Nonsense on Stilts
A blog post by Gary Marcus, Marcus on AI, dated 12 June 2022. date on the post, 12 June 2022.
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- Nonsense on Stilts Marcus on AI (garymarcus.substack.com), the author's newsletter · published 2022-06-12 · Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 62fc6d2c7525c77f0f2f04d97619fdcfafba95699188ca9997796543bf5831b2). Current page as served on 2026-10-29; dated 12 June 2022 on the page. The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31; the bytes differ, and the check compared the quoted passages.
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- Language models lack agency or understandingMarcus's post of June 2022 states that LaMDA and GPT-3 only match patterns drawn from statistical databases of human language, that what they utter does not mean anything, and that LaMDA does not try to connect to the world but to be the best autocomplete it can.2022-06-12 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Language models lack agency or understanding: propositions page →
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