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People want jobs, not subsidies: Taxing corporations to fund programs is usually controversial and partisan - but when it comes to AI job displacement voters are shockingly left wing. It's genuinely e

people with advanced degrees who can’t distinguish between pure LLMs (which is what I critiqued in 2022) and LLMs enhanced with neurosymbolic techniques (which is what I championed in 2022) disappoint

Gary Marcus shares an actual REI advertisement as a follow-up to previous discussion about flawed bicycle examples, crediting Oren Etzioni for the reference. The post appears to contrast a real-world

This article argues that increasing computational scale alone cannot address fundamental accuracy and reliability problems in AI systems, suggesting that AI development requires solutions beyond raw c

SPCX - SPACEX BOND SELLOFF DEEPENS SpaceX's 25 billion bond sale is suffering unusually steep losses, with paper losses exceeding $300 million. Traders say fast-money investors may be exiting, while c

Gary Marcus comments on significant losses in $SPCX stock, noting that investors who purchased at 225 experienced approximately one-third losses within two weeks as the stock fell below 150. The post

Things came undone this week: Starmer resigned, SpaceX tanked, the Iran deal stumbled, and a housing bill that passed the Senate is dying on Trump’s desk. Today’s conversation with @GaryMarcus is a mu

This is what’s causing Anthropic to aggressively beg for govt protection (see below). Customers are finding cheaper alternatives. Keeping employees requires continuing ultra-rich secondaries ($$) that

Gary Marcus fact-checks a claim that WeWork had no revenue, indicating this is a debunking of a false statement about the coworking company's financial performance. The post clarifies that WeWork did

“WeWork’s IPO fell apart. I’ve been calling OpenAI the (possible) WeWork of AI for a long time. I will not be surprised if their IPO plans apart, too” - @garymarcus, June 10, two weeks before OpenAI d

ah, the creative S-1 For those unfamiliar, WeWork pioneered the creative S-1 and the subsequent failure to IPO, and Sam seems to be following a comparable path. /cc @GaryMarcus https://qz.com/1685919/

An almost perfect prediction of the current AI predicament — and what may ultimately unravel our entire economy — from almost three years ago (August 2023), at Marcus on AI: Nearly every word remains

An important point which Gary will break down on tomorrow’s @ProfGMarkets episode Tune in Imagine if i had a business that gave you 20 bills for 10 bills. As word spread, my customer base would grow.

Gary Marcus discusses potential implications for generative AI if Michael Saylor (MicroStrategy CEO and prominent Bitcoin advocate) experiences financial or reputational difficulties. The post likely

Chad Jones, economist who'll be joining Anthropic: 'In other words, with log utility it is optimal to take a 1 in 3 chance of ending human existence in exchange for a 2/3 chance of dramatically raisin

Chart of increasing revenue, pre the decline of token-maxxing, not looking at the immense costs/lack of profitability, not considering threats from open-source models, price-war dynamics etc. @noahopi

Crazy how many times people have told me over the last five years that a solution to hallucinations was right around the corner — and yet here we still are. This study tests how often LLMs invent answ

Grifters and many other salesman are like LLMs. They say things that aren’t always true with absolutely certainty. Bitcoin has won. Global consensus is that $BTC is digital capital. The four-year cycl

Grok may not be the AGI that Elon promised, but it appears that the man has found his use case. xAI is betting big on AI video and image generation — but the biggest driver of Grok Imagine may not be

Imagine if i had a business that gave you 20 bills for 10 bills. As word spread, my customer base would grow. My revenue (how many $10 bills I collected) would grow. And I would continue to lose money

In the end, will Elon be best known for his efforts to mainstream electric cars, for his rockets, …. or for his efforts to mainstream AI-generated porn? xAI is betting big on AI video and image genera

It is amazing to me how little the X-verse cares about the rise of authoritarianism in the United States. Is that because most of the “people” here are actually Russian bots? 🤔 More Soviet-style decep

