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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

Gary Marcus comments on OpenAI's financial losses, referencing a period when the company's annual losses were approximately $5 billion as a point of comparison to its current financial situation. The

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 lead over Anthropic an

The US government absolutely should NOT bail out OpenAI. They have AFAIK been given more funding than anyone in history and there is no evidence they can run a profitable business,and meanwhile many o

This is collectively the largest financial iceberg ever put in front of the stock market. This is $5 trillion in TOTAL AIR. These companies have never made a dime. SpaceX is literally a government wel

🦔This one happened yesterday but is still worth flagging. Starbucks killed its AI-powered inventory counting tool after nine months in North American stores. The system used LiDAR sensors and cameras

Three cheers for @flowersslop who agrees with me about nothing but still sees the value of thoughtful disagreement. thanks feels like a hot take now, but any space needs a real variety of opinions. I

Total amount raised: 190 billion Total spending pledged: 600 billion Total profits (cumulative): 0 @CarinaN818 @GaryMarcus Because you can raise 190 billion in funding by releasing an LLM chatbot that

Gary Marcus discusses the risks that AI systems may function adequately until they unexpectedly fail catastrophically, potentially causing severe economic damage. The post suggests that current AI rel

Gary Marcus reports on X that someone named Theo has clarified he did not accept fees from OpenAI, following earlier ambiguity about his financial relationships with the company. The post appears to b

Gary Marcus critiques OpenAI's business model sustainability, suggesting it lacks transparency or clear long-term viability beyond investor confidence. The post implies skepticism about OpenAI's path

World models have existed for years (though not in LLMs); I take them to be explicit representation of objects, places, events, mechanisms etc you can reason over. Chess computers have them (board, pi

you can destroy a person’s simply by lying about them. that is what OpenAI is trying do to me. ask yourself why The case against me below is completely intellectually dishonest, filled with lies and m

100% agree with @BethMayBarnes on this point and most (though not quite all*) of her important thread. *i am much less concerned about extinction risk per se, as discussed in my TLS review of If Anyon

Gary Marcus announced an upcoming CNBC live segment scheduled for approximately 11:15 ET featuring hosts Carl Quintanilla and Leslie Picker to discuss the intersection of artificial intelligence and i

America’s biggest companies have gone from printing money to burning it. It does not take Poirot to work out what’s going on. Register for free to get our columnist’s take on it http://econ.st/4tKbpoB

Gary Marcus comments positively on what appears to be a strong period for initial public offerings (IPOs) in a brief social media post. The post suggests optimism about market conditions favorable to

Essential context on OpenAI’s Erdos result I truly miss the age of science and transparency in AI. Especially given how much money and political power and governance and scientific understanding is at

Fuck this OpenAI employee, seriously fuck him. Also read this quantitative study, which I had nothing to do with, that says my technical predictions have bee largely correct. https://github.com/davego

“Gary Marcus, former CEO of Geometric Intelligence and New York University professor, joins @SquawkStreet @CNBC to discuss why he still believes OpenAI could be the ‘WeWork’ of AI, why he finds Anthro

ha ha, so much for step change? maybe this problem was just easier than some? The standard GPT-5.5 reproduced the proof ~ 👇 https://chatgpt.com/share/6a0e9e04-8cb0-8332-a4f1-ec68acd2e03e You don't nee

I have to eat crow on this, in light of further information. whatever OpenAI spent on Erdos using a new model, apparently you can get GPT 5.5 to do something similar; @emollick’s presumably estimates

I just ran into a guy I know in NYC who said he’s doing a temporary gig for OpenAI. According to him, OpenAI is paying hundreds of people and families in New York to install 360-degree cameras through

i suspect that this is a wild underestimate, both ignoring the costs in developing the model and ignoring the fact that many questions may well have been posed that didn’t succeed. If this is true, us

I truly miss the age of science and transparency in AI. Especially given how much money and political power and governance and scientific understanding is at stake. We don’t know for example • How man