fun thread on consciousness with @Grimezsz:
Gary Marcus shares a discussion thread about consciousness with user @Grimezsz on X (formerly Twitter), likely exploring philosophical, scientific, or technical perspectives on consciousness and relat
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Gary Marcus shares a discussion thread about consciousness with user @Grimezsz on X (formerly Twitter), likely exploring philosophical, scientific, or technical perspectives on consciousness and relat
Gary Marcus discusses declining prices for NVIDIA's H100 and H200 AI chips, suggesting that inflated valuations and returns on investment for AI hardware customers are becoming unsustainable as the ma
Holy shit! They changed the rules for Elon again... They waved the profitability rule & are adding SpaceX to indices only 5 days after IPO... normally it's 90 This forces 401k retirement & passive fun
Holy smokes! Polymarket was not trolling. 500M accidental Claude spend in one month! Scoop from @MadisonMills22 @axios NEW: AI consultant reveals a client accidentally spent $500,000,000.00 in a singl
I read this garbage (in a big UK newspaper) when Google can’t even count reliably and wonder why people don’t spend more time learning about AI’s actual strengths and weakness before running their mou
Important context for latest OpenAI announcement. Especially (5:30): 'The model spit out a long transcript of an answer. Then a team of expert mathematicians poured over this [transcript] and identifi
In the last 30 days alone: – Microsoft cancelled most of its Claude Code licenses, citing cost – Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in 4 months – Uber's COO publicly said AI costs are 'hard
just imagine what will happen to the economy and people’s retirement funds if these projections from FT are correct. brace for bailouts. The AI numbers are starting to look very ugly. Even under 'best
LLMs actually produce bullshit for many reasons, and would continue to do so (though less) even they weren’t trained on bullshit. legal citation hallucinations are a nice example where the underlying
@OpenAI Foundation just launched with a 25B commitment and equity in OpenAI valued at ~130B. Sounds like a philanthropy giant. But look closer: the big money goes to programs they control internally (
🚨super bad news for three of the biggest IPOs in history: Companies are starting to question whether soaring AI spending is delivering meaningful returns. An AI consultant tells us a client recently s
The AI numbers are starting to look very ugly. Even under 'best case' assumptions, FT's own data shows Microsoft AI ROI at -9%, Google at -15%, Meta at -28%, Oracle at -35%. Only Amazon barely comes o
“The mechanism is always the same in every story I've been covering. The demo works in a controlled environment with clean inputs. The deployment fails because real kitchens, real intersections, and r
The price to rent an Nvidia H200 just collapsed from 7/hr to 4/hr in three weeks. A -40% drop in the cost of the single most strategic asset in tech. When the underlying commodity that powers your ent
Gary Marcus critiques the current state of AI development as wasteful and problematic, arguing that the industry's trillion-dollar investment represents a significant failure or misallocation of resou
tokenmaxxing is officially over Sources: Amazon has shut down an internal leaderboard that tracked employees' use of AI tools after workers tried to boost their scores with needless tasks (@rafeuddin_
Gary Marcus reflects on a past prediction or stance that he held, asserting its correctness in retrospect, likely addressing criticisms or skepticism he previously faced regarding AI, cognitive scienc
*Why* do you think (current) AI’s are conscious, @Grimezsz? And extra credit, what do you mean by “conscious”? My only issue with the Pope's encyclical is I think they are conscious and therefore dese
you literally can’t prove or disprove the idea that beaches are conscious so should we stop walking on them? @dash_eats You literally cannot prove or disprove this. Because we cannot prove or disprove
a16z waking up and realizing we are nowhere near the singularity 🤣 OpenAI and Anthropic are effectively telling the market they can't solve every problem with a generic AI coworker. You don't pour bil
Gary's no way as bad as some people make him out to be. some data i shared yesterday on anthropic revenue possibly slowing down aren’t as a compelling as i thought; i have deleted my posts and await b
Gary Marcus expresses curiosity about the long-term outcomes of current developments, likely related to artificial intelligence or technology trends given his expertise in AI and cognitive science. Th
If we had done everything I suggested in my 2020 arXiv article “The Next Decade in AI”, we might actually have reached AGI by now. In the last three years, after a detour driven by the false promise o
🚨 MICHAEL BURRY WARNS THREE UPCOMING IPOs COULD COMPLETELY CRASH THE STOCK MARKET. Michael Burry reported that the upcoming public listings for SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic are going to pull more cap
More CEOs saying the obvious. AI has been hyped so much over the last few years that every other technology, market trend, and idea is overlooked. When will be get past the mania about imminent AGI, c
Only thing completely clear about the future of work is that Altman and Amodei will say whatever they think will drive up their IPOs. Altman and Amodei have said for years that AI was so powerful that
Palantir CEO Alex Karp goes after AI slop. The fight over AI “slop” is really a fight over whether software is performing or merely pretending. 'The appearance of software working is not software work
Gary Marcus deleted an original post after Gergely Orosz provided comments questioning the compelling nature of the data presented. The post appears to have been withdrawn due to critical feedback tha
some data i shared yesterday on anthropic revenue possibly slowing down aren’t as a compelling as i thought; i have deleted my posts and await better data before drawing conclusions. h/t @GergelyOrosz
Someone just asked me “What I don’t get is why you see it as some kind of failure that AI labs are now using harnesses and neurosymbolic tools…?” I don’t! As I argued in my newsletter on Claude Code (
Starbucks learned the hard way: you literally can’t even trust (current) AI to count. For some reason OpenAI doesn’t seem to be talking about how Starbucks spent years creating and testing an AI inven
This is fearmongering, @davidsacks, afaik. I see no candidate regulation being taken seriously that is an actual threat to the trillion dollar AI companies (which can easily afford whatever compliance
“Tokens got burned for millions of dollars without any real significant ROI to show for it.” hearing this over and over again The same conversation is happening across tech right now and many of us sa
we will have the most science and math submissions ever in the next few years. but most ≠ best. to get to best, quality will have to beat slop Terence Tao: AI is creating a “traffic jam” in math If AI
You reap what you sow. OpenAI’s public image is becoming a bigger liability as political backlash against AI grows. The company has spoken with several communications executives but has yet to fill th
“agent debt” is a new term, but it was inevitable, an instantiation of the AI-driven technical debt I keep warning about. what happens when you build it fast, but you don’t really know how to fix it.
