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I sat down with @JonHernandezIA in Madrid to discuss the growing risks and impacts of AI and the urgent need to improve our social, political, and technical safeguards. Thanks for an excellent convers

“Marcus's repeated warnings about the 'wall of generalization' since 1998 have once again been proven true.” Marcus氏が1998年から繰り返す'汎化の壁'の警告。またも証明された。完璧なAIを待つより、今の限界を熟知して使いこなすチームが勝つ。少人数ゆえの意思決定の速さとリスク許容度が

not every day @scaling01 and I agree. but he’s right. and most people won’t notice it happening, per the work of @informor. hot take: unrestricted LLMs are as dangerous as weapons of mass destruction

Gary Marcus references a conversation with someone named Haider, noting that despite Haider's typically optimistic outlook, he has shared documented evidence of expressing concerns about a particular

Sam Altman's personal investments faced increased scrutiny from Republican lawmakers following reporting by The Wall Street Journal in April regarding potential conflicts of interest. The controversy

Opinion: It is rare for the US public to agree on anything these days. Fear of AI is as close to a national consensus as it gets. A clear majority says that AI will do more harm than good. https://ft.

Pay attention to this one if you build research or knowledge-work agents. Most research-agent systems produce uniform outputs regardless of who is driving them. This new work, NanoResearch, argues tha

So basically Anthropic’s estimated valuation went up half a trillion dollars in a couple weeks (then back down a bit) on hype. Small wonder that companies like OpenAI, Anthropic and Tesla keep hyping

speaks for itself Musk's lawyer: 'Are you completely trustworthy?' Altman: 'I believe so.' Musk's lawyer: 'But, you know, you don't know whether you're completely trustworthy.' Altman: 'I'll just amen

The FT says that Amazon employees are doing random unnecessary task automations to consume tokens and to show their bosses that they're using AI more https://www.ft.com/content/8ee0d3ef-9548-422d-8ff1

tl;dr - let's not just remove negative behavior from models, but also add positive ones 👍 If anyone builds it, everyone thrives. Over the past decade, a lot of important work on AI alignment has focus

'We're going to reach a point of diminishing returns from scaling. That's what actually happened. The industry knows this. But doesn't want to tell you.' @GaryMarcus, AI Expert, Scientist & Author at

wow! “It is the [House] Committee’s understanding that the new board of directors at OpenAI tried to address these problems upon your return by creating an “audit committee to review potential conflic

Ah yes, chatGPT, tell me more about the 'colony mind', 'foraging patrol' and 'nost building' behaviors of the human liver. For anyone predicting near-term physician replacement by LLM-based AI, please

AI existential crisis for software engineers is to go live in the woods and read poetry. AI existential crisis for creatives is to make things until 4am every day because you can't stop now. is this w

Am old enough to remember when @GeoffreyHinton told me I was stupid for saying that LLMs regurgitate training data. He was wrong. LLM regurgitation is now one of the best-established findings in the f

🚨BREAKING: Ilya just confirmed under oath what he saw: Sam lying. And he confirmed that he thought it was appropriate to fire Altman for it. And that he had been concerned for about Sam for a long tim

Checkmate to everyone on X who doubted my coverage of Sam’s firing. Checkmate. 🚨BREAKING: Ilya just confirmed under oath what he saw: Sam lying. And he confirmed that he thought it was appropriate to

Compute is scarce and has to be bought years in advance, before companies know whether revenue will ever catch up. That is exactly the nature of the largest gamble in history. Heaven help the global e

Dear @geoffreyhinton, I literally never said that AI systems “JUST regurgitate”; that’s plainly false. I don’t believe it, and I didn’t say it. (They do *sometimes* regurgitate, and the evidence for t

Epistemological standards in SF venture capital are so low that you can write this, and everyone will simply nod along. The actual evidence, including a recent NBER paper on thousands of firms, finds:

Ex-OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever claims to have collected proof of Sam Altman’s alleged dishonesty https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-openai-trial-sutskever-sam-altman-musk/?utm_sourc

Excellent explainer video by @FryRsquared on the risks of AI agents. She also raises a crucial point: we shouldn’t make the mistake of thinking current limitations will necessarily persist. As we’ve s

