or marketing language, do not count as achievement. FALSE: by the end of 2025 there is broad expert and community consensus that some system achieved AGI during 2025. MOSTLY FALSE: a 2025 system is widely, though not by consensus, accepted as AGI, with substantial expert support and independent evaluations backing the claim. This is a single-outcome prediction, so MIXED does not apply unless the expert community is genuinely evenly divided.

Set before the research began.

Evidence (4)

  1. E1 ARC Prize 2025 Results and Analysis | ARC Prize ARC Prize · 5 December 2025

    “So, do we have AGI? Not yet.”
  2. E2 No AGI by 2025 — Gary Marcus predictionscorecard.com

    “No system recognized as AGI appeared in 2025; by late 2025 even leading figures such as Ilya Sutskever said scaling had stalled and new research was needed, putting human-level learning years away.”
  3. E3 2025: The Year in Review gonzoml (Substack) · 6 January 2026

    “The AGI/ASI hype seems to have deflated somewhat.”
  4. E4 Status of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI): October 2025 ETC Journal · 17 October 2025

    “As of October 17, 2025, artificial general intelligence (AGI) remains a rapidly evolving but still unachieved goal.”

Reasoning

ARC Prize's 2025 results analysis, published on 2025-12-05, asks whether AGI has arrived and answers "Not yet" [E1]. An independent prediction tracker reports that no system recognized as AGI appeared in 2025 [E2]. A year-in-review published in January 2026 says the AGI hype had deflated somewhat [E3]. None of the evidence shows broad expert agreement that any system reached AGI during 2025, so the prediction resolves true.

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Gary Marcus, “Artificial general intelligence will not be achieved in 2025.” (said 1 January 2025). Verdict: resolved true. Reliability API, claim c_502dc257432c, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_502dc257432c

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  2. Mostly true Prediction 31 March 2024
    “But will we see a mindblowing GPT this year? I doubt it.”

    Marcus doubted that a mindblowing GPT model would be released in 2024.

  3. Resolved false Prediction 14 December 2021
    “my bet: hybrid models will pull ahead next year.”

    Gary Marcus bet that hybrid (neurosymbolic) AI models would pull ahead in 2022.

  4. Resolved true Prediction 20 September 2019
    “I don’t think it’s going to happen in the next five years.”

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  5. Mostly true Prediction 27 July 2025
    “Some of its advice will be head-scratchingly bad.”

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