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Sam’s not the right CEO for OpenAI anymore. He squandered their lead, failed to deliver the AGI he promised, flailed productwise, and torched his own reputation; meanwhile he is burning money at a unp
Scary that he doesn’t know this. Elon Musk just said on the witness stand that he doesn't know what a 'safety card' is with regard to AI development... 'Why would it be a card?' He also says he doesn'
Sheer insanity. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta collectively are spending more money than the Manhattan Project *every single month*. More than 12x the Manhattan Project every year. And what they
the ability of this man to sell things he doesn’t believe in is truly extraordinary SAM ALTMAN “OpenAI is structured as a nonprofit because we don’t ever want to be making decisions to benefit shareho
Gary Marcus critiques the rapid deployment of chatbots to market without adequate consideration of potential harms and consequences. The statement reflects concerns about insufficient safety testing a
The Musk-Altman trial is clearly a battle of egos—and it’s hard to root for either side—𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗮 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗮 𝗻𝗼𝗻𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗻𝗲
This post appears to discuss allegations that a U.S. President sought to obtain $10 billion in taxpayer funds for personal use. The content is incomplete in the provided title, making it difficult to
this kind of armchair nonsense is especially hilarious on day when I defended Elon’s lawsuit on CNN and in my newsletter. 🙄 @GaryMarcus @gnoble79 I'm not sure history is going to be kind to this take.
Gary Marcus poses a question about whether OpenAI will achieve sufficient profitability to justify the substantial capital investments made into the company. This reflects broader industry speculation
Gary Marcus shares Torsten Slok's analysis comparing Geoffrey Hinton's 2016 prediction that radiologist training should cease due to AI capabilities against actual empirical data on AI performance in
Gary Marcus critiques Mark Zuckerberg's claimed focus on biology research, suggesting the financial commitment is minimal compared to his AI investments and stating that Zuckerberg's actual priorities
As an avid cyclist, I was amused to see ChatGPT's “powerful new image engine' draw a bicycle with the 'brake' label pointing to empty space where brakes are sometimes found on other bicycles. The poin
From what I can tell, Elon Musk just stepped on his own toes at the trial, making it all about him instead of the promises Altman and Brockman broke. OpenAI will slay his ego on cross. He should have
This post by AI researcher Gary Marcus contrasts Google's original 'Don't Be Evil' corporate motto from 2001 with a critical question about the company's 2026 practices, likely arguing that Google has
⚠️ Google’s Pentagon deal seems to allow for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. ⚠️ According to the article, the deal allows for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance (in the common meaning)
honestly, one of the worst things this nation has ever done to itself. No amount of words can convey how far behind this country will be in every avenue for a number of years because of this administr
I spent the last 2 months trying to prevent this. If OpenAI offered a fig leaf, Google said 'imagine we offered a fig leaf.' Google affirms it can't veto usage, commits to modify safety filters at gov
In this informal poll, only a fifth of all coders and software engineers have gone over full time to vibe coding. Most use vibe coding; few use it exclusively. Most still do some hand coding. Amateurs
OpenAI, which squandered its tremendous lead and is now missing its projections, is in trouble. There’s no two ways about it. 'OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar has told other company leaders
Gary Marcus announced a discussion about AI scheduled for 9am PT, with details to be found either in Mario Nawfal's pinned tweet or on YouTube. The conversation appears to be a live social media event
The cracks inside OpenAI are deepening, and the numbers don’t lie. When your own CFO is sounding the alarm, something is seriously wrong. Check this out: 1: OpenAI missed its target of 1 billion weekl
They were saying that AI was going to enable time travel, and quite frankly, it truly did! It transported us all straight to 1984. ⚠️ Google’s Pentagon deal seems to allow for autonomous weapons and m
Thoughtful book on LLMs and linguistics — by someone who actually knows linguistics. Interested in the LLM vs. linguistic theory debate? My just out book will tell you (almost) all about it. https://m
When you project exponential growth – and miss. I stand by my call that OpenAI is likely to someday be seen as the WeWork of AI. Exclusive: OpenAI recently missed its own targets for new users and rev
Wow. Musk’s lawyers will capitalize on this. 🚨 Microsoft's lawyer just told the jury Microsoft 'knew nothing'. OpenAI's non-profit board approved all funding, every step of the way and Microsoft did i
⚠️ AI agents are wildly premature technology that is being rolled out way too fast. The deepest lesson about the vibe coded AI agent disaster story that is running around is NOT about losing your data
“Always keep a separate backup.” For sure, every experienced programmer should know this. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘷𝘪𝘣𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵. And we now have a legion of synthetic coding
Gary Marcus reported on X that polling software is experiencing a malfunction where votes are not displaying, a problem he notes has been observed by multiple users. He confirmed the issue from his ow
Gary Marcus is a prominent AI researcher, cognitive scientist, and entrepreneur who frequently discusses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cognitive science on X (formerly Twitter). His p
