ClaimsGary Marcus

“The ultimate AI systems are going to have memory capabilities of machines, not people.”

Gary Marcus, interviewee 20 September 2019 Gary Marcus on Why AI Needs a Reboot (Psychology Today)

Prediction AI capabilities

The ultimate AI systems will have the memory capabilities of machines rather than of people.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

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

Reasoning

'Ultimate AI systems' has no horizon and cannot be tested.

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Gary Marcus, “The ultimate AI systems will have the memory capabilities of machines rather than of people.” (said 20 September 2019). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_63152aa8a98d, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_63152aa8a98d

This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.

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