ClaimsGary Marcus

“thinking about the talk I will give tomorrow at #AGI21”

Gary Marcus, author of the post 17 October 2021 Post by @GaryMarcus on X, 2021-10-17 (X)

Promise Their own work or organisation

Gary Marcus will give a talk at the AGI21 conference on 2021-10-18.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Promise: Commitments to the person's or organisation's own future action, with something to deliver: was it delivered?

What would count as true or false

The promise is that Gary Marcus would give a talk at the AGI-21 conference on or about 2021-10-18. True: the AGI-21 programme, a recording, or a contemporaneous report shows he gave a talk (keynote, invited talk or panel presentation) at AGI-21 on 2021-10-18 or a day or so before. Mostly true: he spoke at AGI-21 on time, but in a slightly different format from the one described. Mostly false: he spoke at AGI-21 only on a later day than 2021-10-18. False: the programme or reports show his talk was cancelled or that he did not speak at AGI-21.

Set before the research began.

Evidence (4)

  1. E1 Schedule « AGI-21: SF Bay Area and Virtual, Oct. 15-18, 2021 AGI-21 conference (agi-conf.org)

    “10:45-11:45: Gary Marcus – “Towards a Proper Foundation for Artificial Intelligence””

  2. E2 Schedule « AGI-21: SF Bay Area and Virtual, Oct. 15-18, 2021 AGI-21 conference (agi-conf.org)

    “October 18 7:30-8:00: David Hanson: “Artistic Social Robotics as a Path to Human-AI Co-Evolution and Understanding, Benevolent AGI””

  3. E3 Schedule « AGI-21: SF Bay Area and Virtual, Oct. 15-18, 2021 AGI-21 conference (agi-conf.org)

    “VIDEOS FOR ALL FOUR DAYS OF THE AGI-21 CONFERENCE CAN ALL BE FOUND ON SINGULARITYNET”S YOUTUBE PAGE AT https://www.youtube.com/c/SingularityNET/videos”

  4. E4 AGI-21 Conference Day 2 SingularityNET (YouTube) · 16 October 2021

    “Published: Streamed live on Oct 16, 2021”

Reasoning

The AGI-21 schedule lists a 10:45-11:45 talk by Gary Marcus (E1), but the quoted material does not show which conference day it was on (E1, E2). No evidence item shows the talk was delivered (E3, E4). So the evidence does not settle whether he gave the talk on or about 18 October 2021.

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Gary Marcus, “Gary Marcus will give a talk at the AGI21 conference on 2021-10-18.” (said 17 October 2021). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_6b8bccbbe794, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_6b8bccbbe794

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More promise claims by Gary Marcus

  1. Delivered on time Promise 30 March 2023
    “In a couple weeks, I will be speaking at TED, discussing A(G)I risk—both short term and long – and what to do about it.”

    Gary Marcus will speak at TED about short-term and long-term AI risk and what to do about it, in about two weeks from 2023-03-30.

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