If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can't Read?
An excerpt from Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis's book Rebooting AI, published by Wired on 10 September 2019.
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- If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can't Read? Wired (wired.com) · published 2019-09-10 · The excerpt as served by Wired, dated 10 September 2019 and marked as adapted from Rebooting AI (Pantheon, 2019). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated. Retrieved at admission on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 de6db7699906d03aa1f8ff8ce589bd6dd9a4f79cb2454a80a74c18f8e21d2977).
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- Language models lack agency or understandingMarcus and Davis's excerpt of September 2019 states that GPT-2 can generate strings of words that sound humanlike without real coherence, framing its text generation as statistics of which words occur together rather than understanding.2019-09-10 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Language models lack agency or understanding: propositions page →
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