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This post likely discusses how Orwellian tactics—such as propaganda, doublespeak, and manipulation of language—are being employed in contemporary contexts, possibly relating to AI, technology, or poli
arXiv:2512.03704v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-context dialogue systems suffer from state inertia, where models over-attend to history and fail to adapt to evolving intents. We demonstrate t
arXiv:2606.27144v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable action generation for multi-stage robotic manipulation remains challenging for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. While existing flow-matchin
arXiv:2512.17621v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved notable progress in computational pathology (CPath), the gigapixel scale and spatial heterogeneity
arXiv:2606.27373v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recently, self-evolving large multimodal models (LMMs) have received attention for improving visual reasoning in a purely unsupervised setting. However,
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
arXiv:2606.26694v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent game world models can synthesize visually plausible, action-conditioned rollouts. However, their interaction behaviors often remain limited to ex
arXiv:2606.26858v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a prominent framework for developing driving experts in autonomous vehicles. However, most existing RL-based expe
arXiv:2606.13755v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We argue that aligning AI to aggregated human preferences is the wrong target. With current technology, one can train AIs to share the values
arXiv:2606.26741v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humanoid motion imitation requires not only accurate perception of human kinematics but also faithful reproduction of physical interactions with the e
arXiv:2606.27287v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to screen and rank job applicants, creating incentives for candidates to strategically manipulate alg
arXiv:2606.26313v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a hierarchical control framework using model predictive control (MPC) and reinforcement learning (RL) for active roll control to man
arXiv:2509.07295v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unified multimodal models (UMMs) unify visual understanding and generation within a single architecture. However, conventional training relies
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
arXiv:2603.05448v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Contact-rich micromanipulation in microfluidic flow is challenging because small disturbances can break pushing contact and induce large later
arXiv:2606.26476v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Warm-started diffusion samplers accelerate iterative inference, but it is rarely clear which part of the pipeline carries the gain. We study extbf{ret
arXiv:2606.26175v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) for robotic manipulation often requires manually designing a dense reward function, which is difficult to tune and often fra
arXiv:2606.26955v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Intraoral scanning is widely used for digital optical impressions in prosthodontic, implant, and orthodontic treatment, but full-arch and long-span scan
arXiv:2606.26997v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) post-training for reasoning increasingly relies on reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), where models lear
arXiv:2509.22259v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study the extent to which rotary position encodings (RoPE), a recent transformer position encoding algorithm broadly adopted in large langu
arXiv:2606.27355v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study whether pre-deployment evaluation rollouts can be reused to supervise policy selection. Robot teams routinely smoke test candidate vision-langu
This article discusses using Ray and Anyscale's distributed computing platform to scale the evaluation of robot control policies across multiple simulations in parallel. It likely covers techniques fo
arXiv:2606.26369v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scoring functions are used to represent the relevance of individual documents. In modern information retrieval or recommendation systems, they are oft
arXiv:2606.27009v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent large language model (LLM) loops, for example a Writer that drafts and a Critic that revises, are almost always terminated by a fixed iterat
arXiv:2606.26617v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scaling laws describe how learning performance varies with model size, data size, and compute. While recent theoretical work has established scaling law
arXiv:2606.26466v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multilingual large language models often produce inconsistent reasoning and answers for semantically equivalent prompts in different languages. Prior wo
arXiv:2508.03247v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Prior clinical psychology research shows that Western individuals with depression tend to report psychological symptoms, while Eastern individuals r
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
arXiv:2606.26872v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent online reinforcement learning has substantially improved image editing quality. However, existing Flow-GRPO-style methods usually rely on a singl
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
arXiv:2606.27032v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Energy trading decisions depend not only on current market prices, but also on expected future market conditions, and operational constraints. This ma
arXiv:2606.26200v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern machine learning systems have outgrown their origins as isolated predictive constructs, evolving into complex socio-technical architectures tha
arXiv:2606.26387v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) extend large language models (LLMs) with visual perception, enabling joint reasoning over images and text. De
arXiv:2601.20381v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Visual foundation models provide strong perceptual features for robotics, but their dense representations lack explicit object-level structure, limi
arXiv:2606.12808v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Adaptive Hamiltonian learning is central to calibrating and characterizing quantum devices. In an adaptive controller, choosing the next exper
arXiv:2606.26663v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) generate actions together with predicted futures, offering a powerful interface for robot decision making. In contact-rich ma
arXiv:2606.26300v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A classical intuition holds that verifying a solution is easier than producing one. For today's coding agents, this intuition is being inverted: as foun
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
arXiv:2603.14717v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generating novel protein sequences that respect a family's statistical constraints typically requires training deep generative models on thousands t
arXiv:2606.27342v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Entity Matching (EM) is a core operation in the data integration pipeline, where records from different sources are compared to determine whether they
arXiv:2606.27344v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous manipulation depends on contact events that are fast, local, and often visually occluded. Piezoelectric microphones offer a compact and high-b
arXiv:2606.18974v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Unified multimodal models (UMMs) interleave generated ''visual thoughts'' (VTs) with text reasoning to improve spatial tasks. This incurs roughly an
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
arXiv:2606.26400v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic systems are changing how complex operational tasks are coordinated, introducing a new paradigm for connecting heterogeneous data sources and aut
arXiv:2606.27288v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-model LLM systems such as routing, voting, cascades, fusion, and mixture-of-agents are used to beat single-model accuracy. We show that their gain
arXiv:2606.27374v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Going beyond predicting robot actions, World Action Models (WAMs) can also generate future visual observations. We build on this generative capability
arXiv:2606.24999v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) with unknown coefficients arise widely in scientific machine learning, including continuous-time
arXiv:2501.14622v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning efficient representations for decision-making policies is a challenge in imitation learning (IL). Current IL methods require expert demonst
arXiv:2606.25985v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown strong potential for general-purpose robot manipulation, but their inference latency remains a major obst
arXiv:2606.25003v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated split learning (FSL) enables collaborative training across bandwidth-constrained IoT devices, but repeated activation and gradient exchange cr
arXiv:2606.25424v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion-based text-to-speech (TTS) models have achieved significant improvements in speech quality. However, modeling sharp prosodic transitions and
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/
arXiv:2602.02219v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models are widely employed as evaluators, a paradigm commonly referred to as LLM-as-a-judge. Prior research has predominantly examine
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