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Eight reasons to slow down hyperscaling: • What GenAI has already done to society • What AI slop is doing to the internet • What data center overbuild is likely to do the economy • What data center ov
'If Bores wins the primary, it has the potential to clarify and perhaps even transform the federal debate about regulating artificial intelligence. On the other hand, if he loses, Bores and others fea
Only a narrative violation if you believed people with a lot of money at stake. • Most of the people that said lots of jobs would soon disappear were running LLM companies trying to overhype their war
“1.75 trillion dollar” company can’t do diddly-squat over impersonating accounts running (i have seen three in three days) like these stock scams and yet is supposedly gonna make orbiting data centers
arXiv:2509.11575v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Time series reasoning treats time as a first-class axis and incorporates intermediate evidence directly into the answer. This survey defines the pro
arXiv:2603.12901v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While diffusion models have emerged as a powerful class of generative models, their learning dynamics remain poorly understood. We address thi
Gary Marcus expresses appreciation for being mentioned alongside Demis Hassabis, the co-founder of DeepMind, in what appears to be a recognition or honor-related context. The post reflects Marcus's re
arXiv:2606.11626v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding multi-label images remains a challenging task in computer vision. With the rapid progress of vision-language multimodal learning, vision-l
arXiv:2606.11615v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The widespread adoption of face recognition (FR) technologies raises serious privacy concerns, as facial data can be exploited without consent. To addre
arXiv:2606.11535v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning-based policies are being considered to augment the dexterity of human surgeons in robot-assisted surgery. Can the end-to-end mapping from visua
arXiv:2606.11218v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ethical deliberation is often misunderstood as a search for single right or wrong answers, creating difficulties for non-ethically trained personnel w
and now the possible of drastic price cuts, a further sign of OpenAI’s desperation, as foreseen by me 2.5 years ago: Called the LLM price wars – which are about to heat up — over two years ago. See es
arXiv:2606.12384v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in agentic Reinforcement Learning (RL) have substantially improved the multi-turn tool-use capabilities of large language model agents
arXiv:2606.12366v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models that couple pretrained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) with continuous action experts have achieved strong manipulatio
arXiv:2606.11634v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid progress of reasoning and agentic large language models (LLMs) has increased the demand for long-context inference, but self-attention (SA) sc
Gary Marcus critiques fundamental mathematical or computational problems underlying an entire industry, suggesting widespread reliance on flawed or unsound methodologies. The commentary appears on Mar
arXiv:2604.06961v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Fairness in human-robot interaction critically depends on the reliability of the perceptual models that enable robots to interpret human behavior. W
arXiv:2606.12113v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformer-based language models for SMILES strings suffer from a locality gap: standard character-level tokenization fragments chemically meaningful
arXiv:2606.11576v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern Vision-Language Models (VLMs) benefit from chain-of-thought prompting and test-time scaling, but these gains often come with prohibitive infere
Bad things apparently come in 4’s; tweet below must be updated with the breaking @wsj news that OpenAI is contemplating drastic price cuts, which is surely a sign of weakness. So far today • Banks to
arXiv:2606.11893v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The correspondence between large language models (LLMs) and the neural mechanisms underlying human higher-order cognition remains insufficiently chara
arXiv:2606.12247v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Research on bias in large language models (LLMs) has predominantly focused on third-person audits, which study how models represent or evaluate demogr
arXiv:2606.11767v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Blind grasping with a dexterous hand is a crucial manipulation capability. Nevertheless, learning such tactile-only policies for real robots remains c
🚨 Breaking neuroscience/evolution news! New Nature paper provides further evidence for a central hypothesis (with a long lineage) that I defended in my 2004 book, The Birth of the Mind: the evolutiona
arXiv:2606.12258v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-domain day-night re-identification (ReID) is fundamentally challenged by the substantial visual appearance discrepancies between daytime and night
Called the LLM price wars – which are about to heat up — over two years ago. See especially predictions 3, 4, and 7, which laid out the no moat, small profit, price war regime we have seen ever since.
