ClaimsGary Marcus

“Within a decade, maybe much less, the focus of AI will move from a pure focus on scaling large language models to a focus on integrating them with a wide range of other techniques.”

Gary Marcus, author 25 December 2022 What to Expect When You're Expecting … GPT-4 (Marcus on AI)

Prediction AI capabilities

Within a decade, maybe much less, AI's focus will shift from pure scaling of large language models to integrating them with other techniques.

Not yet due The date it refers to has not come.

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

Reasoning

deadline 2032 is after 2026-11-04

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Gary Marcus, “Within a decade, maybe much less, AI's focus will shift from pure scaling of large language models to integrating them with other techniques.” (said 25 December 2022). Verdict: not yet due. Reliability API, claim c_9b64aa625eba, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_9b64aa625eba

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

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