The story also quoted Gary Marcus saying that the public should be skeptical that these technologies will continue to improve so rapidly because researchers tend to focus on the tasks they can make progress on and avoid the ones they can’t. “These systems are still a really long way from truly understanding running prose,”20 he said. When Geoff Hinton read this, he was amused. The quote from Gary Marcus would prove useful, he said, because it could slot into any story written about AI and natural language for years to come. “It has no technical content so it will never go out of date,” Hinton
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