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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
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
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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