Anything that looks like genuine understanding is just an illusion.| The Gradient
The past few days have seen a back-and-forth between Scott Alexander and Gary Marcus on the topic of AI scaling (post1, post2, post3, post4). Specifically, the debate is whether scaled-up language models in the style of GPT-3 will eventually become general intelligences, or whether we will hit some fundamental limits....| jacobbuckman.com