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Gary Marcus argues that Geoff Hinton, rather than Dario Amodei, was the originator of making exaggerated claims about neural networks' impact on employment. This appears to be part of a broader discus

GenAI isn’t good enough to replace millions of employees, so there is basically no way the capex is going to earn out. If AI isn't going to wipe out millions of jobs every year, it has to generate pro

ha ha Geoff Hinton in 2016 completely overhyping where deep learning was at then Geoffrey Hinton explains the coyote test for medical AI: radiology is already over the cliff, it just has not looked do

Hugging Face has just been sued for alleged copyright infringement for hosting & distributing copyrighted images, used for AI training. It's been almost a *year* since I flagged to their CEO that they

If that happens, where does it leave Anthropic and OpenAI? And Oracle, CoreWeave, Nebius, xAI, etc? Fable 5 probably running locally in about two years. That is the projection in this r/LocalLLaMA cha

Gary Marcus reflects on his 2023 prediction that large language models would become commoditized, noting that this outcome is now materializing. The post suggests that LLMs are transitioning from nove

One of the only times I remind people I have a PhD in computational neuroscience is when people without a neuroscience background say their model works 'like the brain.' In these cases, I put on my ne

so much for recursive self improvement, to the degree that it requires scientific taste the other thing im noticing while working on my research projects is how limited these models are GPT-5.5-xhigh

The glorification of insider trading is a disturbing new trend that I’ll never understand Be leopold > wife is chief of staff at Anthropic > get insider info at the dinner table > learn that Anthropic

this is a bit confused. should I unpack it? tl;dr LLMs are already neurosymbolic in its latent space this is the mechanistic explanation for the intuitively obvious 'feel' that the stochastic parrot c

“This study cuts through the optimism surrounding medical AI by showing how easily benchmark success can be mistaken for real readiness. In medical AI, impressive scores are clearly not the same as tr

Trump blockading Cuba into catastrophe should be a much bigger story than it is. Cuba’s electric grid suffered a total collapse Monday as the nation struggles with crumbling infrastructure and a de fa

unconscionable, if these death numbers are even vaguely correct update: https://www.doge-impact.org suggests that the actual number is over 1M; the number below is just USAID related. Money saved: 0 P

Was this deadpan? As if we hadn’t experienced the internet era. Let me re-up: plausible that LLMs will slow down science *today* while *also* destroying the very processes that would eventually lead t

when capex quadruples relative to revenue in five years it just can’t be good. FT: 'It is not yet clear that either [OpenAI or Anthropic] has a sustainable business model. For sure, both have built as

“AI is now costing some companies more than the people it was supposed to replace.” I think AI is in a messy middle phase where usage looks productive, but output remains unclear. Forbes published thi

Gary Marcus argues that Elon Musk's public opposition to democracy reveals important truths about how extreme wealth concentrates power and can lead wealthy individuals to reject democratic principles

LLMs training is opaque to end users and responses can be personalized for industry, locality, individual. The Trump regime openly controls who has access to the latest models. Government control of L

Pop quiz: Can you explain the contrast here, between AI’s coding ability and their less compelling research ability? AI's coding ability has become amazing. But there research ability remains really p

true. a lot of people here just don’t have the historical context. You know what's funny but not funny: If the housing market of 2006 was the AI market of 2026, Charles R Morris would be getting calle

“What has really happened is VC built the wrong AI, you’ll pay a high price for this error with your pension, and nobody will go to jail.” By far the shrewdest and most entertaining analyst of the AI

DOGE deletes itself on July 4th. It will be remembered as a hugely destructive failure. Musk promised 2 trillion in savings. What we got, by DOGE’s own unverified math, was 215 billion. Even that numb

If this doesn’t chill you, I don’t know what will. 😱 “A president with the authority that Trump is now asserting could in theory put the world’s most powerful AI to repressive ends while at the same t

Indeed: if we actually had AGI we would not need forward deployed engineers. Two simultaneous AI narratives right now: 1) You can now do the work of 20 people, learn anything and create anything with

