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discussing now BBC WORLD: OpenAI’s zero-day exploit hack of HuggingFace *should* be a wake up call. Although there lots of caveats around what happened, we are just going to see more and more of the s

If I had a nickel for every snide but underinformed person who failed to distinguish between pure LLMs and neurosymbolic AI I would be a billionaire. @GaryMarcus Hold on Gary, I thought these LLMs wer

new job posting this morning from OpenAI Florida sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, accusing its ChatGPT platform of harming children by providing information to school shooters, offering guidance on

OpenAI’s zero-day exploit hack of HuggingFace *should* be a wake up call. Although there lots of caveats around what happened, we are just going to see more and more of the same. We have no guarantees

Domesticated, not feral: Why evolvable AI is not yet a Darwinian threat Writing in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), three heavyweights in AI and evolutionary biology criticized

Great article. I love the 'CERN for AI' idea from Gary Marcus, and also the recent frontier standards body article from Demis Hassabis feels less like competing proposals than two halves of the same i

Nice to see someone around here actually understand the technical details. (The vast majority of the attacks on me come from people who don’t.) And the probabilistic next-token critics were correct ab

OpenAI and Anthropic execs sounded the alarm about the rise of cheap AI, particularly from China, suggesting they will lead to a “dystopian” AI future and present unacceptable security risks if no reg

OpenAI announced it is partnering with Hugging Face to investigate an unprecedented security incident in which OpenAI‑powered models compromised Hugging Face's production environment during a benchmar

this is important and true. and if you don’t understand it you don’t really understand what’s going on. @GaryMarcus Yes — model makers quietly went from benchmarking LLMs to benchmarking LLM+harness,

Welcome to the new Cold War. 🇨🇳 wow. China is drafting rules to stop its most advanced AI and chip designs from reaching the West. Regulators at the Ministry of Commerce have asked Alibaba, ByteDance

Amid all the competing concerns about AI, including geopolitical tensions, the risks of unemployment, cybercrime, and disinformation, and the complexities of open-source, to say nothing of the risk of

🦔Goldman Sachs' trading desk said there are 'signs of panic' among investors lending money to AI companies. Oracle is the clearest example. S&P cut Oracle's credit rating to one notch above junk, mean

*None* of the four of us believe that LLMs on their own are sufficient for AGI. Key people in AI worth following • François Chollet —> @fchollet • Yann LeCun —-> @ylecun • Gary Marcus —-> @GaryMarcus

“I asked a few AI researchers whether they could name any other real-world software that scales so poorly. None of them could think of any. Even outside the world of software, it’s hard to find a comp

“one 80% price cut ends OpenAI and Anthropic” possibly overstated but directionally correct. Everyone is debating the price of tokens. The bigger question is why they keep getting cheaper. As AI syste

This AI recursive self improvement (RSI) paper shows no sign of fast takeoff. The AI model advances at about [Intelligence]^0.075, or the the 13th root of input intelligence [1,2]. That means the inte

I want to have this in writing so I can refer back to this tweet before it inevitably becomes a consensus view on twitter and say 'I told you so!' - The mass majority of researchers and academics in d

little by little, OpenAI’s storytelling is falling apart. my 2023 projection that they would someday be viewed as the WeWork of AI is looking stronger by the day. OpenAI is on pace to miss its own fiv

multiple such incidents have been reported. a clear reminder that current AI cannot be trusted. in racing these techniques ahead, we are asking for trouble GPT-5.6 Sol just deleted my whole production

so on-brand >be openai >release gpt 5.6 sol >max thinking budgets, full psycho >benchmark results take few days to roll in >“best model ever” >reviews locked in >4 days later >silently nerf it >nobody

Hit my Claude and Copilot limits three times in each of the last three days Of course a friendly prompt popped up suggesting I either buy more credits or upgrade my plan Simply switched to Gemini for

For almost two decades people like @YLeCun and @geoffreyhinton dumped on me for saying we need symbols in addition to deep learning. But that’s exactly what loop engineering is: adding symbols to deep

