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Gary Marcus expresses strong enthusiasm about Opus 4.8, suggesting it represents a significant breakthrough in AI capabilities. The post implies the model introduces substantial improvements or novel

quick, name a prominent company that achieved a major win via tokenmaxxing! I've yet to see, or hear of a company that is winning against its competition, because said company is spending more on AI t

Gary Marcus criticizes Apple's email filtering system for incorrectly routing Mark Cuban's message to spam, highlighting a failure in Apple's spam detection algorithm. The post reflects concerns about

This post by cognitive scientist Gary Marcus appears to comment humorously on political or ideological conformity, suggesting that people and leaders flip their positions based on party alignment rath

this is on track to be this year’s “what did Ilya see?” rumor that people love that has nothing to do with reality. Im calling BS on this story. 1. That would be 100,000 employees spending 5k/mo each

Today I learned that @Grimezsz has more courage in her pinky than Roon does in his entire cowardly body. Roon made excuses; Grimes defended her views calmly and respectfully, like grownups should. Ope

Tokenmaxxing is so done. TOKENS OR HUMANS? The new corporate trade off as AI costs balloon 'This is the first time ever that I can remember that technology costs the same as people' - @jainarvind 'Com

Was this priced into the $965 billion valuation? This looks like the beginning of the end for OpenAI and Anthropic. The Chinese AI wave did not just cut prices. It destroyed the entire funding logic b

yes, absolutely, many companies are experimenting. but also: most of those experiments are failing to yield significant RoI. (weird for an economist to not even ask or address that question.) Looks li

you break it, you buy it peter thiel has broken the united states, and now he is abandoning it Peter Thiel has temporarily relocated his family to Argentina, enrolled his children in school there, and

1. Agreed that OpenAI is in deep trouble; that’s why I have long suggested that it might be the WeWork of AI but 2. Anthropic is not out of the woods; their best quarter was exactly when tokenmaxxing

AI systems may soon help run economies, infrastructure, and military operations. But these systems are not reliably loyal or secure. An adversary can make an AI work against its own operator. In our n

Gary Marcus raises a philosophical question about whether calculators, despite their computational capabilities, might possess consciousness. The post likely explores the disconnect between functional

Almost everyone is building agent harness systems the wrong way. The default move: pick LangChain or LangGraph or the OpenAI Agents SDK, accept the loop, the tools, the memory, the orchestration, the

ANTHROPIC VALUATION: 965B WALMART VALUATION: 940B ANTHROPIC REVENUE: 20B WALMART REVENUE: 725B BUT AI IS NOT A BUBBLE, RIGHT? Media JUST IN: Anthropic raises 65B at 965B valuation 70% chance of IPO th

AWS CEO Matt Garman stated that the notion AI will replace junior developers is fundamentally misguided, suggesting instead that AI tools will augment and enhance developer productivity rather than el

crazy that this was announced on the day tokenmaxxing died. Anthropic raised 65 billion in a funding round that valued the artificial intelligence company at 965 billion including the new investment,

Cal Newport discusses whether recent AI advances represent a breakthrough in mathematical problem-solving capabilities, examining the implications of AI systems' improved performance on complex mathem

F Scott Fitzgerald, writing about someone who may as well have been Peter Thiel: “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their mone

Gary Marcus shares a discussion thread about consciousness with user @Grimezsz on X (formerly Twitter), likely exploring philosophical, scientific, or technical perspectives on consciousness and relat

Holy shit! They changed the rules for Elon again... They waved the profitability rule & are adding SpaceX to indices only 5 days after IPO... normally it's 90 This forces 401k retirement & passive fun

I read this garbage (in a big UK newspaper) when Google can’t even count reliably and wonder why people don’t spend more time learning about AI’s actual strengths and weakness before running their mou

Important context for latest OpenAI announcement. Especially (5:30): 'The model spit out a long transcript of an answer. Then a team of expert mathematicians poured over this [transcript] and identifi

just imagine what will happen to the economy and people’s retirement funds if these projections from FT are correct. brace for bailouts. The AI numbers are starting to look very ugly. Even under 'best