@GaryMarcus I mean AI influencers here and everywhere are screaming you shouldn't get hired if you don't use agentic AI because you're deliberatly slowing everyone down and the moment something goes w
@GaryMarcus Never ever use generative AI for anything critical. The technology is probablistic all the way down and therefore inherently unreliable. Why is this so hard to understand? It’s wild how ma
@GaryMarcus These coding tools are intellectual chain saws. Powerful in the hands of a caring professional, extremely dangerous to the operator when used improperly. Implying AGI-adjacency has created
Generative AI as the Hindenberg 🦔 Michael Wooldridge, professor of AI at Oxford, is warning that the race to market AI has raised the risk of a 'Hindenburg moment' that could shatter global confidence
I don’t always agree with @ElonMusk. I often disagree. Sometimes loudly. But he’s basically right here, as far I can see. Scam Altman and Greg Stockman stole a charity. Full stop. Greg got tens of bil
If a major car company had AI fan boys and released a car with loose lug nuts and the wheels came off, after hyping it as the greatest thing ever, and a bunch of people died, those fan boys would say
Gary Marcus discusses technical and security issues affecting the X platform, including malfunctioning polls, compromised accounts, and increased phishing scams in direct messages. The post appears to
People keep blaming the users for the growing number of vibe-coded reasoners. Doing so is *half* right. Users *are*screwing up - by letting vibe coded stuff access their files, without proper backups,
@robertskmiles @GaryMarcus “fails less often than a human does” is a terrible metric. We build deterministic software and test it to destruction to ensure it’s 99.99999 reliable . That’s been the basi
Stop blaming the users. It’s not that simple: People keep blaming the users for the growing number of vibe-coded reasoners. Doing so is *half* right. Users *are*screwing up - by letting vibe coded stu
Gary Marcus critiques common misconceptions about how large language models (LLMs) function, suggesting that most users have an incorrect mental model of what LLMs actually do when generating response
This statement critiques the asymmetrical attribution of outcomes in AI development, where users are blamed for failures while AI models receive credit for successes. Gary Marcus uses the metaphor of
the difference is that we don’t *hype* giving 12 year-olds bulldozers. *of course* it’s a kind of user error when a model destroys all of user’s data and they didn’t have a backup. that’s the point. v
The divorce between Microsoft and OpenAI that I projected three years ago is now underway. Time for everyone to start seeing other people. OpenAI is moving away from its exclusive Microsoft arrangemen
Gary Marcus critiques the marketing of large language model autocomplete systems as 'artificial intelligence,' arguing this terminology misrepresents their actual capabilities. He extends this critici
Gary Marcus made a critical commentary on Sam Altman's priorities, using a pun on 'AGI' (Artificial General Intelligence) to suggest that Altman's actual focus is on 'Adjusted Gross Income' rather tha
The question of whether Altman and Brockman did what they promised ≠ the question of whether Elon is a good person. Musk argued that Altman and Brockman broke promises and abused the notion of a nonpr
there’s seem to be a ton of confusion about this post. for clarity: The question of whether Altman and Brockman did what they promised ≠ the question of whether Elon is a good person. Musk argued that
This is totally wrong. Blaming the user is missing the point that (a) coding agents have been overhyped and (b) can’t reliably obey the rules given to them in system prompts and other guardrails. Sorr
yep, that’s what I do. I am increasingly concerned that people in China are soaking up my wisdom, while a lot of people in the US try to dismiss me. i don’t think that is going to end well. 10. @GaryM
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“AI: it feels most impressive when you don’t know much about the subject, don’t care or don’t have a clear idea of what the you want… Once you know what something should feel or look like, it becomes
All your jobs are belong to us Then surely Anthropic is making a big mistake by hiring all those people huh? Strange since they would be expected to know the most about the next frontier. With OpenAI
Anthropic’s CEO says software engineering is dying. Anthropic’s job listing has 70 open positions in software engineering. 🙄 @GaryMarcus https://www.anthropic.com/careers/jobs 70 opened position in SE
Gary Marcus, a prominent AI researcher and critic, posted a message on X (formerly Twitter) addressing software engineers and coders, likely discussing technical aspects of AI development, programming
disconcerting. A European Commission proposal could create one of Europe’s largest privacy and national-security risks in decades. https://techletters.substack.com/p/the-european-commission-is-turning
Doomers have made the AI industry much of what it is today, by hyping the narrative. Chamath captured the current state of AI perfectly in his 2025 annual letter 'In testing the most effective messagi
Gary Marcus reported receiving a high volume of phishing emails through X (formerly Twitter) direct messages, suggesting either widespread account compromises or a potential security vulnerability all
In other words, you need the world models that LeCun, Schmidhuber, Fei Fei Li, and I have been advocating for all along. Sam Altman says today's models are still dumb because they barely understand yo
“Loves tearing down overhyped AI claims, but his critiques always hit the nail on the head”. They get it, in China. 全球AI圈最有影响力的15个人，你一个都不认识就别说自己懂AI了 说真的，AI这个行业吧，信息差就是钱差。 你每天刷那些二手资讯、等媒体翻译，黄花菜都凉了。真正的消息，
Gary Marcus argues that software engineers will remain in high demand for years into the future, countering claims that artificial intelligence or other technological developments will eliminate the n