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Wow. This is worth watching, might have huge impact. @SenWarren makes some valid points, and the SEC owes her public answers Sen. Warren calls on SEC to delay SpaceX IPO @CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/202

absolutely correct @GaryMarcus I've recently learned not to believe anything that anyone says anymore when it comes to AI companies. They're all competing to win against each other while exploiting, s

Anthropic didn’t just add guardrails to make Mythos safer; they added guardrails to protect their own IP. *Their own IP*. They are still as happy as fuck to build their AI on other people’s IP. Intere

Anthropic played the media like a fiddle. From “untold catastrophe” to “check our latest model”, in two months and a day 🙄 (cc @tomfriedman) This is the scary phase of AI — a model deemed so powerful

Gary Marcus likely discusses concerns about the environmental and practical implications of exponentially expanding data center infrastructure across the globe, questioning whether covering Earth's su

Gary Marcus argues that establishing a permanent, locked-in power structure is fundamentally unsafe and harmful to humanity's long-term prospects. The statement appears to be part of a discussion with

@GaryMarcus @Pontifex Specifically that the Pope is a powerful, influential individual serving as head of one of humanity's most enduring institutions who is asserting clearly & unequivocally the prim

Humanity's ability to know, reason, judge, and act well is the foundation of science, democracy, crisis response, & management of AI itself. AI poses serious risks to that foundation. New paper on epi

I have said exactly this before and still believe it to be true this is why the labs are pushing visions of mass unemployment and replacing the white-collar workforce it's not because the models can d

i used to be the only person saying the emperor was wearing no clothes. those days are over. the only people buying SpaceX and OpenAI at list price will be the stragglers who still can’t see it. It de

i would love to see OpenAI take steps around this. how about starting by compensating artists and writers for their work and allowing them control over how their work is used? like Sam promised when w

I'm really not interested in testing a new closed-weight model in the expensive tier. What's the point? I know what will happen: 1. They present the model. 2. The model beats the competition on benchm

Gary Marcus critiques an AI response about bullying, arguing that it exemplifies typical large language model output rather than demonstrating genuine artificial general intelligence (AGI). The post s

me January 2025 @politico, timing slightly off: we may soon see “the largest cyberattack in history, taking down, at least for a little while, some sizeable piece of the world’s infrastructure… genera

This post likely discusses the volatility and unpredictability of financial markets, examining whether gains achieved on one trading day are frequently reversed or lost the following day. Gary Marcus

no Hmm, @GaryMarcus , do you think they’d be able to achieve *any* of these goals? 😁 “Currently at OpenAI we have three main goals… 1. Build an automated AI researcher. 2. Accelerate the economy. 3. G

Nope. I think the positive press for @pontifex is because the Pope cares about humanity, and the consequence of technology for humanity. And that the tech bros mostly don’t. He’s also sharper on philo

ridiculous oversimplification, from a prominent OpenAI employee no less. does this capture your impression of how the two companies have behaved? The OAI / Anthropic values difference is deeply misund

some news: it turns out 34,000 Instagram accounts got hit by a Meta AI exploit the other day, per internal company docs hackers also used a senior 'Space Force' official's account to post anti-Iran wa

arXiv:2606.07565v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Intelligent scaling of microservices in cloud platforms is crucial for mitigating escalating compute costs while avoiding service disruptions. Current s

This is actually a pretty measured bet compared to spending of the U.S companies. OpenAI alone is about twice as much. If things falls apart, the US will be hit harder. 🚨BREAKING: CHINA IS AGI-PILLED

This quote from OpenAI is telling. Translation: We have a rapidly closing window to get this IPO out the door before the bubble bursts, our CFO doesn't want to go through with it because our books are