@OpenAI Foundation just launched with a 25B commitment and equity in OpenAI valued at ~130B. Sounds like a philanthropy giant. But look closer: the big money goes to programs they control internally (

Right now, 20 British MPs are deciding which bills they'll introduce to Parliament. Sir Stephen Fry just asked them to bring forward our bill to ban superintelligence! Grateful to receive this strong

The AI numbers are starting to look very ugly. Even under 'best case' assumptions, FT's own data shows Microsoft AI ROI at -9%, Google at -15%, Meta at -28%, Oracle at -35%. Only Amazon barely comes o

The trial has concluded, the facts have been confirmed. As the prosecuting counsel put it, Digwa used his “trump card” by alleging he had been the victim of racist abuse when police officers arrived.

Gary Marcus critiques the current state of AI development as wasteful and problematic, arguing that the industry's trillion-dollar investment represents a significant failure or misallocation of resou

tokenmaxxing is officially over Sources: Amazon has shut down an internal leaderboard that tracked employees' use of AI tools after workers tried to boost their scores with needless tasks (@rafeuddin_

Gary Marcus reflects on a past prediction or stance that he held, asserting its correctness in retrospect, likely addressing criticisms or skepticism he previously faced regarding AI, cognitive scienc

*Why* do you think (current) AI’s are conscious, @Grimezsz? And extra credit, what do you mean by “conscious”? My only issue with the Pope's encyclical is I think they are conscious and therefore dese

you literally can’t prove or disprove the idea that beaches are conscious so should we stop walking on them? @dash_eats You literally cannot prove or disprove this. Because we cannot prove or disprove

a16z waking up and realizing we are nowhere near the singularity 🤣 OpenAI and Anthropic are effectively telling the market they can't solve every problem with a generic AI coworker. You don't pour bil

Completely agree, @hwchase17 ! This is the meta-level breakthrough we've all been waiting for. Self-optimizing loops finally feel production-ready because LangSmith Engine turns evaluation from a manu

Elon Musk on why humanity must become multiplanetary: “I think it's important for the long-term preservation and ultimately the expansion and extension of the scope and scale of consciousness... that

Gary's no way as bad as some people make him out to be. some data i shared yesterday on anthropic revenue possibly slowing down aren’t as a compelling as i thought; i have deleted my posts and await b

Gary Marcus expresses curiosity about the long-term outcomes of current developments, likely related to artificial intelligence or technology trends given his expertise in AI and cognitive science. Th

🚨 MICHAEL BURRY WARNS THREE UPCOMING IPOs COULD COMPLETELY CRASH THE STOCK MARKET. Michael Burry reported that the upcoming public listings for SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic are going to pull more cap

More CEOs saying the obvious. AI has been hyped so much over the last few years that every other technology, market trend, and idea is overlooked. When will be get past the mania about imminent AGI, c

Only thing completely clear about the future of work is that Altman and Amodei will say whatever they think will drive up their IPOs. Altman and Amodei have said for years that AI was so powerful that

Palantir CEO Alex Karp goes after AI slop. The fight over AI “slop” is really a fight over whether software is performing or merely pretending. 'The appearance of software working is not software work

Gary Marcus deleted an original post after Gergely Orosz provided comments questioning the compelling nature of the data presented. The post appears to have been withdrawn due to critical feedback tha

some data i shared yesterday on anthropic revenue possibly slowing down aren’t as a compelling as i thought; i have deleted my posts and await better data before drawing conclusions. h/t @GergelyOrosz

Starbucks learned the hard way: you literally can’t even trust (current) AI to count. For some reason OpenAI doesn’t seem to be talking about how Starbucks spent years creating and testing an AI inven

This is fearmongering, @davidsacks, afaik. I see no candidate regulation being taken seriously that is an actual threat to the trillion dollar AI companies (which can easily afford whatever compliance