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We’ve spent a lot of time on the framework underneath Codex, so it can move quickly on routine work while stopping for review when the risk changes. Here’s how we use sandboxing, approvals, network po

Gary Marcus argues that despite 3.5 years of rapid AI development and deployment, there is minimal empirical evidence that AI has significantly impacted overall economic productivity metrics. The post

Gary Marcus corrected a previous statement about power consumption, clarifying that the figure was 300 megawatts rather than 30 megawatts. This appears to be a technical correction posted on X regardi

contest time: First person to update this chart with no mistakes using an AI system and a general prompt (rather than one than that handholds the system every step of the win) wins a signed book! Plea

Elon Musk’s DOGE “blatantly used” race, gender and other protected characteristics to execute the largest mass termination of federal grants in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities

EO-1 is now available directly in LeRobot! You can train, evaluate, and deploy EO-1 through the standard LeRobot policy interface, making it much easier to try EO-1 on robot-control workflows. Huge th

Research indicates that people frequently follow advice provided by chatbots, yet this compliance with AI recommendations does not correlate with improved outcomes or subjective well-being. This sugge

First person to update this chart with no mistakes using an AI system and a general prompt (rather than one than that handholds the system every step of the win) wins a signed book! Please suppy your

Former OpenAI employee Rosie Campbell is the FIRST PERSON in the trial to point out that OpenAI's mission does NOT REQUIRE building AGI Undermines the entire justification for creating the for-profit

Helen Toner's deposition in Musk v Altman includes some striking quotes about Mira Murati's involvement with Altman's ouster. She said Mira was 'totally uninterested in telling her team that her conve

If point #4 is true, things are gonna get really wild. Hot take on Elon’s surprise decision to rent 30 megawatts of compute to Anthropic: 1. It’s a tacit concession that xAI is not all that close to A

This post appears to be a satirical commentary on social media sensationalism, using the absurd claim that Earth's revolution around the sun is 'breaking news' to critique how trivial or well-establis

Gary Marcus criticizes the credibility and practices of X (formerly Twitter) influencer accounts, likely highlighting misleading claims, engagement manipulation, or questionable expertise common among

One of the things that made the Mythos release hard to interpret is that Anthropic held back details on most vulns they found, to give defenders time to patch. 1 month later, info from orgs with acces

The illustration on this story is quite funny, but the study itself has quite big implications I think. The point is that there might be better ways to design AI systems so that they don’t simply do e

Theories are proven by accurate predictions. I first read @GaryMarcus in the late ’90s, and his ideas helped shape my deterministic ML frameworks, GAIuS & KATO. He’s been proven right repeatedly, yet

“they hadn’t figured out how OpenAI would pay for it” may turn out to be the epitaph for an entire era. 🪦 scoop from @anissagardizy8 @theinformation, and credit her with the great line “OpenAI has mad

Gary Marcus reflects on predictions he made two years prior and reaffirms his confidence in their accuracy. The post suggests Marcus is reviewing his track record on forecasts, likely related to artif

What happens when AIs become smarter than us? Why would they keep humans around if given the choice? Our new paper argues that only trying to control AIs is a limited strategy, and that a stable, mutu

Wow this paper has been “just published” many times for nearly a year. I have called out at least two other “influencers” for the same thing on the same paper, including another one earlier this week.

yep, really embarassing One of the richest VCs, Marc Andreessen, has shown again that he thinks generative AI works perfectly well if you use the right prompts, thus ignoring the statistical nature of

100% stood the test of time: “What Ilya saw” was Sam’s bad behavior, not AGI. When Altman got fired “What did Ilya see?” became a wildly popular conspiracy meme. I think we can safely say now that wha

2nd episode of The Roman Forum is an interview with AI Safety/Governance expert Connor Leahy @NPCollapse. Connor is a great speaker and is lobbying to get government to ban Superintelligence. My first

🚨Alphabet GOOGL trades at 133x free cash flow. For context: its pre-COVID multiple was ~20x. And free cash flow hasn't grown since 2021. GQG Partners — one of the world's top institutional investors —

