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“There is no option to opt out” - Meta’s CTO “There was no option to opt out” - epigraph for life as we knew it? Scoop! Meta staff are outraged over a new program that trains AI off their keystrokes a

Why do no 'AI safety' people ever say how LLM AIs failed to live up to the hype? Why do the safety people never share the failures of LLMs? This link is from Nov 2023 & shows how tech CEOs used 'safet

💯 agree The AI bubble will burst says economist Ann Pettifor She is Chair of the Political Economy Research Centre's Advisory Board at Goldsmiths, a fellow of the New Economics Foundation, a director

“AI is at best a functional mimic, not a conscious experiencing subject. …. The real moral issue lies not in making AI conscious …. but in avoiding transforming humans into zombies” @GaryMarcus @OEIAC

Amazon’s AI coding boom is creating a mess. Vibe coding their way to chaos. @GaryMarcus 🦔The internal document was reported by Business Insider. Here’s the link: https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-spr

Gary Marcus argues that Claude's internal representations described as 'emotion vectors' are not genuinely emotional in nature, drawing an analogy to how counterfeit money mimics but lacks the essenti

Importantly, the tweet by @itsolelehmann may be misleading. I stand by what I said but have some reason to think that @AmandaAskell’s views may have been misrepresented. Seeking clarification and will

literally my basic model since 1998. crazy that some people still haven’t figured this out. My basic model of capabilities: LLMs are good at problems similar to those that appear in their training dat

LLMs are “ good at math style problems, where you tell them A, B and C are true, and then ask them to figure out D [but] extremely bad at anything involving what I would call mature scholarship .. [so

OpenAI’s market share is slipping. ChatGPT is dying. OpenAI lost the crown as their market share fell below 40 percent for the first time ever. It stands at just 38.7 percent now after four straight m

Seriously. If you don’t understand the below, you really shouldn’t speculate about AI. It’s absolutely fundamental. literally my basic model since 1998. crazy that some people still haven’t figured th

Gary Marcus critiques the assumption that massive financial investment in AI scaling alone can solve fundamental challenges related to common sense reasoning in artificial intelligence systems. The po

OMG. Let’s get one thing straight. Claude doesn’t get anxious. It mimics people who get anxious. Those two things are NOT the same. My head is shaking so much I need medical attention. anthropic's in-

That didn't take long for a total U turn. First the Nvidia CEO boasted AI would take a vast number of jobs. But now that there's a huge backlash against AI, he cobbles together this cope - to try to p

Anthropic’s CEO keeps talking about AI wiping out jobs because he’s trying to IPO this year. If he positions Claude as armageddon for jobs, his TAM becomes “all white-collar human labor,” not just AI

Gary Marcus argues that Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) and Sam Altman (OpenAI CEO) share more similarities in their approaches to AI development and safety than commonly perceived, despite their public

Is a 92% “honest”* AI really good enough? Or a disaster waiting to happen? —- *”honest” is itself a misleading anthropomorphization of the kind Anthropic loves to promote. “Accurate” would be more acc

“my honest read is that a significant portion of this spending is driven by competitive fear rather than demonstrated returns. Nobody wants to be the company that didn't invest in AI when everyone els

Everyone’s quitting but everything’s going great. AGI will be here next week. Scout’s honor! This story has now been updated with more details. Three leaders departed from OpenAI today: - Kevin Weil,

Oh look! Anthropic's entire 'we are delaying Mythos' narrative was marketing hogwash. Kudos to FT for confirming what was obvious. Anthropic simply doesn't have the compute. FT: 'Multiple people with

“The sharpest drop came from people who used the model for direct answers, not from those who used it more like a hint system, which suggests the real issue is not AI exposure itself but replacing eff

Can people please stop taking shots at @sama, and boycott his company instead? Violence is not the answer. This is really bad. The scary part in the US is that it doesn’t matter whether you are the CE

@GaryMarcus Essentially your prediction that LLMs to scale wouldn’t solve key fundamental problems, reasoning, factual reliability, compositionality, grounded understanding etc are now elephantine chi

