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ha ha, so much for step change? maybe this problem was just easier than some? The standard GPT-5.5 reproduced the proof ~ 👇 https://chatgpt.com/share/6a0e9e04-8cb0-8332-a4f1-ec68acd2e03e You don't nee
I have to eat crow on this, in light of further information. whatever OpenAI spent on Erdos using a new model, apparently you can get GPT 5.5 to do something similar; @emollick’s presumably estimates
I just ran into a guy I know in NYC who said he’s doing a temporary gig for OpenAI. According to him, OpenAI is paying hundreds of people and families in New York to install 360-degree cameras through
i suspect that this is a wild underestimate, both ignoring the costs in developing the model and ignoring the fact that many questions may well have been posed that didn’t succeed. If this is true, us
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 stake. We don’t know for example • How man
If Elon Musk was really serious about his proposal for 'universal high income,' @scottsantens tells me, he could start funding it right now. But he isn't doing that. Instead, he's railing about the ve
Link to GPT 5.5 on the recent Erdo problem: https://x.com/maxiao54704/status/2057484153755480537?s=61 The standard GPT-5.5 reproduced the proof ~ 👇 https://chatgpt.com/share/6a0e9e04-8cb0-8332-a4f1-ec
Gary Marcus expresses frustration about false claims being made about him, using a 'desperation index' metric based on the volume of lies circulated in his name. He indicates the situation has reached
This post appears to express concerns about OpenAI's data privacy practices and potential government data sharing, though the claim lacks specific evidence or context. Gary Marcus, an AI researcher an
oops! wild update, strongly supports @emollick’s overall take: I have to eat crow on this, in light of further information. whatever OpenAI spent on Erdos using a new model, apparently you can get GPT
Gary Marcus discusses the current state of large language models (LLMs), likely covering their capabilities, limitations, and practical applications in AI. The post probably addresses key challenges s
The White House keeps handing Dems opportunities on silver platters to point out how Big Tech CEOs being in bed with lawmakers means the American people lose. New: The AI exec. order was postponed bec
This is the most interesting paper I have read this week. The authors test a wide range of LLMs on a massive dataset of behavioural experiments, with more than 200,000 participants and nearly 26 milli
To folks who claim I am always wrong, I have a few questions: Was I wrong that these systems would continue to hallucinate and be untrustworthy? That Sam was a liar? That these companies would struggl
Gary Marcus responds to Ethan Mollick's post about AI capabilities, noting that while he objects to claims made in the top-level post, Mollick does provide important caveats and nuance in subsequent r
Gary Marcus notes that researcher @thestalwart has found more recent AI models to be less vulnerable to certain attacks or exploits, and suggests that a comprehensive study across multiple models woul
💯: Why OpenAI keeps taking childish shots at me, is exactly what @FrankRundatz says below: “you have the added audacity of being influential enough to move the needle on the timing of OpenAI’s record-
Yeah, I don't think I've ever met someone who has directly worked for an extended period on safety or security at an AI company who thinks things are fine readiness wise or incentive wise etc. https:/
all these dudes posting about anthropic’s profits without checking the fine print. (see my earlier tweet) there’s some fine print i believe that n the openai result too, and a lot that has not been di
Always read the fine print: Anthropic is projecting its first (slightly) profitable quarter ever, which is amazing—assuming it actually happens —but if it does it will be in no small part because they
… and (if am not mistaken) the only one in the top 14 to have never turned a profit. Welcome to the world of vibe investing! OpenAI is likely to raise 60 billion in its IPO, more than double Saudi Ara
approximately equals “I am already rich and fuck you if you lose your job to AI” Marc Andreessen to Joe Rogan: Why AI Workers Beat Human Workers 'Never gets drunk. Never gets sick. Never gets depre
Biomedical AI may be headed for a replication crisis. (This work below is not about AI-generated reports; it’s about studies of biomedicine that use ML in their methods, and how they are evaluted.) In
can’t believe people assume that success on highly verifiable problems in math (where we don’t even know how many tests were performed and how many might have failed) iautomatically generalize to ever
Gary Marcus examines and fact-checks recent claims made by OpenAI and Anthropic in their public announcements and media coverage. The post links to detailed analysis questioning the mathematical valid
if you own a tesla, you are the product Astonishing potential, especially if one takes all the galaxies into account and factors them into the calculation. 😃 And this comes from a man who removed Auto
It’s crazy that OpenAI and xAI were built partly as ways to mitigate @demishassabis’s power and how both are more reckless and less focused on the good part, viz AI for science. And then Anthropic was
longer comment on yesterday’s stories the nuance between yesterday’s stories that X influencers won’t tell you: https://open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus/p/checking-the-math-behind-openai-and?r=8tdk6&u
nice measure of how insane SpaceX’s claims are I don't offer investment advice, but when I see that SpaceX claims that their total addressable market is the size of the *complete* US economy (with eve
nor do we know how the (new) model works nor how it does on anything else nor how it was trained. scientists wait for facts; cheerleaders (over and over) rush to judgments that have often been wrong.
