Given chip costs, profits from LLMs will be elusive.
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
Open-ended prediction about elusive profits with no horizon.
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Gary Marcus, “Given chip costs, profits from LLMs will be elusive.” (said 9 November 2024). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_bdabc6ec4c6b, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_bdabc6ec4c6b
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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