Post #3286115
2026-06-11 08:25 UTC
Gary Marcus has been spamming out sneers at Google, OpenAI and Anthropic over the last 24h. He’s right but he’s such a knob about it. The first of his posts was a whopper where he just quoted himself predicting things correctly from like a year ago. It is nice to feel vindicated and say “I told you so” but it’s way too much. It reminds me of Juergen Schmidhuber who was famous on x-twitter for shouting “I ALREADY INVENTED THIS 30 YEARS AGO” every time a new notable paper came out of an AI Lab and whose name became a verb for “claiming credit for something”
He keeps going on about how we will have AGI but it won’t be via transformers. Dude why do we even need or want AGI?
He comes so close to being “one of the good guys” and then shows his true colours every single time.
Replies (3)
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@Architeuthis@awful.systems 2026-06-11 12:25
Dude why do we even need or want AGI? To solve biology and physics and live forever amongst the stars, obvs. Or to allow a tiny elite to treat the rest of humanity like cattle since they no longer depend on them for physical and mental labour.
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@istewart@awful.systems 2026-06-11 15:42
Dude why do we even need or want AGI? We need salvation but it won’t come via rapture this decade
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@lurker@awful.systems 2026-06-13 03:22
Dude why do we even need or want AGI? MONAAYYY Gary’s been on a sneering spree this whole week. While good for him and everything, I truly could not care less for his neurosymbolic AI rambles and mostly read the stuff where he dunks on the current state of AI