Gary Marcus on AIs understand

Gary Marcus

Professor of Psychology and Neural Science

create bullshit in the sense that they [...] mimic the general thing...they fake their way through everything

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AIs understand

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AI Verified The quote clearly implies opposition to the statement. Saying AIs “mimic” and “fake their way through everything” indicates the author thinks they produce output without genuine understanding. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified Against: describing AIs as producing "bullshit," "mimic[king] the general thing," and "fak[ing] their way through everything" strongly implies they only simulate understanding rather than genuinely understand. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified The Newsweek article at the provided URL was published on November 20, 2025 and contains the sentence beginning "create bullshit in the sense that they" and ending "they fake their way through everything," followed by "argues Marcus," which directly attributes the quote to Gary Marcus. Your stored excerpt uses [...] for omitted words and is otherwise faithful, and the stored author, date, and source URL are correct. ([newsweek.com](https://www.newsweek.com/nw-ai/the-bittersweet-forrest-gump-like-world-of-ai-according-to-gary-marcus-11061818)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AGI could quickly lead to superintelligence

Plot the same improvements on a linear y-axis and you get steady incremental gains, impressive but not the hockey stick that triggered the panic. [...] We don't have evidence that Mythos is actually an important step towards broad superintelligence.

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Ban autonomous lethal weapons

The White House and people at the top of the Pentagon seem to treat it as magic, whereas those who are actually building it realize that it hallucinates, it makes mistakes, stupid errors of reasoning. And if you put that into production, into practic...

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Create a global institute for AI, similar to CERN

I have talked about having something like a CERN [European Organization for Nuclear Research] for AI, which might focus on AI safety. In some industries, we know how to make reliable [products], usually only in narrow domains. One example is bridges:...

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