Gary Marcus

My concerns are we're all in on a particular technology that I think is inelegant, harmful, not where we should wind up and being abused by the people that are using it.

So I want AI to succeed, but I think we wound up down this really dangerous path.

So you think about the Star Trek computer.

You ask it a question, it gives you an answer that you can count on.

Presumably, it's not done to sort of wreck society.

It's done to help people.

Well, what we actually have is everybody running around with LLMs, which are inherently unreliable.

They're unpredictable.

They can't be aligned to human values.

And they're being run by companies that don't seem to really give a shit about the consequences for what they're building for society.

It's like a nightmare for those of us who have worked in AI to suddenly see what we're building be used in so many bad ways and with people really not caring about

You know, we should want a more reliable technology that we can really count on that is compatible with humanity.

You know, five years ago, that didn't seem out of the question.

Five years ago, the field was healthy.

It was considering lots of different things.

It wasn't driven so much by money but by intellectual curiosity.

How do you make a machine that's intelligent?

And everything changed when people started to realize that there might be money to be made.

It's still not clear that there actually is money to be made, by the way, right?

And I'm sure we'll get into that because we have very similar views about that.