Gary Marcus advocates for applying Satyagraha—a principle of nonviolent resistance emphasizing moral conviction—as a response to contemporary challenges, likely in the context of AI development and go

Generative AI in nutshell: 'If the technology is as formidable as the [tech CEO's] claim, then they could be leading us toward existential disaster; if the technology proves less transformative, and t

I find it fascinating that OpenAI's Global Affairs team will denounce AI doomers for being too negative and then, simultaneously, advocate for an Illinois bill that would shield them from liability if

Prediction from a year ago about AI backlash that looks to be on track: Public backlash against AI will so be strong by 2028 that anti-AI sentiment will probably be a major factor in the 2028 US Presi

So true. “Being right too soon is socially unacceptable” I remember reading this from Heinlein as a young man and it took experience for me to fully understand it. People and institutions will persist

Stanford researchers tested the claims made by LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters that their AI-powered legal research tools are 'hallucination-free,' and found those claims to be inaccurate. The study re

What happens when you systematically oversell the value of your product for years, while pretty much screwing society along the way? Eventually your customers figure it out. Surprisingly, people see A

Anthropic believes that good transparency legislation needs to ensure public safety and accountability for the companies developing this powerful technology, not provide a get-out-of-jail-free card ag

China leaps ahead of the US in the race to control dangerously anthropomorphic AI. 🚨 BREAKING: China's new law on AI anthropomorphism has been officially enacted, and it is the world's STRICTEST law o

Elon Musk’s AI software, Grok, continues to generate sexualized images of people without their consent, despite his company’s pledge months ago to halt abusive deepfakes after a public backlash and go

Heartbreaking news, like losing a close friend. I learned so much at Hampshire College. For a tiny college it has had a disproportionate—and exceptionally positive—effect on the world. The world is a

Gary Marcus participated in a conversation with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and Lynn Pasquerella discussing the value of a Hampshire College education in the context of a rapidly changing world. T

🦔OpenAI is backing an Illinois state bill that would shield AI labs from liability in cases where their models cause mass casualties or large-scale financial disasters, defined as death or serious inj

Carissa Véliz delivered a TED Talk in 2026 arguing that predictions function as instruments of power, shaping behavior and outcomes through the act of belief itself. Her thesis suggests that predictiv

Some of my thoughts on why I loved Hampshire and why I think it should be a model for education in the AI era. Ken Burns, Lynn Pasquerella, and I on education, our rapidly changing world, and the valu

Gary Marcus, a prominent AI researcher and critic known for his skepticism of current deep learning approaches, was invited to speak at BugBash, an event hosted by Antithesis. The post, shared by Anti

Why why why is it so hard to understand that stupid systems can still be dangerous? @Graffitinights1 For the zillionth time, dumb systems that are empowered can dangerous. like this monstrosity, as an

ACTUAL BREAKING NEWS that sounds like an @TheOnion Headline: Florida man/Adjudicated rapist/convicted felon/one-time close personal friend with Jeffrey Epstein who has six corporate bankruptcies in hi

A study has found that AI chatbots incorrectly diagnose patients in more than 80% of early medical cases, raising significant concerns about the reliability of AI tools in clinical settings. The resea

Alienated Europe Alienated the religious right Alienated Rogan, Carlson and many more Declared a war that even he can’t justify Messed up the Middle East Drove up the price of oil Drove up inflation U

💯. “@garymarcus has won, others too” And the smart people already know it. AGI requires both symbols and neural networks. Period. The current regime in AI cannot possibly scale Mount AGI. Gary Marcus

Memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser says Anthropic is 'grossing up rev share with Amazon and Google' and overstating its 'run rate by roughly $8B' (@haydenfield / The Verge) https://www.

Gary Marcus, an AI skeptic and cognitive scientist, posted on X highlighting diverging stock performance in the AI infrastructure sector, noting that while Nvidia has remained relatively stable, CoreW