Gary Marcus: OpenAI's Astra is amazing but vastly oversold
Gary Marcus argues that OpenAI's internally-tested model Astra is impressive but that claims of AGI are based on the fallacy of composition. He cites examples of prominent figures overstating its implications, including Elon Musk citing it as evidence of the Singularity.
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