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Software engineering legend @Grady_Booch re Dario: I think that @DarioAmodei does not understand software engineering and that he is working feverishly to pump up the valuation of his company in antic
The only people who believe any of this are non-coders. I tried to build a game (an area I’m an n00b in.) The results are amusingly disastrous - I never before coded a decent game. But I’ll crack out
Gary Marcus, a prominent AI researcher and critic, expressed frustration that concerns he has been publicly raising about AI for approximately a decade are now receiving mainstream attention as breaki
Gary Marcus argues that programmers are returning to handcoding despite AI tools, suggesting that AI-assisted coding has encountered practical limitations or drawbacks that make manual coding preferab
Gary Marcus observes that experienced programmers are returning to hand-writing code as a practice, suggesting this approach may offer cognitive or developmental benefits despite modern IDE tools. Thi
Gary Marcus highlights a success or advancement in neurosymbolic AI, an approach that combines neural networks with symbolic reasoning systems. Neurosymbolic AI aims to leverage the pattern-recognitio
Every time I tell AI utopianists that biology is too complex for AI to 'solve', they cite the success of AlphaFold. No, AlphaFold did not 'solve' protein folding. It gets broad structures correct ~70-
A few weeks ago, I was forwarded an email from a journalist named “Michael Chen,” asking for comment on an AI bill in Tennessee. All signs suggest Michael Chen is not a real person, and the publicatio
And eventually schools will (if they have any sense) probably withdraw or limit LLMs. 🦔Schools across the US are reversing years of technology-first classroom policies after studies show laptop and sc
Are LLMs really more important than fire or electricity? “Honestly, a ton of what we’ve developed in my lifetime amounts to scaling up the delivery of information and entertainment and the frictionles
Dubious predictions that have yet to be fulfilled have given dubious people like Sam Altman and Elon Musk extraordinary power over society. @carissaveliz's lecture @@TEDTalks (which I was lucky enough
Last night was the biggest disaster in the history of Tesla. Let me walk you through what actually happened on that earnings call, because the headlines are doing you a disservice: Elon Musk got on th
Anthropic’s own internal security blows. Anthropic said Mythos was too dangerous to release. Then four random guys in a Discord gained access on day one by guessing the URL... This is pretty insane: →
Gary Marcus critiques ChatGPT's lack of embodied understanding and spatial reasoning, arguing that the language model struggles with physical concepts that humans intuitively grasp through bodily expe
Could a sequence of poetic gibberish manipulate the world’s most advanced AI? Recent tests on GPT-5 by @ChristophHeilig show it consistently rates nonsensical 'word salad' as higher quality than clear
Fascinating how AI is getting better at diagrams like these (at least for ones that you could easily find on web search) but still making some pretty wacky errors — like confusing where the rear brake
This post likely references a humorous or unexpected use case involving a rear brake lever, possibly demonstrating an unintended design flaw, unconventional application, or double meaning related to b
God these people are annoying. Obnoxious comment and the guy can’t be bothered to notice the front tire that is labeled as a fork 🙄 Or to notice the front brake that’s lost its cable and is hovering u
Let me say this clearly: LLMs cannot feel emotions. Emotions are evolutionary mechanisms. They push us to avoid danger or approach what is beneficial. We experience emotions because we are alive, and
There seems to be some excitement around “ChatGPT’s powerful new image engine”, but as ever, its functional understanding of the world seems limited. I first learned about the new system when some som
Gary Marcus expresses skepticism or concern about an artificial intelligence claim or incident that he finds implausible, suggesting that even young children would recognize the flaw in the reasoning
This has in fact (at various levels) happened more than 1000 times. Check out @DamienCharlotin’s tracker and my substack essays about it. And it begins Sullivan & Cromwell just admitted to a federal j
Vibe coders are not going to like this. UC San Diego just published the first real field study of experienced developers using AI agents. They watched 13 of them code in the wild and surveyed 99 more.
