Gary Marcus

You're adaptive and so forth.

They're not very adaptive.

But there's another definition of intelligence, which is like, you know, can you play chess?

Then sure, they can, right?

Well, LLMs can't, but other kinds of AI systems do.

Asterisk here, by the way, there are different forms of AI.

You know, my beef is with generative AI, and that's mostly what we're talking about.

Generative AI cannot follow instructions.

Chess computers, you know, purpose-built chess computers actually do follow the rules of chess.

And I have, in some ways, less concern about them.

LLMs are terrible rule followers.

That is one of their weakest points as an intelligence.

You know, another rule would be don't make stuff up.

Like, you know, you can tell an intern, like, don't, you know, write something if you can't fact check it.

Like, just don't, please.

And if you do, I will fire you or I will sue you.

Exactly.

You're going to get fired if you, right.

I mean, that's the other crazy thing about what's going on is like calculators never make mistakes, right?

Yeah.