Gary Marcus, a prominent AI researcher and critic, posted a teaser statement on X about upcoming SpaceX developments, likely referring to significant announcements or milestones in the company's space

what constitutes reasoning in AI is a critical debate. i hope that @dwarkesh_sp will respond. what does this even mean, @dwarkesh_sp, “the real deal”? is it even a falsifiable conjecture? what’s the e

what does this even mean, @dwarkesh_sp, “the real deal”? is it even a falsifiable conjecture? what’s the evidence? and if you can agree that “If you ask an LLM a question it can't answer, sometimes it

Why are governments in the dark about the threat posed by superintelligent AI? Because the industry is spending to keep them there. In ABC's new Four Corners documentary, ControlAI's US Director Conno

Gary Marcus highlights interesting contrasts or contradictions, likely related to AI, technology, or cognitive science based on his expertise in these areas. The post format suggests he's pointing out

Gary Marcus, a prominent AI researcher and critic, posted a commentary suggesting that foolish investors and those with excessive capital will soon experience significant financial losses, likely refe

A pause continues to be utter and complete nonsense and it always will be. 1. Let's make planes safer by not making planes! 2. What exactly happens in a 'pause'? Do labs get to keep working and we all

An entire industry is being propped up by math that is literally insane. SPCX: Well, even Jensen the Great Huang started having math problems, or caught some kind of virus when he traveled to China on

further evidence that people shoveling money into AI are either bad at math or blind to risk Striking paper from Wharton. The big conclusion: AI must increase productivity 2.7x -- and quickly -- or te

Gary Marcus argues that large language models based on transformers quickly reach their limitations, prompting developers to add external tools as workarounds, while neurosymbolic AI—which combines ne

Historic: when the President of the United States can’t provide a single bit of specific concrete evidence to back up his serious charges, and has a temper tantrum when pressed. Trump has a meltdown a

Hypers got hype but this is an embarrassingly bad piece of analysis that sets up a false dichotomy and ignores the fact that Terence Tao also signed the Leiden Declaration. 🤦‍♂️ This post is unavailab

Gary Marcus, a prominent AI researcher and critic, is considering writing a book titled 'Seven Lies About AI' that would debunk common misconceptions about artificial intelligence, with a planned sequ

i expect value for money to increase over time as competitive pressures force providers to lower prices. but in the short time, looks like the opposite may be happening: Does a token buy you more or l

🤣 I have to think that anyone who buys the SpaceX IPO just isn’t that good at math. Or history. “Garnering that almost 600x increase means hiking sales 50% a year, on average, for a decade.” 👇🏼 https:

I will start to take Geoff Hinton seriously again (I used to and don’t anymore) when - radiologists actually start losing jobs - he acknowledges that LLMs do sometimes effectively memorize things - he

I would trust @eastdakota over Vinod Khosla any day of the week; it’s not even close. One is a man of integrity, with compassion for other human beings; the other isn’t. Uhhh… your memory is failing,

in hindsight, this was chump change New: Microsoft and OpenAI plotting new 'Stargate' supercomputer that could cost $100 billion. An incredible look at what it will take to build the next generation o

✅ July 2024: “public sentiment towards AI will turn sharply negative. In the end, AI leaders will be viewed like cigarette industry leaders.” Prediction: @a16z’s meddling will backfire massively. US w

many young researchers think it might be good wipe out humanity. terrifying article. who are ceding control of our planet to? Part 1 of my 'Pro-Human Manifesto' is now out! I'd love to know what you t

More people need to listen to what Gary is saying here. Many, MANY of these talking heads who suck the oxygen out of the room with just their ego, say things that are so wildly wrong, that its misguid

My own personal experience w Khosla is described here: The legendary investor Vinod Khosla is in the news because of questions about his integrity. I want to share my own experience: he lied viciously

No. Not by itself. Sergey Brin is absolutely wrong. Transformers by themselves are not “sufficient” for AGI. Nobody uses transformers on their own anymore. Everybody is supplementing them tools and ha

Gary Marcus comments on SpaceX's valuation, suggesting that rational investors would negotiate below the asking price for the company, likely critiquing either the company's financial metrics, market