Am I right that hyperscaling compute is the biggest bet in history? Any counter examples? It’s way more expensive than the Manhattan Project, the Apollo project, and railways across the US. If it does

Amazing the shit X gave me in November 2023 for saying Sam wasn’t always candid. He wasn’t. Period. Murati testified that, by fall 2023, Sam Altman was “not always” candid with her, and undermined her

And how many times have I told you that Sam is no longer the right CEO for OpenAI? Murati: My issues with Sam were very much around management and providing direction to the organization and decision

C’mon BBC. Zilis was sharp as a tack on the stand, on her role in the OpenAI *nonprofit* board, and how she managed conflicts as they began to develop, and this (which is not really even news since it

Gary Marcus clarifies that in the legal proceeding he's discussing, the jury serves an advisory role while the judge retains decision-making authority on the case outcome. Marcus expresses confidence

@Dr_Gingerballs At least actual ponzi schemes don't light their cash on fire... they just cant meet redemptions at the level of their inflated fake earnings. After all of the hyperscalers burn every l

@GaryMarcus I can't believe this is still a thing that 'experts' haven't caught up with. @GaryMarcus has been saying this forever, and those of us who have actually dug into the tech, analyzed it, use

How Sam ('You parachute him onto a cannibal island, and he comes back five years later as king”) Altman operates: counsel: 'by fall of 2023 did you percieve altman was not candid with you? truthful? h

I repeat, the bubble is in the 'e' not the 'p' in today's PE ratios. The hucksters and talking heads will, as always, fail to realize until it's too late. But it's a very simple set up. Hyperscalers g

If Forbes had only waited to hear the testimony at this week’s trial Or read @_KarenHao’s book Or @RonanFarrow’s @newyorker investigation Or my own writings since fall 2023 They would have realized ho

Important nuance: the jury at this Musk-OpenAI trial is an *advisory* jury, hence not binding on the judge, and is only looking at liability (not damages, if any). Thanks to @bahhradx for correcting a

just want to go back to how much intense pushback i got on this story at all levels of the company at the time, and how people speak very differently when under the threat of perjury lot of names etch

Tim Harford compares large language models to tricksters, arguing that LLMs excel at generating plausible-sounding text without necessarily ensuring accuracy or truthfulness. The article likely explor

Many trials feel like Rashomon with different witnesses. The amazing thing about Musk-OpenAI is how much agreement there has been (at least so far) on the facts. The question is really whether what Op

OpenAI violated Canadian privacy laws in developing first ChatGPT model, probe finds https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-openai-chatgpt-violated-canadian-privacy-laws-watchdogs-report/?ut

truly scary: anybody, no matter how noble, can be destroyed by misused AI. Artificial intelligence can create deceptive videos that rapidly damage a politician's public reputation. A new study reveals

What’s going on in semis is not sustainable per GS Everyone spending on AI is losing money except for semiconductor companies and the dynamic is “unprecedented and unsustainable” “Something has to cha

yep, we are about to live in a world where nobody trusts anything. just like Putin always wanted. congratulations! ps it will suck @GaryMarcus Or very soon no one will take any photo or video seriousl

AI music generator Udio just admitted in a court filing that it trained on audio scraped from YouTube videos. It’s already being sued by labels & artists for what they say is copyright infringement on

Alex Karp now sounding like @garymarcus. Sooner or later, everyone figures it out. Palantir CEO Alex Karp goes after AI slop. The fight over AI “slop” is really a fight over whether software is perfor

🚨 BOTH ALTMAN AND BROCKMAN SELF-DEALING ON CEREBRAS >Greg Brockman acquires personal Cerebras ownership in 2017 >Altman, separately, invests in Cerebras >Brockman pushes OpenAI to merge with Cerebras

Brockman confirms that Sam was fired for not being consistently candid. Crazy that @karaswisher blocked me for saying that the board fired Sam for not being consistently candid, when that is in fact w