Comment by bravura

I read this article as less of "AGI is impossible" and more of "it's possible to find a better architecture than the transformer, and we are at a point where we need to focus more on research than LLM hype."

But they are, of course, not saying it's impossible to make a better AI.

What has Gary Marcus done to be considered "The wisest people in your field"? Looking at his Wikipedia page, he seems like a professor who wrote a couple books. I don't see why I should privilege his view over people at OpenAI (who make functional and innovative products rather than books).

Even in the absence of data I think our lived experience is that this observation is true. I like it.

He says the wall is possible, so he is right?

I guess he wasn’t a mathematician.