Gary Marcus argues that the engineering and infrastructure surrounding large language models are more critical to their practical success than the models themselves. This reflects his broader perspect

breaking: company built on stolen IP and lies allegedly steals more IP “OpenAI’s nascent hardware business now rests on the shakiest of foundations, rotten to its core by its illegal reliance on misap

In a hotel room in northeast Nigeria, I opened a leading AI chatbot, turned my laptop toward a former Boko Haram commander, and asked if he'd used it. He nodded. 'You type in the question… like 'How c

Maybe @GaryMarcus is on to something… The Branching Dendrite Secret Behind Human Cognitive Superiority | Neuroscience News Summary: Researchers have discovered that the fundamental building blocks of

One of the biggest threats to US innovation isn’t just research funding - it’s losing the next generation of scientists. Phd admissions at leading research universities fell 15% this year. Scientific

reminds me of the time Greg Brockman personally downloaded YouTube videos for training purposes, as reported in NYT. 🦔Apple is suing OpenAI for systematic trade secret theft weeks before the IPO. The

Sam Altman should be in prison. But if we can’t have that, I’ll settle for him being a broke pariah. OpenAI hardware chief Tang Tan allegedly helped coach recruits on how to evade Apple’s data securit

The New York Times and several news outlets are accusing OpenAI of hiding its ability to search its AI training data and output logs for more than two years during an ongoing copyright lawsuit: • The

This is a very important observation. AI is not adopting the language and shaping it to fit its known ideas. It has no known ideas. It is repeating patterns found in the language. super interesting -

„Language models model language“ is going to be my quote of the week … maybe I print a T shirt for the next conference. super interesting - and a reminder that language models model language and not i

nope! OpenAI would not have the nerve. Hey @GaryMarcus, quick question. Did you get months of early access to OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol like every AI influencer on X apparently did? Asking because their re

super interesting - and a reminder that language models model language and not ideas per se. also a stark example of how easily LLMs can (as a consequence) be influenced by propaganda. Asking ChatGPT

The anthropomorphization of this one is off the charts. Why does @AnthropicAI do this? It is intellectually lazy. Unscientific. New Anthropic research: A global workspace in language models. Of everyt

AI debt financing is on an insane trajectory, per @SemiAnalysis_: Nvidia GPU Debt Backstop Unleashes the AI Project Trinity: Capital, Offtake and Datacenters Over 7T AI debt by 2029, There can be no N

If you care about AI, and want a nuanced view, you should watch this. I promise it will be worth your time. An excellent video from the @WorldSciFest featuring @GaryMarcus , in which he discusses—amon

new @WSJ editorial board piece on 'The Socialist Temptation of Sam Altman' highlights dangers of politicization of AI, regulatory capture, & bailouts. 'The larger harm will be to the U.S. economy if i

OpenAI just asked the US government to take a 5% stake in the company. The pitch: give every citizen a share in the profits of AI. The problem: AI has no profits. So the real plan is to give every cit

Please please don’t let the Chinese steal from us ,but can we please have a huge copyright exemption? 🙏 Big story here on Anthropic’s moves in Australia, pushing for huge data centre deals and a huge

States are asking for a $1.4 trillion fine of Meta over addicting kids. Basically they are saying Facebook's business model is a result of crime, and all of Mark Zuckerberg's property should be forfei

The AI boom is just not sustainable; Apollo’s Torsten Slok joins the chorus. Torsten Slok argues that the AI boom can only be seen in the hyperscalers and semiconductor companies and that this is caus

The problem with Anthropic's consciousness paper My last post got more attention than I expected, and the question I keep getting is some version of 'okay, so what is actually wrong with the paper?'.

Who is entitled to benefit from major advances in technology—and on what basis? This new paper with @Dr_Atoosa argues that the benefits of technology—including AI—belong to the world in the sense that

⚠️ Wow. The Treasury Department reportedly knows that the massive GenAI build out poses systemic risks to the US financial system – and doesn’t want to acknowledge it publicly. People may talk about t