arXiv:2606.11678v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Problem, Research Strategy, and Findings: The rise of large language models (LLMs) raises a key question for urban planning: which forms of professional
arXiv:2606.11206v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) is the predominant paradigm for aligning large language models (LLMs), yet it suffers from optimization instability and lim
arXiv:2606.11925v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sign language translation (SLT) converts sign language video into spoken language text and holds significant promise for improving accessibility and ena
arXiv:2606.11891v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-objective reinforcement learning for humanoid robots must coordinate locomotion and manipulation within a single policy. A natural design choice
arXiv:2606.11616v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-quality training data is essential for the success of machine learning models. However, real-world datasets often contain mixed types of errors ari
arXiv:2606.11798v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we develop a continuous-time model-free reinforcement learning algorithm to learn deterministic equilibrium policies in general time-in
arXiv:2606.12245v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cold-start item recommendation remains a persistent challenge in real-world systems due to the absence of interaction histories. While prior models at
arXiv:2602.18291v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Online Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) is a prominent framework for efficient agent coordination. Crucially, enhancing policy expressivene
arXiv:2606.11408v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Action chunking has become a standard design in modern robot policies, from diffusion/flow policies to vision-language-action models, where the policy p
arXiv:2606.11555v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The escalating demand for mental healthcare, driven by rising societal stress, highlights the limitations of traditional psychiatric diagnostics. Conv
arXiv:2606.11341v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modular neural network pipelines suffer from error compounding: noise at any module boundary propagates and potentially amplifies through subsequent mod
arXiv:2509.20241v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As AI inference scales to billions of queries, estimates of per-query energy use are increasingly important for capacity planning, efficiency interv
arXiv:2606.11570v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose a spectral-based, unsupervised representation learning framework to derive low-dimensional embeddings for clinical concepts and patients in
arXiv:2606.11639v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The popularization of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems has increased exploration of the demographic biases related to race, age, gender, and a
arXiv:2606.12032v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contemporary AI alignment research treats self-preservation as an instrumental nuisance to be suppressed by external mechanisms. We argue the framing is
arXiv:2606.11806v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Production LLM systems accumulate reusable operational experience, but the practical deployment issue is not merely whether such experience can help. It
arXiv:2606.12406v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Contact-rich manipulation requires force sensitivity, but many robot arms lack dedicated force sensors due to their high cost. We present Neural Exter
arXiv:2606.12334v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-precision robotic manipulation requires fine-grained spatial reasoning that is often difficult to achieve with RGB-only policies due to depth ambig
arXiv:2606.11286v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-content imaging assays quantify cellular responses to chemical and genetic perturbations, yet continuous trajectories of individual cells are uno
arXiv:2606.11572v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transfer learning from large-scale RGB foundation models to infrared (IR) imagery through knowledge distillation (KD) remains challenging due to fundame
arXiv:2606.07537v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models hallucinate--producing fluent, confident, factually wrong outputs--with a consistency that persists across generations and scale
arXiv:2606.11214v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Algorithmic fairness is essential for responsible ML-driven public health research, yet its practical implementation remains limited. To investigate t
arXiv:2602.08735v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made substantial progress in single-image spatial reasoning, multi-image spatial reasoning, whic
arXiv:2606.11207v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present SemantiClean, a modular framework for extracting structured semantic signals from e-commerce session data and driving pluggable inference tar
arXiv:2509.10303v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Online reinforcement learning (RL) approaches have demonstrated strong performance on Job Shop Scheduling (JSP) and Flexible JSP (FJSP) proble
arXiv:2606.11263v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spectral methods rely fundamentally on the stability of principal eigenspaces under random perturbations. Classically, this stability is quantified by
arXiv:2606.11382v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep learning models facilitate the discovery of molecules with tailored properties among billions of candidate compounds. However, the computational bu
arXiv:2509.16456v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in various domains, showing impressive potential on different tasks. Recently, reasoning LLMs hav
arXiv:2606.11559v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning typically improves multi-turn agent capabilities through the terminal outcome of the trajectories, which makes it difficult to de
arXiv:2606.11744v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are now widely used for everyday learning, but the underlying interactions are typically unstructured chats rather than followin
Hot take on a bad day for OpenAI: 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. Their apparent p
Gary Marcus discusses whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act adequately protects AI systems and companies from legal liability, suggesting that existing protections may not fully apply
arXiv:2606.11652v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper investigates reinforcement learning (RL) methods for improving tool-calling capabilities in multimodal small language model (SLM) agents. Whi
Gary Marcus poses a philosophical question about emotional attachment to AI companies, likely exploring whether people have genuine emotional stakes in the success or failure of specific AI organizati