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This is really intellectually dishonest. I have not been arguing that LLM token prices are increasing (though the all you can eat buffet is over), I have been arguing the *opposite*, viz that they wil

What are you investing in? Hopium: Former BlackRock fund manager Ed Dowd on the stock market: 'If 45% of your market cap is AI and there's no profits yet, what are you investing in?' 'You're investing

when sam quotes the bible, you know things aren’t going well for OpenAI one of the quotes i find most inspiring on a hard day: 'Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the re

yes @GaryMarcus Like, is this based on ppl actually buying into Musk's truly unhinged pie-in-the-sky timelines for his fantastical sci-fi aspirations, which seem unlikely to even be technologically fe

You don’t need to be @garymarcus to know which way the wind blows. I would be way more bullish on AI if it actually worked and was actually replacing real humans at scale. Nothing is changing and we’r

Anthropic faces AI spending backlash before IPO https://www.axios.com/2026/06/02/anthropic-ipo-ai-sticker-shock-spending-usage?utm_campaign=mrf-utm_campaign=editorial&utm_source=x&utm_medium=owned_soc

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Em um mercado repleto de euforia e irracionalidade, se deparar com um comentário lógico e racional é como achar um oasis no deserto. Why things will eventually fall apart: 1. Everybody, even Google, s

I have a great idea. I am going to spend a trillion dollars so I can make $10 billion a year in profit, if all goes well. That’s a 1% annual return – IF it works out. Who’s in? Don’t worry about the r

Gary Marcus poses a question to Yann LeCun and Jürgen Schmidhuber about whether automation of AI systems (possibly referring to AI development or reasoning processes) might be feasible, suggesting a d

Gary Marcus argues that SpaceX's valuation is significantly inflated, contending that the company is not worth the trillion-dollar valuations that have been suggested. The critique appears to challeng

NEW: Ahead of the SpaceX IPO, we tracked hundreds of promises that Musk has made over the years (FSD, Mars etc). His success rate is…not good. And it’s getting worse. Some actual data in our months lo

Not convinced that this kind of nationalization by fiat is at all the right way to go (and for that matter don’t expect the current breed of technology to generate trillions), but I am glad that Sande

People who say this kind of thing are completely lost about what I actually said about deep learning, and I would strongly encourage them to read “Deep learning is hitting a wall” (2022). What I said

Remind me, @Elonmusk, was GPT-5 really smarter than the smartest humans? @viktaur27 @Teslarati The rate of improvement from original GPT to GPT-3 is impressive. If this rate of improvement continues,

Gary Marcus discusses the disconnect between venture capital hype surrounding AI's trillion-dollar potential and the practical realities of AI development and market viability. The article likely exam

Thanks everyone for reading! Longer version some additional points on crowd psychology and links to a pair of great new podcasts with the legendary investors @realsteveeisman and @gnoble79 and converg

The persistent and possibly industry-funded campaign to discredit me begins with a fundamental misunderstanding of my work. It’s worth taking the time to understand the issues, if you want to understa

The persistent campaign to discredit me begins with a fundamental misunderstanding of my work. It is worth taking the time to understand the issues, if you want to understand a lot of what is driving

Public opinion has shifted dramatically against data centers over a nine-month period, with a 49-point swing in unfavorable sentiment, reflecting growing political concern about these facilities. This

Things are so chaotic in AI right now that @axios had to specify *which* AI backlash they were referring to! Anthropic faces AI spending backlash before IPO https://www.axios.com/2026/06/02/anthropic-

🚨 Today is a milestone in US AI policy, and an unbelievable moment for me, personally. 🚨 Here’s what I told @senjohnkennedy was the most important policy to implement, at the US Senate in May 2023, an

Gary Marcus observes the unusual linguistic phenomenon of rarely contemplating the plural form of the word 'backlash,' highlighting how certain words are infrequently used in plural despite being gram

Why things will eventually fall apart: 1. Everybody, even Google, seems to be treating AI as if it were some kind of winner take all competition like web search was, in which Google taking over 95% 2.