@loujaybee If they are serious and not afraid of a bit of maths, I would recomend starting off by reading : 1) The Algebraic Mind by @GaryMarcus 2) Book of Why by @yudapearl 3) A Guide for Thinking Hu

South Africa became the first country to withdraw a national policy document after officials discovered the text was littered with fake research citations generated by AI https://restofworld.org/2026/

A small tax on every token produced could be transformative, without putting the government into bed with a specific company. And because every token draws on uncompensated contributions from multiple

Altman’s AI safety proposal: bail me out as we badly missed our revenue runway, or i will not be a multi-billionaire Altman’s AI safety proposal: let us win, or everybody loses https://ft.trib.al/UrDI

as expected by whom? 🤔 META: ZUCKERBERG SAYS AI PROGRESS HAS BEEN SLOWER THAN EXPECTED • ZUCKERBERG SAID AI AGENT DEVELOPMENT HAS NOT ACCELERATED AS EXPECTED OVER THE PAST FOUR MONTHS • SAID META'S 20

congrats @yudapearl! Judea Pearl Named AI Pioneer by Boston Global Forum in Honor of America’s 250th Anniversary https://samueli.ucla.edu/judea-pearl-named-ai-pioneer-by-boston-global-forum-in-honor-o

'consensus' can't just built by big tech! let's all be careful of regulatory capture and extreme concentration of power! NEW: Anthropic announces it is drafting a consensus framework with Amazon, Micr

in case you needed more evidence that tokenmaxxing was a stupid idea Meta burns 2.65B a year on AI tokens. at 300K for a Meta engineer, that's enough to pay ~9,000 engineers for a full year. now ask y

Should we be spending literally trillions on a speculative bet when we can’t even solidly document clear positive impact? Great analysis of what we don’t yet know below, by @bencasselman drawing on a

Maria Ressa and Yann Bengio, prominent figures in technology and AI governance, co-authored a significant letter addressing concerns related to the UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI.

Reselling “excess AI processing capacity”: first SPCX, now META. In a rational world these moves would be seen as signs that we have *already* started to overbuild. Boom. $META is developing a cloud s

That day when @elonmusk starts to sound a bit like my 2023 TED Talk, which called for “a global, nonprofit organization to regulate the tech for the sake of democracy and our collective future.” Good

Another case of what I call The Klarna Effect. 🦔Ford admitted it had to rehire engineers after replacing them with AI systems that couldn't do the job. The company's VP of hardware engineering said th

Gary Marcus discusses 'The Klarna Effect,' examining how AI adoption by companies like Klarna has led to significant workforce reductions despite increased productivity. The post explores the broader

GLM 5.2 is the ultimate culmination of what i have argued here for the last three years. no technical moat and widely known formula -) convergence -) price wars -) small or negative margins. GLM-5.2 i

hard to see how anyone makes much money from all this in the long run. more like the airline industry; very small margins and big expenses pouring trillions in probably wasn’t wise China’s AI playbook

This article examines how coordinated AI systems could be weaponized to undermine democratic processes through large-scale disinformation campaigns and manipulation. Written by prominent AI researcher

wild. Google reportedly limited Meta’s use of Gemini due to a shortage of compute resources. — FT Google is in a position where it can’t sell Gemini to Meta as freely as it might want to. Compute rema

🚨 BREAKING: Anthropic and US Govt insiders expect the administration's limits on Fable 5 could be lifted as soon as this coming week, per Axios. The Pentagon and National Security Agency still have to

Gary’s analysis is pretty much spot on as ever. This is such a worrying development People are not getting how significant this news – The White House delaying GPT 5.6 – is. Here’s the context and a s

Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to announce that staplers & pencil erasers will once again be available for sale to some companies, as well as a few close personal friends and important donors. Thi

more arbitrariness, more favoritism. Semafor is reporting that The US government has lifted its block on Mythos 5 in a letter this afternoon from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to Tom Brown. Fable