indeed literally a trillion dollar argument
Gary Marcus discusses arguments surrounding trillion-dollar implications, likely related to AI development, regulation, or economic impacts given his expertise in artificial intelligence and cognitive
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Gary Marcus discusses arguments surrounding trillion-dollar implications, likely related to AI development, regulation, or economic impacts given his expertise in artificial intelligence and cognitive
arXiv:2606.26588v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A central challenge in deploying learned robot policies is inference-time behavior steering: redirecting a policy at test time to satisfy user preferenc
June has been a dark month for the US generative AI industry, between hamfisted US policy and the transition to cheaper Chinese AI models. And then there is the delay of the OpenAI IPO. Is that the co
arXiv:2606.27023v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) applied to Medical Visual Question Answering (VQA) tend to produce overconfident outputs regardless of actual
arXiv:2606.26179v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While WGS-based AMR prediction has reached high accuracy, existing models lack a mechanism to ground neural attributions in established biological pat
Gary Marcus argues that $SPCX exhibits high volatility because it functions as a meme stock tied to a rocket company, with its price movements driven by sentiment and social media enthusiasm rather th
arXiv:2606.26647v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D/2D registration serves as a cornerstone technique in surgical navigation. Traditional iterative optimization algorithms suffer from low efficiency an
arXiv:2606.26171v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent image generation models achieve impressive quality in single-image synthesis, but often fail to maintain consistency across sequential outputs,
arXiv:2209.01754v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The empirical risk minimization approach to data-driven decision making requires access to training data drawn under the same conditions as th
arXiv:2606.18195v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) has proven effective for post-training large language models (LLMs), yet its application to diffusion LLMs (dLLMs
arXiv:2606.26497v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bayesian filtering of partially and noisily observed dynamical systems seeks to infer the evolving conditional distribution of the state of a dynamical
arXiv:2509.20008v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Penetration testing, the simulation of cyberattacks to identify security vulnerabilities, presents a sequential decision-making problem well-suited
arXiv:2606.27163v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: I describe my solution to the LeHome Challenge 2026, an ICRA 2026 competition on bimanual garment folding. The system placed 1st of 62 teams in the on
arXiv:2602.08275v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Elucidating the language-brain relationship requires bridging the methodological gap between the abstract theoretical frameworks of linguistic
arXiv:2606.27192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The prevalent dual-branch paradigm, i.e., training a side network to encode visual conditions and fusing its intermediate-layer features to a frozen pre
arXiv:2606.26451v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automatic singing quality assessment (SQA) requires evaluating lyrical correctness and musical fidelity while handling expressive variations. However,
arXiv:2606.26595v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enhancing the analysis of service feedback is essential for public sector organizations, particularly tax administrations, where trust and compliance de
arXiv:2601.03388v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Earlier research has shown that metaphors influence human decision-making, raising the question of whether metaphors also influence large lang
arXiv:2606.27019v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Unigram tokenizer uses an elegant representation which makes it straightforward to edit vocabularies, but its training is comparatively heavy and co
arXiv:2603.19864v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Penetration testing, the practice of simulating cyberattacks to identify vulnerabilities, is a complex sequential decision-making task that is inher
arXiv:2606.26795v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video Diffusion Models (VDMs) is constrained by immense computational costs. While offline calibration-based acceleration suffers from calibration dat
arXiv:2606.26144v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speaker diarization, the task of determining 'who spoke when' in a multi-speaker recording, is a critical component in applications such as meeting tr
arXiv:2505.23527v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modern reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms have found success by using powerful probabilistic models, such as transformers, energy-based models,
arXiv:2606.26201v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning long-horizon humanoid loco-manipulation poses a dual challenge: it requires not only the robust execution of meta-skills but also their seamles
arXiv:2606.26790v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Outcome-based reinforcement learning provides a stable optimization backbone for language agents, but its sparse trajectory-level rewards provide little
arXiv:2606.26839v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning robust navigation policies directly from visual observations remains a fundamental challenge in vision-based robotic navigation. In end-to-en
This post likely discusses how Orwellian tactics—such as propaganda, doublespeak, and manipulation of language—are being employed in contemporary contexts, possibly relating to AI, technology, or poli
arXiv:2512.03704v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-context dialogue systems suffer from state inertia, where models over-attend to history and fail to adapt to evolving intents. We demonstrate t
arXiv:2606.27144v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable action generation for multi-stage robotic manipulation remains challenging for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. While existing flow-matchin