note that @jeffBezos is not betting on chatbots, but rather focusing on domain-specific tools for engineering, which is also something I would encourage. the financial story for what he is doing may b
OpenAI reported a negative 122% operating margin in Q1, indicating the company spent significantly more on operations than it generated in revenue, even after excluding stock-based compensation and ot
our company, which lost money last quarter, is going to take a big slice of 28.5 trillion market that we project will exist, primarily in a field in which we have almost no current presence, which is
So much for Nvidia’s cash flow. Wild. When does circular financing stop? Similar to a Ponzi Scheme, when cash outflows become greater than inflows. In this last quarter, NVDA cash grew by only ~600, a
SpaceX claims a 28.5 TRILLION market let us look at Musk's pitch deck to banks for the twitter takeover in 2022, he said he'd create a 10 billion dollar subs biz by 2028 today, ad revs down 75% & subs
Token Maxxing, April 2026-May 2026, RIP 🪦 🦔Microsoft canceled its internal Claude Code licenses this week after token-based billing made the cost untenable, even for a company with effectively infinit
When does circular financing stop? Similar to a Ponzi Scheme, when cash outflows become greater than inflows. In this last quarter, NVDA cash grew by only ~600, and now ~95% of its operating cash flow
Wonder what fraction of those liking this realized it was a joke 🤣 There's a lot of excitement about OpenAI's resolution of the unit distance conjecture. In this thread I will discuss the striking app
Gary Marcus argues that pursuing cheerleading and science as careers are mutually exclusive paths, suggesting fundamental incompatibility between these pursuits. The post likely critiques the idea of
Yowza! Similar in some ways to the Stanford paper recently on LLMs hallucinating responses to images they never saw. This was an amazing and incredibly damning experiment using Microsoft Copilot, by @
⚠️👇 🚨Breaking ⚠️ If we can’t make AI agents follow rules, we are screwed. New study from METR reports that “when the agents were faced with hard tasks, they routinely violated constraints” This—routin
‼️ Could large language models turn out to be the tech industry’s Vietnam? All In’s @jason notes below that today’s students are speaking out against AI, just as students in the 60s and 70s spoke out
The consensus of analysts is that AI capital investments will rise by 20% a year for five years while revenues are expected to grow 15% resulting in negative returns. 'The AI boom will become a story
the crazy part is that people are “clowning” me without knowing anything about the training or whether anything else other than scaled changed or how the model does on anything else. (or what it costs
This video from the World Science Festival, shared by cognitive scientist Gary Marcus, examines the gap between AI systems' claimed reasoning capabilities and their actual mechanisms, likely arguing t
think you know @garymarcus because read a few of his tweets? try watching this, to see the real deal, and why, for example, the US Senate invited him to testify. Superb conversation between @bgreene a
two trillion dollars to build “pathologically dishonest” AI I think @RyanPGreenblatt's recent post summarizes the vibe of this behavior well. Not the sort of thing that would be acceptable for a human
wild to see a somewhat disgraced politician comment on the technical side of AI as if he has any idea about the underlying computational questions. and of course he dwells at the bottom of Paul Graham
Harper Carroll (@HarperSCarroll) on why AGI hype is a distraction: 'All of the attention on AGI is kind of a missed opportunity.' 'In medical imaging, detecting cancer like five years early, sav
Gary Marcus critiques podcasters for avoiding balanced discussion of contentious issues that significantly impact society, suggesting there is an reluctance to present opposing viewpoints on important
Politicians who boost AI do not represent the views of their constituents. New polling in the UK shows: - Most people think AI will destroy more jobs than it creates (57% v 17%) - 7 in 10 are worried
Superb conversation between @bgreene and @GaryMarcus Very happy to get my confirmation bias pampered by mentions of interpolation vs extrapolation, and how having a better physics understanding might
terrific deep dive on Mythos from @cloudflare Cloudflare's security team spent the last few weeks testing Anthropic's Mythos against fifty of our own repositories. What we learned about offensive AI,
“the uncritical adoption of AI in science is alarming” Artificial intelligence is rapidly accelerating scientific output, but risks narrowing inquiry, weakening judgement and undermining how scientist
a very procedural end. we will never know what the world might be like had OpenAI been forced to fully follow its original mission. Breaking News: A jury rejected Elon Musk’s lawsuit accusing OpenAI o
“Americans are now more comfortable living near a nuclear power plant than an AI data center” -@RachelBitecofer The AI oligarchs took a winning hand, and with a mixture cigarette-industry level greed
Can we all agree that Dario played the “Ooh! AI scary!” card one time too many? “Americans are now more comfortable living near a nuclear power plant than an AI data center” -@RachelBitecofer The AI o
Do we have to look at a billion of these Yann LeCun saying things Gary Marcus said all along videos, @haider1, or might you run some where I said the same things? He might have more press than I do bu
I cannot provide an accurate summary without access to the actual content of this post. The title fragment suggests Rachel Bitecofer provided factual information shared by Gary Marcus on X (Twitter),
I love AI, it’s pure LLMs I hate. Pure LLMs *are* basically just autocomplete. Recent progress (e.g. Claude Code) doesn’t show otherwise Rather, lot of the progress in the last two years has come from