Looks like OpenAI’s IPO will be delayed until 2027. • might be a sign that their finances don’t look compelling yet. • gives Anthropic time to go first If they can bump up the valuation by $999.3 bill

love that one of my readers made her own, explicit set of public predictions. 🙏 I want to post my predictions for 2ish years horizon. AI stock bubble collapses due to fundamentals not working out with

Gary Marcus expresses concern about deceptive practices in the United States that he compares to Soviet-style tactics, suggesting he has observed propaganda, misinformation, or manipulative government

noah smith, ignoring that Anthropic’s rumored profitable quarter is a. during peak tokenmaxxing b, before recent Chinese advances c. in a quarter in which Elon gave them a big one time subsidy. that’s

People are not getting how significant this news – The White House delaying GPT 5.6 – is. Here’s the context and a suggestion. Both @pmarca and @DavidSacks did everything in their power to keep the Wh

Connor Leahy expresses concern that AI tools are being used by many people in ways that diminish their capabilities and agency rather than enhance them. The post suggests that rather than leveraging A

Gary Marcus discusses concerns about generative AI's limitations and potential overhyping of the technology, arguing that initial enthusiasm may not translate into sustained practical breakthroughs as

Weird to see this just as the administration is delaying a model for the second time in weeks, apparently without clarity about its criteria. You can’t be pro-growth, pro-innovation, and opaque at all

wouldn’t it be funny if greed undid OpenAI? 🚨BREAKING: OPENAI IPO DELAYED Altman told everyone OpenAI is worth a TRILLION dollars His own advisors warned him that retail investors aren’t buying it… ga

A message to the Republicans in congress and the Trump administration. Please stop treating legal immigration like just another issue to be fine tuned and start treating it like the existential threat

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COMPANY BUILT ON IP THEFT RAGES AGAINST THEFT OF ITS OWN IP ANTHROPIC ACCUSED ALIBABA OF UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO ITS AI MODELS, OUTLINING ITS ALLEGATIONS IN LETTERS SENT TO U.S. SENATORS AND THE WHITE

Gary Marcus expresses anticipation for developments in generative AI, suggesting continued evolution and advancement in the field. The post likely discusses expectations for next-generation AI capabil

Hypergolic propellants are rocket fuels that spontaneously ignite when their components come into contact without requiring an external ignition source, making them useful for spacecraft propulsion sy

“The Al bubble is by far the biggest stock-market bubble that mankind has ever seen - both in scale and scope, in terms of the leverage that's in there and in terms of the sheer excessive exuberance t

The problem we face with AI today is not a technical problem, it is a political problem. Of who gets to decide. What level of risk the public is exposed to, what future we build towards or avert. It's

Gary Marcus argues that generative AI, while significant, represents only a narrow subset of the broader computing field and should not overshadow the diverse and impactful work occurring across other

Today I present you a curated collection of @tszzl saying that Fukuyama is always right We Need an International Treaty to Ban Superintelligence https://open.substack.com/pub/persuasion1/p/time-for-a-

This post likely references Gary Marcus's critical commentary on limitations or failures in generative AI systems, using 'Fizzle' as a metaphorical or literal descriptor for underperformance or unmet

Wow even @MicahLasher thinks the OpenAI-Andreessen-Palantir money spent to oppose @AlexBores backfired -- NY-12 retrospective in the NYT from Teddy Schleifer. Hard to imagine this was the headline tha

Gary Marcus argues that data security is fundamentally fragile and that mass surveillance and data harvesting practices create persistent security vulnerabilities that cannot be eliminated. The post e

AI Capex pushback from GS: 'If frontier intelligence can increasingly be developed in the East at a fraction of the cost incurred in the West … then the largest capital allocators are also the ones mo

AI data centres are hungry for land, water & power. I’m calling on every major AI company to publicly disclose the full environmental impact of its systems – as a matter of transparency No more hidden

Although I supported Musk in his suit against OpenAI, and admire what he did for electric cars, I am afraid my considered overall view is not very different from this: Candidly I have no idea why anyo