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What I am about to describe ain’t AGI; it’s a sign of a trillion dollar trainwreck. If I had told y...
By @GaryMarcus
85 score
AI Analysis
Marcus delivers extended critique of GPT-5.5's 'goblins' problem - the model inserting the word 'goblins' randomly, requiring hacky system prompt patches. Uses this as evidence that current AI is alchemy, not science, and questions AI safety viability.
What I am about to describe ain’t AGI; it’s a sign of a trillion dollar trainwreck.
If I had told you in 2022 that the 2026 version of GPT (which by the way would only be GPT 5.5 and not GPT-6 or 7 like many people fantasized about) would still have strange quirks like inserting the word “goblins” in random places, y’all would have called me either “crazy” or “a hater” or both.
“Scaling”, you would have shouted. “Deep learning is conquering walls!”, you would have said.
And yet here we are.
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What I am about to describe ain’t AGI; it’s a sign of a trillion dollar trainwreck.
If I had told you in 2022 that the 2026 version of GPT (which by the way would only be GPT 5.5 and not GPT-6 or 7 like many people fantasized about) would still have strange quirks like inserting the word “goblins” in random places, y’all would have called me either “crazy” or “a hater” or both.
“Scaling”, you would have shouted. “Deep learning is conquering walls!”, you would have said.
And yet here we are.
GPT-5.5_issuesAI_alignmentAI_criticismsystem_promptsOpenAI_criticism