Gary Marcus shares a video clip discussing the intersection of AI agents and questions of responsibility, featuring contributors Thierry Souttiaux and Silicon Valley commentators. The post highlights
and you, through stock index funds, and because of some recent rule changes, will basically be forced to buy this garbage. Elon’s about to take a big chunk of your retirement, and unless you call your
Gary Marcus critiques Anthropic's claims about their AI capabilities, likely contrasting inflated marketing promises with the actual technical limitations and performance of their systems. The post pr
corruption Elon Musk has used Trump’s war in Iran to quintuple the amount he’s charging the Pentagon for SpaceX services. https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-spacex-uses-trumps-war-to-squeeze-mor
even by the standards of the last few years, we are in some truly insane territory here. “Unserious, empty, hallucinatory, and borderline dishonest” - the prospectus for a company that the S&P 500 is
I feel like I'm eating crazy pills when I read the countless bad takes around how the Vatican would have virtually anointed Anthropic. When if you read the Pope's encyclical it's actually a COMPLETE r
⚠️⚠️⚠️if you believe this you and think you are safe, you don’t understand how S&P is about to change the rules and what that means. run don’t walk to read my essay “This one weird trick might cost yo
Gary Marcus discusses a potentially overlooked financial risk that could have massive implications for retirement savings, presenting his analysis in an essay format on X. The post appears to emphasiz
It's a shame the Pope didn't ask Chris Olah what happened to his plan to give up to 10% of Anthropic to the authors of the work they train on. (Spoiler: it never happened, and the authors on whose wor
lol. OpenAI as the WeWork of AI. Literally called it, in those exact words, @CNBC w @carlquintanilla, 2024. Now even SoftBank is worried. SoftBank's own executives think Sam Altman is scamming their C
Neurosymbolic AI is saving deep learning from hitting the wall (*exactly* as I said my 2022 paper “deep learning is hitting a wall”) Really sad to see someone as smart @peterwildeford confusing the or
Nine reasons why I warned OpenAI might fail and turn out to be the WeWork of AI, from two years ago. 9 reasons that OpenAI could someday be seen as the WeWork of AI: 👉 Lots of competitors are catching
Gary Marcus, a prominent AI researcher and critic, questions whether a word cloud diagram could possess consciousness, likely engaging in ironic commentary on overclaimed AI capabilities or consciousn
openai truly tanked a golden reputation, and squandered its lead, yet its board stands by its CEO, and looks for a band aid. OpenAI has a PR challenge, and although it's spoken to several candidates f
Gary Marcus critiques SpaceX's valuation as unreasonably inflated, using hyperbolic language to suggest the company's market assessment lacks rational justification. The post likely discusses concerns
SpaceX has lost 13B since 2023 and #WallStreet is still pricing the IPO at 1 TRILLION. Though a mere economist, @deanbaker13 says the math isn't adding up. https://cepr.net/publications/wall-street-sa
SpaceX's corporate structure and financial arrangements have been criticized by experts as potentially favoring Elon Musk's interests over those of other shareholders. The article examines how the com
temporarily putting PhD in my social media name because this tweet from Elon is so asinine and because Elon’s goons went after a friend for supporting the poor kid that Elon so rudely attacked. @iScie
This post draws a comparison between Elon Musk and Sam Altman based on insights from SpaceX's S-1 filing, highlighting shared characteristics or philosophies between the two tech leaders. The analysis
An OpenAI insider (@thsottiaux) raises concerns about the risks of over-relying on AI agents to handle cognitive tasks, warning against wholesale delegation of thinking to autonomous systems. The warn
The SpaceX IPO is a shitshow. When you peel back the layers, you realize how thoroughly corrupt it is. SpaceX’s unconventional corporate arrangements appear to benefit Elon Musk at the expense of othe
this basically destroys the extrapolations that had Anthropic making two trillion dollars a year. It's clear that growth for coding tools such as Claude Code has decelerated from the pace it was since
this logic from 2024 held up pretty well considering all that’s changed. 9 reasons that OpenAI could someday be seen as the WeWork of AI: 👉 Lots of competitors are catching up. 👉 OpenAI has been force
University of California STEM professors want standardized tests back due to severe math deficiencies among students: “We now observe preparation gaps so severe that instructors must reteach middle sc