People & DiscourseGary MarcusStatement

Marcus writes Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall for Nautilus

Wrote Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall for Nautilus — argued that scaling laws are not universal laws like gravity but merely observations that may not hold forever

Why it matters

"Hitting a wall" became the stock phrase of scaling skepticism

Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”

Officialnautil.ushttps://nautil.us/deep-learning-is-hitting-a-wall-238440/

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