🤔Going to be in Vancouver tomorrow? 🧐Curious about whether or not scaling AI is a bad bet? 😎Catch TPN founder @zacharykarabell's chat with @GaryMarcus at @WebSummit at 10:20am. 🎟️Get your tickets here

Gonna keep retweeting, because this flawed move never dies: AI hype has become a giant game of bait and switch. the bait: we are going to make an AI that can solve any problem a expert human could sol

If you believe this nonsense, and a lot of people do, I beg you to read my newsletter called “Misplaced Panic Over AI progress” 🙏 we are exactly 4.5 steps away from achieving AGI!! People are not read

Important Nature Neuroscience paper shows how humans differ from LLMs. Many people currently believe that humans are just next-word predictors, like LLMs. But this new paper by Zou, Poeppel and Ding s

🚨 In his testimony just now, at the Musk-OpenAI trial, Satya Nadella came off as shrewd, calm, and (mostly) honest, an impressive leader – but also selectively blind. How? He seemed unable to believe

It is insane that we allow big tech to race toward superintelligence without any oversight. This is a grave national security risk. Industry will not regulate itself. Get trained with Torchbearer to a

Michael Burry urged investors to scale back exposure to surging technology stocks, saying the current market environment has reached historically dangerous extremes reminiscent of prior speculative bu

Mythos identified one genuine vulnerability in cURL while also reporting three false positives and one issue classified as a bug during their security analysis. The post references cURL's founder or l

@NameInteger @GaryMarcus @geoffreyhinton Hinton's argument was about encoding: LLMs don't encode text as text, but as weighted matrices. It makes no difference. Memorised data is memorised data no mat

Not even surprised by horrific stories like these anymore. The mission of getting LLMs aligned with human values has largely been a failure. NEW: ChatGPT advised the FSU shooter that a mass shooting w

oh. my. god. 😱 FT Exclusive: NHS England has granted external staff from companies including Palantir “unlimited access” to identifiable patient data while working on a part of its flagship data platf

One estimate of how much annual revenue AI needs to “make sense”: 1.6 trillion. That’s four times what Google made in its best year. (total revenue so far is perhaps on order of 100 billion.) In 2024

Openclaw token consumption dropped 50% within a month according to OpenRouter usage data, as reported by Gary Marcus. The post likely discusses potential causes for this significant decline, such as c

Gary Marcus analyzes and critiques Geoffrey Hinton's arguments regarding weaknesses in deep learning and artificial neural networks. The article likely examines specific technical or conceptual claims

reply to Hinton’s reply to me, for additional context: Dear @geoffreyhinton, I literally never said that AI systems “JUST regurgitate”; that’s plainly false. I don’t believe it, and I didn’t say it. (

Science publishing giant Elsevier has joined the dozens of firms and individuals suing artificial intelligence companies over their alleged use of copyrighted works in training AI models https://go.na

Serious question: Should I write a short book called 7 lies about AI that never die? AI hype has become a giant game of bait and switch. the bait: we are going to make an AI that can solve any problem

Since Hinton has actually replied let me clarify some things - LLMS don’t *always* regurgitate - LLMs don’t literally store full texts - but given the mechanisms that they use they do sometimes regurg

That @NIST CAISI announcement from last week about Google DeepMind, xAI and Microsoft signing new deals for pre-deployment testing is gone from their website, link no longer found, and I can't get any

Gary Marcus critiques the typical hype cycle pattern where emerging technologies experience inflated expectations followed by inevitable disappointment. The post likely illustrates this cycle using a

This post from AI researcher Gary Marcus likely discusses the enormous economic value or potential return on investment related to artificial intelligence developments, suggesting AI's worth or impact

what i have been saying for 6 years. maybe now you will believe it? 📁 Fei-Fei Li, former Google Chief Scientist, says the industry is dangerously fixated on language models. Most of the real economy i

Which has better odds? Generative AI earning $1.6 trillion/year or the roulette wheel landing on zero? One estimate of how much annual revenue AI needs to “make sense”: 1.6 trillion. That’s four times