The Ledger

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why aren't all 4 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't; assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable

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Marcus: Teslas crashed into multiple emergency vehicles due to vision flaws
“It turns out that Teslas have a problem with stopped vehicles, mostly emergency vehicles, on the side of the road. So they have run into, in the last year, three fire trucks, a tow truck a police car, and so forth.”
Gary Marcus Sep 17, 2019 ▶ 2:13 Rebooting AI // Gary Marcus, Robust AI (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
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Marcus: Autonomous driverless cars can drive in Palo Alto but not Manhattan
“In fact, they can drive in Palo Alto, but they can't drive in Manhattan.”
Gary Marcus Jan 25, 2016 ▶ 2:48 Can A.I. Become More Human? // Gary Marcus, Geometric Intelligence (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
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Marcus: Facebook M relies mostly on human operators rather than AI
“Facebook's new M service, which they have not rolled out at scale has humans on the back end. There's a little bit of AI in there, but it's mostly, ah, human beings, which is why they haven't rolled it out for a billion customers. They don't have enough human …”
Gary Marcus Jan 25, 2016 ▶ 15:59 Can A.I. Become More Human? // Gary Marcus, Geometric Intelligence (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
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Marcus: DeepMind's deep RL required millions of data points per game
“This is what DeepMind used in their systems, and they used a version called deep reinforcement learning. And what they did is they collected billions or, you know, probably millions of data points for each game.”
Gary Marcus Jan 25, 2016 ▶ 14:02 Can A.I. Become More Human? // Gary Marcus, Geometric Intelligence (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
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