Mark Zuckerberg and Meta Platforms $META just sent a memo to employees saying Meta Platforms is installing a new tracking software on the computers of all employees in the United States 🇺🇸 so it can t
Please don’t trust your chatbot for medical advice. 🙏 Remember how I used to say that large language models are “frequently wrong, never in doubt”, and how I warned three years ago on 60 Minutes that
Gary Marcus shared an observation or commentary about poetry encountered on a platform or service referenced as 'B.sky' (likely Bluesky, the decentralized social network). The post appears to document
“There is no option to opt out” - Meta’s CTO “There was no option to opt out” - epigraph for life as we knew it? Scoop! Meta staff are outraged over a new program that trains AI off their keystrokes a
Why do no 'AI safety' people ever say how LLM AIs failed to live up to the hype? Why do the safety people never share the failures of LLMs? This link is from Nov 2023 & shows how tech CEOs used 'safet
💯 agree The AI bubble will burst says economist Ann Pettifor She is Chair of the Political Economy Research Centre's Advisory Board at Goldsmiths, a fellow of the New Economics Foundation, a director
“AI is at best a functional mimic, not a conscious experiencing subject. …. The real moral issue lies not in making AI conscious …. but in avoiding transforming humans into zombies” @GaryMarcus @OEIAC
Amazon’s AI coding boom is creating a mess. Vibe coding their way to chaos. @GaryMarcus 🦔The internal document was reported by Business Insider. Here’s the link: https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-spr
Gary Marcus argues that Claude's internal representations described as 'emotion vectors' are not genuinely emotional in nature, drawing an analogy to how counterfeit money mimics but lacks the essenti
Importantly, the tweet by @itsolelehmann may be misleading. I stand by what I said but have some reason to think that @AmandaAskell’s views may have been misrepresented. Seeking clarification and will
literally my basic model since 1998. crazy that some people still haven’t figured this out. My basic model of capabilities: LLMs are good at problems similar to those that appear in their training dat
LLMs are “ good at math style problems, where you tell them A, B and C are true, and then ask them to figure out D [but] extremely bad at anything involving what I would call mature scholarship .. [so
OpenAI’s market share is slipping. ChatGPT is dying. OpenAI lost the crown as their market share fell below 40 percent for the first time ever. It stands at just 38.7 percent now after four straight m
Seriously. If you don’t understand the below, you really shouldn’t speculate about AI. It’s absolutely fundamental. literally my basic model since 1998. crazy that some people still haven’t figured th
Gary Marcus critiques the assumption that massive financial investment in AI scaling alone can solve fundamental challenges related to common sense reasoning in artificial intelligence systems. The po
OMG. Let’s get one thing straight. Claude doesn’t get anxious. It mimics people who get anxious. Those two things are NOT the same. My head is shaking so much I need medical attention. anthropic's in-
That didn't take long for a total U turn. First the Nvidia CEO boasted AI would take a vast number of jobs. But now that there's a huge backlash against AI, he cobbles together this cope - to try to p
Anthropic’s CEO keeps talking about AI wiping out jobs because he’s trying to IPO this year. If he positions Claude as armageddon for jobs, his TAM becomes “all white-collar human labor,” not just AI
Gary Marcus argues that Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) and Sam Altman (OpenAI CEO) share more similarities in their approaches to AI development and safety than commonly perceived, despite their public
Is a 92% “honest”* AI really good enough? Or a disaster waiting to happen? —- *”honest” is itself a misleading anthropomorphization of the kind Anthropic loves to promote. “Accurate” would be more acc
“my honest read is that a significant portion of this spending is driven by competitive fear rather than demonstrated returns. Nobody wants to be the company that didn't invest in AI when everyone els
Everyone’s quitting but everything’s going great. AGI will be here next week. Scout’s honor! This story has now been updated with more details. Three leaders departed from OpenAI today: - Kevin Weil,
Oh look! Anthropic's entire 'we are delaying Mythos' narrative was marketing hogwash. Kudos to FT for confirming what was obvious. Anthropic simply doesn't have the compute. FT: 'Multiple people with
“The sharpest drop came from people who used the model for direct answers, not from those who used it more like a hint system, which suggests the real issue is not AI exposure itself but replacing eff
Can people please stop taking shots at @sama, and boycott his company instead? Violence is not the answer. This is really bad. The scary part in the US is that it doesn’t matter whether you are the CE
@GaryMarcus Essentially your prediction that LLMs to scale wouldn’t solve key fundamental problems, reasoning, factual reliability, compositionality, grounded understanding etc are now elephantine chi
Gary Marcus advocates for applying Satyagraha—a principle of nonviolent resistance emphasizing moral conviction—as a response to contemporary challenges, likely in the context of AI development and go
Generative AI in nutshell: 'If the technology is as formidable as the [tech CEO's] claim, then they could be leading us toward existential disaster; if the technology proves less transformative, and t
I find it fascinating that OpenAI's Global Affairs team will denounce AI doomers for being too negative and then, simultaneously, advocate for an Illinois bill that would shield them from liability if
Prediction from a year ago about AI backlash that looks to be on track: Public backlash against AI will so be strong by 2028 that anti-AI sentiment will probably be a major factor in the 2028 US Presi
So true. “Being right too soon is socially unacceptable” I remember reading this from Heinlein as a young man and it took experience for me to fully understand it. People and institutions will persist
Stanford researchers tested the claims made by LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters that their AI-powered legal research tools are 'hallucination-free,' and found those claims to be inaccurate. The study re
What happens when you systematically oversell the value of your product for years, while pretty much screwing society along the way? Eventually your customers figure it out. Surprisingly, people see A
Anthropic believes that good transparency legislation needs to ensure public safety and accountability for the companies developing this powerful technology, not provide a get-out-of-jail-free card ag
China leaps ahead of the US in the race to control dangerously anthropomorphic AI. 🚨 BREAKING: China's new law on AI anthropomorphism has been officially enacted, and it is the world's STRICTEST law o
Elon Musk’s AI software, Grok, continues to generate sexualized images of people without their consent, despite his company’s pledge months ago to halt abusive deepfakes after a public backlash and go
Heartbreaking news, like losing a close friend. I learned so much at Hampshire College. For a tiny college it has had a disproportionate—and exceptionally positive—effect on the world. The world is a