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This post from Gary Marcus appears to reference a humorous or notable moment related to his work, with image attachments in Traditional Chinese that provide context to the claim that he 'has won again
@GaryMarcus @hendrycks @Yoshua_Bengio We recently tested all of the major LLMs with tic-tac-toe, modified chess, and a novel game -- even the top models all failed: illegal moves, claiming a win when
GOOGLE CEO: “THERE IS SOME IRRATIONALITY IN THE CURRENT AI BOOM. THE GROWTH OF AI INVESTMENT HAS BEEN AN EXTRAORDINARY MOMENT.” ASKED WHAT HAPPENS IF THE AI BUBBLE POPS, HE SAID: “I THINK NO COMPANY I
have always wondered about this: is it that the true believers willfully simply don’t want to understand my actual positions or do they lack the cognitive chops to follow them? @GaryMarcus This, sadly
here’s one sample, below, not even the only one I saw today; another claimed I don’t do research anymore when I had published articles in two top journals (Science and the Proceedings of The Royal Soc
he’s not dumb and certainly his IQ is above average but as I wrote somewhere before “I think that Musk has consistently made a dumb set of choices - largely stemming from a mix of four cognitive error
hilarious how all the objections to this post about how elon understands engineering better than science point to elon’s engineering accomplishments, rather than his (meager) record of scientific inno
⚠️⚠️⚠️i don’t think most people understand the implications of the mood shift below, so I will spell them out. they are serious, and eventually will affect the global economy. when a serious coder as
> I’m now in the LeCun/Marcus camp on LLMs > real programming agents will need world models > not some RLVR shit it’s over The Eternal Sloptember https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/05/2
Interesting point … but are there any critics of mine that are “authentic” who have laid out a systematic critique, without relying on strawmen? @GaryMarcus While addressing some critics can be helpfu
interestingly (although it is bit apples and oranges) the number below is a similar to the fraction of cars involved in car accidents (mostly nonfatal) in a week. but, crucially, we have tons of measu
It’s no longer just AI companies & their founders being sued over AI training - individual researchers are now being sued, too. In a new lawsuit, two authors allege that Guillaume Lample, while an AI
Let the record show: honest critique is not pessimism. Your points on scaling limits and neurosymbolic AI have been validated. Fair debate requires engaging with what was actually said. Retweeting thi
LLM companies are likely to be like airline companies: small margins, intense competition, high expenses. @GaryMarcus Airlines taught us something important: unlimited demand does not guarantee attrac
Gary Marcus discusses whether it is worthwhile to publicly document and explain the logical and conceptual errors made by his critics, framing it as a potential educational exercise. The post reflects
neurosymbolic by @swarat et al for the Erdos win, with much more careful, quantitative work than openai’s in hindsight i wonder whether OpenAI rushed theirs out, knowing this was coming? Another 9 ope
not using LLM’s works for me Prolonged AI use may make it harder to think critically and creatively, recent research suggests. But there are ways to keep the brain fit https://www.economist.com/scienc
Gary Marcus critiques Elon Musk's public perception, arguing that those lacking scientific expertise tend to overestimate Musk's genius while scientifically literate individuals recognize significant
sure, but could you look up at the sky with utter sincerity while you said it? @GaryMarcus 'Fastest growing business', 'loses $5B a year'. I could easily hemorrhage at least 3x that, if that's what 'b
The desperation of the tech bros is made vivid in all the lies they tell about me. Lies about my training. Lies about my experience. Lies about my publication record. Lies about the predictions I have
A Wall Street Journal report highlights the paradox that while the artificial intelligence industry experiences rapid growth, American public sentiment toward AI is increasingly negative. The article,
these kind of examples were cute three years ago now they are just sad 🦔Four viral examples of Google's AI Overview misfiring hit social media this week. One user searching for the definition of 'disr
this is bad SHOCKING: Two researchers at Northeastern sat down with six of the chatbots that hundreds of millions of people use every day. They typed a sentence anyone in distress might type at 3 in t
“We will have a crash, I just can't tell you when, and I can't tell you how deep. But I can assure you, unfortunately, I wish I wasn't saying this, we will have a crash,” says Andrew Ross Sorkin, fina
Well over 300,000 people seem to have felt the same way, roon’s attack, arrogant, misleading, and unprovoked, did OpenAI no favors. @GaryMarcus roon's attack on you is really making me think less of h
1. Agreed w @scaling01 that Mythos appears to be better GPT 5.5 on many metrics. 2. Mythos is definitely a major wakeup call wrt security, and will pose problems for real-world systems that aren’t wel
100%: if OpenAI flops, the gravy train stops. @GaryMarcus if OpenAI's IPO flops, gravy train is OVER! whole industry knows it, they're terrified of it, particularly as they're starting to get just how
Gary Marcus expressed concern about what he perceived as extreme desperation among those involved in IPO (Initial Public Offering) markets, characterizing their behavior as the most desperate he had w
Gary Marcus humorously describes riding an airport monorail as an example of a geofenced autonomous vehicle, highlighting how existing transportation systems already operate with limited autonomy with
an elaboration of the Paul Graham reference: Literally one of the most important essays could read, if you want to have a *productive* disagreements about anything, on X or anywhere else, is @paulg’s
