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just imagine what might happen if everybody was stockpiling GPUs at high prices for a demand that didn’t quite materialize…. So, look surprised: xAI, which is now part of SpaceX, stockpiled too many N
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
Many, many OpenAI employees quit over safety concerns, including @DKokotajlo, William Saunders, @sjgadler, etc as well @Janleike. The founders of Anthropic such as @DarioAmodei and @jackclarkSF may ha
Gary Marcus criticizes the credibility and practices of X (formerly Twitter) influencer accounts, likely highlighting misleading claims, engagement manipulation, or questionable expertise common among
Nvidia's stock rose 2.6% following news that xAI is selling 220,000 used GPUs on the secondhand market, potentially indicating a shift in AI hardware demand or xAI's operational priorities. The report
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
Terence Tao recognized that plausibility and veracity are not the same, and that current tools are better at the former than the latter. [edit: the video is from 2024, and affirms what i said in 2019
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
There have been several high profile incidents of OpenAI and a16z's super PAC Leading the Future (and its affiliate Build American AI) engaging in pretty egregious astroturfing. But it's also notable
“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
Jan Leike, OpenAI's safety and alignment lead, resigned in May 2024, citing concerns about the company's commitment to safety practices and the deprioritization of safety work relative to product deve
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
🚨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
Mira Murati’s testimony is gripping – and what it makes absolutely clear is how utterly wrong most of Twitter was about why Sam was fired. – It had nothing per se to do with AI safety - It had nothing
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
Precisely what I have been saying since day 1: the challenge in generative AI is reliability. That was the challenge, and still is. AI pretenders vs. AI contenders. It's those who still haven’t realiz
The last sentence in this abstract is really important, in a way that professional programmers will immediately recognize: the models favored big single files rather than breaking things into modules.
👇 This is an incredible admission by Jensen Huang. Effectively he is saying that AI, for all the hype (some from himself) wasn’t really useful until late 2025. Let that sink in. This means practically
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
Brockman’s counsel is doing a good job of laying out the timeline — but done little so far to refute yesterday’s dissection of her client’s self-dealing and dodgy behavior regarding his fiduciary resp
Can’t believe that dopey CMU ML professor tried to convince me that hallucinations had been solved. 🙄 Researchers at EPFL proved your AI is lying to you. Not sometimes. Most of the time. They built on
Elon: Let’s settle. Greg: Nope. Elon: Ok, let’s talk about your diaries, then. On the eve of trial, Elon Musk reached out to Greg Brockman about a potential settlement, according to court documents fi
Folks, AFAIK this is *literally not a possible outcome of the trial*, as Elon has waived the right to any cash payment to him, instead assigning any monetary damages to OpenAI’s nonprofit. @PursueOpti
Gary Marcus reflects on changing public perception of Sam Altman, noting that skepticism toward Altman's claims was once dismissed as hatred but has become more mainstream. The post suggests a shift i
I predict this will be the most embarrassing cover in the history of this magazine. This is like putting Enron executives on your cover, or doing a gauzy special report on Bernie Madoff. Sam Altman is
Important new development. AI company employees have an enormous amount of power — far more than they realize. Absent legislation, AI co worker power is one of the key levers to shaping what the indus
In vividly explaining how he deceived Musk about his commitment to the nonprofit, without a trace of remorse, OpenAI’s Brockman has done Musk’s counsel quite a service. Brockman’s also been pretty gre
“Indispensable reading” If you aren’t reading my newsletter, you probably should be! Today’s dispatch is on the Dawkins Debacle and cites @GaryMarcus, who has been indispensable reading over the last
Katie Miller began following Gary Marcus on X (formerly Twitter). Gary Marcus is a cognitive scientist and AI researcher known for his public commentary on artificial intelligence and technology polic
Major new class action lawsuit accuses Meta of copyright infringement around AI training. It says they trained on pirated books, and that AI books flooding the market demonstrates market harm. These l
This post by AI researcher Gary Marcus appears to reference a witness or testimony related to Elon Musk, using a lighthearted tone to encourage civil discourse. Without access to the specific tweet co
This post by AI researcher Gary Marcus summarizes major events in OpenAI's recent history across three acts: ChatGPT's record-breaking success, the dramatic firing and rehiring of CEO Sam Altman, and
So let me make sure I’ve got this correct: >Google gives Anthropic cash to pay Google for compute. >anthropic gives compute away for a loss, and this discounted compute draws in large user bases to ca
Some things never change. If you don’t understand this one, you don’t understand what’s happening AI. Marcus, 1998: neural nets have trouble generalizing far beyond the data. Marcus, 2001, 2012, 2019,
The crux of the Musk-OpenAI trial so far is that Brockman keeps acting as if selling chatbots and API access for profit (which is what they do now) is exactly the same as the original mission (which w
Gary Marcus highlights a concerning trend where non-technical teams are directly deploying production code, which raises significant risks around quality control, security, and system reliability in f