AI companies wouldn't enslave engineers, or steal chips from Nvidia, or illegally tap a power line. So why, asks @AGSNYT, do they feel entitled to 'a brazen theft of intellectual property' from news o

Current AI is bandaids all the way down; LLMs can’t play nicely with basic tools like databases and knowledge graphs, and you never know what you are going to get. It’s long time to face facts: LLMs h

Elon was right that what OpenAI did in its for profit turn was shameful. But what he is doing with the SpaceX, at the likely expense of many people’s retirement funds, is just as shameful. SpaceX bein

I would say that it is absurd to say that “AI belongs to the people”, when so many companies have worked so hard to develop it, but it is also absurd that Generative AI has basically been built on the

Gary Marcus critiques generative AI by applying the 'insanity' aphorism to highlight repetitive patterns in how these systems operate—suggesting they may be fundamentally limited by repeating the same

Kiss your pensions goodbye, folks May 20 - SpaceX's (SPCX) S-1 filing Ludicrous targeted valuation: 1.8T despite 4.28B loss over last year June 11 - offering price set June 12 - first day of trading /

Neurosymbolic rising! I've wanted to work on deep neurosymbolic integration for a while: if you make an 800k transformer reason *like* a logical solver, you get 100% on sudoku-extreme w. 15m of train

Prediction: Nobody knows when this will all collapse, but 2026 will be remembered in hindsight as the year in which retail investors and index funds were left holding the bag. It's funny how people th

THE DEFINITIVE AI CONVERSATION OF THE YEAR. MUST LISTEN. @JG_Nuke @GaryMarcus @MacrostrategyP https://open.substack.com/pub/georgenoble/p/ai-the-biggest-capital-misallocation-d18?r=35saq&utm_medium=io

“The technology worked. The value didn’t arrive,” Bain concluded in the report. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-06-01/bain-survey-ai-delivers-less-cost-reduction-than-many-firms-predic

This was right five years ago, and still is: “Large scale pretrained models are certainly likely to figure prominently in artificial intelligence for the near future, and play an important role in com

@webisticsdawg @GaryMarcus Personally I think everyone w a 401(k) should be absolutely livid. I'm disgusted by this, it's so brazen. How dare the richest man in the world pick working Americans' pocke

which is NOT new; see this quote from 5 years ago. the fact that all this is still true says a lot. This was right five years ago, and still is: “Large scale pretrained models are certainly likely to

Anyone remember how I said in January 2025 that AI was going to be stumble and be dubbed “too big to fail”, along with cries for bailouts? If that call was correct – which increasingly seems likely, a

Gary Marcus discusses the Pope's understanding and perspective on artificial intelligence, examining statements or positions the religious leader has taken regarding AI technology and its implications

I am absolutely with @GaryMarcus and the Pope on this. (Not something you expect to say everyday). We are not creating beings. Systems don’t exp. grief nor hope, hold a value construct, or the ability

is the word for this “rug pull”? 🚨 SPACEX MAY BE THE BIGGEST INSIDER CASHOUT IN MARKET HISTORY. SpaceX is expected to IPO at a valuation of up to $2 TRILLION. That would instantly make it larger than

Listen, I’m a big “the index is the index” guy, but they are openly looting the coffers. This is 100% fraud. Rule changes for the SpaceX SPCX IPO: Index providers waived the profitability requirement

@ParValue26 @Hedgeye Let’s be clear what this actually is: the administration and the world’s richest man working together to screw over ordinary investors to goose returns on the IPO for the wealthie

serious accusation. does this fit with people’s experience? Is Anthropic altering model performance to force costly upgrades? Chapter Co-Founder and CEO @CobiBGantz outlines a shift his team recently

SpaceX being rammed into indices with no profit requirements, seasoning, and generally looser constraints is economic terrorism. Index trackers will eat the loss when reality catches up and retail inv

Gary Marcus argues that consumer backlash against AI-generated content will be increasingly visceral, particularly in creative fields like fiction, leading to growing demand for 'human-authored' certi