another of the dudes going after me (Theo) is perhaps paid by OpenAI 🙄 He doesn’t work for them, but he likely has or has had some paid partnership with them, because they’ve invited him onto their ca
@GaryMarcus Can't agree more. OpenAI seems struggling to build any successful product after ChatGPT. Codex is promising but it's still early, and it's following Claude Code. It's questionable whether
@GaryMarcus I don't understand why the people running the AI companies are held to a much lower standard. In early 2025 Sam Altman wrote 'we are now confident we know how to build AGI.' As predictions
@GaryMarcus If OpenAI gets bailed out, I will lobby with all of my effort to ensure whatever political faction was responsible gets voted out. I'm about to become a single issue voter over AI because
Here’s a key line in this mythos update. This is precisely an example of why engineers don’t go away, ever. We’ve made it far easier to create and find security issues, which means the new bottleneck
I am deleting a question I had about @theo in light of his clarification. I hope that he and others will reconsider his/their own slander in light of my own clarifications, such as the one below that
I called both missteps and that’s part of why OpenAI and their shills hate me. 🤷♂️ @GaryMarcus It all went wrong with GPT-5 and Sora 2 IMO. Until then OpenAI could do no wrong in the eyes of most peo
“I have no idea why you tagged Paul Graham” means “I was too lazy to try to learn something”. Paul Graham’s piece on argumentation is brilliant, something everyone should learn from it. In the meantim
I love that this post, my most foulmouthed ever, has gotten over 100k views. You want to know why it has spread? Simple. Because a lot of people have become really fed up with OpenAI. Fuck this OpenAI
I once asked a bunch of e/accs how much damage was an acceptable risk relative to take (any) safety precautions. none answered. we may be about to find out. One implication of the below is that we rea
Gary Marcus expresses concern that AI-generated low-quality mathematical content ('AI slop') will proliferate, making the role of professional mathematicians increasingly important for quality control
it ain’t just me who sees the emperor has no clothes The AI bubble math doesn't add up. Anthropic spends 3 to make 1 and that’s before you include any and all other costs like staff or electricity. Mi
it’s truly astonishing to see the entire field move in the neurosymbolic and world model directions I advocated in 2019 and 2020 and then simultaneously see people claim (invariably without specific e
This essay discusses 'vibe slop,' a term describing low-quality AI-generated content that lacks substance but mimics the aesthetic and emotional tone of authentic creative work. The piece likely argue
Literally one of the most important essays could read, if you want to have a *productive* disagreements about anything, on X or anywhere else, is @paulg’s “How to Disagree”. It describes a pyramid. Ev
my guess as to why: the OpenAI crowd is suddenly coming after me relentlessly, but too chicken to actual face me in a moderated debate. here’s why: a. the IPO is coming, but OpenAI’s has lost their le
NEW: Google claimed this week that a team of agents had built an entire operating system, based on a single prompt, costing only about $900 in tokens. We fact check this claim and analyze what it mean
One implication of the below is that we really do mandatory preflight checks (as I argued to the Senate in 2023) asap. Anthropic is playing this one in a sober way, but a company like OpenAI might not
Gary Marcus humorously highlights the massive valuation gap for OpenAI, suggesting that the company would need to generate approximately 5 trillion dollars in profit to justify a 4 trillion dollar val
OpenAI’s “Roon” is officially a chicken, just as I thought. And just like his boss (who has also ducked debates with me). If either actually thought they could dismantle my arguments, it certainly *wo
Quarter million views and counting. OpenAI has no idea how many people they have pissed off. Fuck this OpenAI employee, seriously fuck him. Also read this quantitative study, which I had nothing to do
receipt confirming the chicken part of the above: OpenAI’s “Roon” is officially a chicken, just as I thought. And just like his boss (who has also ducked debates with me). If either actually thought t
Gary Marcus references a Nautilus article arguing that deep learning is encountering fundamental limitations, suggesting readers can find supporting evidence and detailed arguments for this perspectiv
Retweeting this because there appears to be a coordinated and intellectually dishonest campaign to defame me by misrepresenting my beliefs. The case against me below is completely intellectually disho
Sam Altman is rushing to an IPO for OpenAI... ...but if the public markets treat @OpenAI like a traditional business instead of a religion, it's game over. 💀💀💀 @sama #openai #chatGPT credit: @Stylosa
serious escalation in Trump’s growing challenges with inhibiting his behaviors. neurologists know what that means. Trump posts AI video depicting him throwing Colbert in a dumpster and dancing https:/
six years ago world (cognitive) models were the centerpiece of my essay The Next Decade in AI. their time is finally coming. Demis Hassabis on the limit in today’s AI: language can describe the world,
someone else seeing what i am seeing: 🚨 MICHAEL BURRY JUST WARNED THE ENTIRE AI BOOM MAY BE BUILT ON TEMPORARY DEMAND. He published a post today calling Nvidia 'the North Star, Orion, the whole Milky
The biggest myth of all is that I am the only one who doubts the hype. Demonize me all you like, but the bubble is still probably gonna burst. So many other people see it, too. Speculative hype bubble
The case against me below is completely intellectually dishonest, filled with lies and misrepresentations, wrong about almost literally everything it says—a textbook example of propaganda: - I didn’t