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Also not a sign of someone who has any clue about the realities of current neuroscience. Sam Altman has admitted he is on a waitlist for a procedure that would digitize his brain. The procedure would
Folks, you can relax. Mythos is not some off-trend exponential gain. And the gains weren’t about recursive self-improvement. Good thread from @ramez. Anthropic's Mythos does not appear to show any acc
AI critic Gary Marcus argues that GenAI's popularity has plateaued, with a landmark MIT study finding that only 5% of enterprise AI pilots generate revenue, while most deliver little to no measura...
A study commissioned by *The New York Times* and conducted by AI startup Oumi tested 4,326 Google searches using the SimpleQA benchmark, finding that Google's AI Overviews were accurate 85% of the...
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My considered opinion is that The Mythos stuff was mostly a myth. Take it as a serious warning sign that we need to get our act together with respect to cybersecurity. But don’t take the details serio
Perhaps because professional investors would look more carefully at the numbers? Wouldn’t want that! OpenAI intends to set aside a share allocation for retail investors when the company goes public, t
AI critic and cognitive scientist Gary Marcus publicly challenged the economic rationale behind Project Stargate, the Trump-announced $500 billion AI infrastructure initiative, arguing that the mat...
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This – “The CEO of Google DeepMind (@demishassabis) just admitted that if the decision had been his, we would've cured cancer before anyone ever used ChatGPT.” is exactly what i am trying to say in my
Yesterday’s Mythos announcement from Anthropic was overblown. • Sandboxing was turned off, so test didn’t show much about the real world. • Cheap open-weight models can (already) do some similar stuff
1. If true (and it does fit with my perceptions FWIW), this is an amazing and incredibly damning graph 2. Can anyone find the source on which it is based? 'Anthropic, OpenAl and Google release their n
🤯 AI doesn’t need to be AGI to cause harm! 🤯 ChatGPT can’t reliably run a timer but it has still been implicated in delusions, suicides, cognitive surrender, mass disinformation, and so much more. A s
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Director James Cameron on why Big Tech owning AGI is scarier than any science fiction he's ever made: 'AGI will not emerge from a government funded program. It will emerge from one of the tech giants
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link to @HeidyKhlaaf’s sharp analysis: As someone who has audited dozens of safety-critical systems, built static analysis tools, and used most formal verification and security tools, here are some re
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“Social media algs reward engagement, and LLMs are excellent at writing in different styles, so people use LLMs to translate posts and news stories into [exaggerated, misleading] versions that get mor
Some sober thinking about Mythos (full version with links at my newsletter): 1It’s probably not as bad as they say, as AI and cybersecurity expert @HeidyKhlaaf explains elsewhere (in a thread “As some
The scariest part of this is that Anthropic showed some restraint in not releasing a potentially dangerous technology but some of their competitors (such as OpenAI and xAI) might well not. Whether Myt
this is interesting. 1. Did Anthropic forget to run a control? 2. Where does this leave us? New post: We tested the Mythos showcase vulnerabilities with open models. They recovered similar scoped anal
This is literally why I wrote Taming Silicon Valley. Director James Cameron on why Big Tech owning AGI is scarier than any science fiction he's ever made: 'AGI will not emerge from a government funded
To anyone who read Rebooting AI back in (checks notes) 2019, this is both hilarious and unsuprising. The field has wasted 7 years on an architecture that can’t solve one of the most basic litmus tests
AI critic Gary Marcus uses the irony of ChatGPT's Voice mode being unable to perform a basic task — starting a timer — as a pointed illustration of the gap between AI industry hype and real-world c...
What Should We Take From Anthropic’s (possibly) Terrifying New Report on Mythos? – @garymarcus’s latest @CACMmag https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/what-should-we-take-from-anthropics-possibly-terrifying
More on the @nytimes piece about that $1.8B, two-person, AI company ... not the paper's finest moment in quick retrospect. And in the healthcare context no less. Our friend @GaryMarcus was on this a f