About Gary Marcus's skepticism that ChatGPT understands, e.g. a robot tidying a room.
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About Gary Marcus's skepticism that ChatGPT understands, e.g. a robot tidying a room.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
There is an enormous difference between ChatGPT being able to put words in the right order and a robot being able to act out the intent behind those words.
It’s like the difference between ELIZA and a self-driving car. The Turing test fails to take into account that words are cheap for computers but interacting in an environmental context is not.