debugging
2 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 13, 2022 by Gary Marcus · across every show →
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Sep 13, 2022 bearish
Marcus: No established methodology exists for debugging chatbots or autonomous vehicles
“None of these chatbot systems are well-debugged. Nobody knows how to debug them, in fact. And so both the problem with GPT-III and with driverless cars is we don't actually have a methodology even for debugging it.”
May 7, 2025 bearish
Marcus: AI coding assistants regurgitate public code but cannot debug software
“That's their sweet spot is regurgitation. And so Yeah, they can build the stuff that's out there, but if you want to code things in the real world, you usually want to code something that's new, and these systems have a lot of problems with that. And another r…”