arXiv:2512.17621v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved notable progress in computational pathology (CPath), the gigapixel scale and spatial heterogeneity
arXiv:2606.27373v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recently, self-evolving large multimodal models (LMMs) have received attention for improving visual reasoning in a purely unsupervised setting. However,
People want jobs, not subsidies: Taxing corporations to fund programs is usually controversial and partisan - but when it comes to AI job displacement voters are shockingly left wing. It's genuinely e
people with advanced degrees who can’t distinguish between pure LLMs (which is what I critiqued in 2022) and LLMs enhanced with neurosymbolic techniques (which is what I championed in 2022) disappoint
arXiv:2606.26694v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent game world models can synthesize visually plausible, action-conditioned rollouts. However, their interaction behaviors often remain limited to ex
arXiv:2606.26858v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a prominent framework for developing driving experts in autonomous vehicles. However, most existing RL-based expe
arXiv:2606.13755v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We argue that aligning AI to aggregated human preferences is the wrong target. With current technology, one can train AIs to share the values
arXiv:2606.26741v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humanoid motion imitation requires not only accurate perception of human kinematics but also faithful reproduction of physical interactions with the e
arXiv:2606.27287v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to screen and rank job applicants, creating incentives for candidates to strategically manipulate alg
arXiv:2606.26313v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a hierarchical control framework using model predictive control (MPC) and reinforcement learning (RL) for active roll control to man
arXiv:2509.07295v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unified multimodal models (UMMs) unify visual understanding and generation within a single architecture. However, conventional training relies
Gary Marcus shares an actual REI advertisement as a follow-up to previous discussion about flawed bicycle examples, crediting Oren Etzioni for the reference. The post appears to contrast a real-world
arXiv:2603.05448v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Contact-rich micromanipulation in microfluidic flow is challenging because small disturbances can break pushing contact and induce large later
arXiv:2606.26476v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Warm-started diffusion samplers accelerate iterative inference, but it is rarely clear which part of the pipeline carries the gain. We study extbf{ret
arXiv:2606.26175v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) for robotic manipulation often requires manually designing a dense reward function, which is difficult to tune and often fra
arXiv:2606.26955v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Intraoral scanning is widely used for digital optical impressions in prosthodontic, implant, and orthodontic treatment, but full-arch and long-span scan
arXiv:2606.26997v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) post-training for reasoning increasingly relies on reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), where models lear
arXiv:2509.22259v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study the extent to which rotary position encodings (RoPE), a recent transformer position encoding algorithm broadly adopted in large langu
arXiv:2606.27355v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study whether pre-deployment evaluation rollouts can be reused to supervise policy selection. Robot teams routinely smoke test candidate vision-langu
This article discusses using Ray and Anyscale's distributed computing platform to scale the evaluation of robot control policies across multiple simulations in parallel. It likely covers techniques fo
arXiv:2606.26369v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scoring functions are used to represent the relevance of individual documents. In modern information retrieval or recommendation systems, they are oft
arXiv:2606.27009v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent large language model (LLM) loops, for example a Writer that drafts and a Critic that revises, are almost always terminated by a fixed iterat
arXiv:2606.26617v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scaling laws describe how learning performance varies with model size, data size, and compute. While recent theoretical work has established scaling law
arXiv:2606.26466v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multilingual large language models often produce inconsistent reasoning and answers for semantically equivalent prompts in different languages. Prior wo
arXiv:2508.03247v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Prior clinical psychology research shows that Western individuals with depression tend to report psychological symptoms, while Eastern individuals r
This article argues that increasing computational scale alone cannot address fundamental accuracy and reliability problems in AI systems, suggesting that AI development requires solutions beyond raw c
arXiv:2606.26872v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent online reinforcement learning has substantially improved image editing quality. However, existing Flow-GRPO-style methods usually rely on a singl
SPCX - SPACEX BOND SELLOFF DEEPENS SpaceX's 25 billion bond sale is suffering unusually steep losses, with paper losses exceeding $300 million. Traders say fast-money investors may be exiting, while c
Gary Marcus comments on significant losses in $SPCX stock, noting that investors who purchased at 225 experienced approximately one-third losses within two weeks as the stock fell below 150. The post
arXiv:2606.27032v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Energy trading decisions depend not only on current market prices, but also on expected future market conditions, and operational constraints. This ma
arXiv:2606.26200v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern machine learning systems have outgrown their origins as isolated predictive constructs, evolving into complex socio-technical architectures tha