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Thoughtful book on LLMs and linguistics — by someone who actually knows linguistics. Interested in the LLM vs. linguistic theory debate? My just out book will tell you (almost) all about it. https://m
When you project exponential growth – and miss. I stand by my call that OpenAI is likely to someday be seen as the WeWork of AI. Exclusive: OpenAI recently missed its own targets for new users and rev
Wow. Musk’s lawyers will capitalize on this. 🚨 Microsoft's lawyer just told the jury Microsoft 'knew nothing'. OpenAI's non-profit board approved all funding, every step of the way and Microsoft did i
⚠️ AI agents are wildly premature technology that is being rolled out way too fast. The deepest lesson about the vibe coded AI agent disaster story that is running around is NOT about losing your data
“Always keep a separate backup.” For sure, every experienced programmer should know this. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘷𝘪𝘣𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵. And we now have a legion of synthetic coding
Gary Marcus reported on X that polling software is experiencing a malfunction where votes are not displaying, a problem he notes has been observed by multiple users. He confirmed the issue from his ow
Gary Marcus is a prominent AI researcher, cognitive scientist, and entrepreneur who frequently discusses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cognitive science on X (formerly Twitter). His p
@GaryMarcus I mean AI influencers here and everywhere are screaming you shouldn't get hired if you don't use agentic AI because you're deliberatly slowing everyone down and the moment something goes w
@GaryMarcus Never ever use generative AI for anything critical. The technology is probablistic all the way down and therefore inherently unreliable. Why is this so hard to understand? It’s wild how ma
@GaryMarcus These coding tools are intellectual chain saws. Powerful in the hands of a caring professional, extremely dangerous to the operator when used improperly. Implying AGI-adjacency has created
Generative AI as the Hindenberg 🦔 Michael Wooldridge, professor of AI at Oxford, is warning that the race to market AI has raised the risk of a 'Hindenburg moment' that could shatter global confidence
I don’t always agree with @ElonMusk. I often disagree. Sometimes loudly. But he’s basically right here, as far I can see. Scam Altman and Greg Stockman stole a charity. Full stop. Greg got tens of bil
If a major car company had AI fan boys and released a car with loose lug nuts and the wheels came off, after hyping it as the greatest thing ever, and a bunch of people died, those fan boys would say
Gary Marcus discusses technical and security issues affecting the X platform, including malfunctioning polls, compromised accounts, and increased phishing scams in direct messages. The post appears to
People keep blaming the users for the growing number of vibe-coded reasoners. Doing so is *half* right. Users *are*screwing up - by letting vibe coded stuff access their files, without proper backups,
@robertskmiles @GaryMarcus “fails less often than a human does” is a terrible metric. We build deterministic software and test it to destruction to ensure it’s 99.99999 reliable . That’s been the basi
Stop blaming the users. It’s not that simple: People keep blaming the users for the growing number of vibe-coded reasoners. Doing so is *half* right. Users *are*screwing up - by letting vibe coded stu
Gary Marcus critiques common misconceptions about how large language models (LLMs) function, suggesting that most users have an incorrect mental model of what LLMs actually do when generating response
This statement critiques the asymmetrical attribution of outcomes in AI development, where users are blamed for failures while AI models receive credit for successes. Gary Marcus uses the metaphor of
the difference is that we don’t *hype* giving 12 year-olds bulldozers. *of course* it’s a kind of user error when a model destroys all of user’s data and they didn’t have a backup. that’s the point. v
The divorce between Microsoft and OpenAI that I projected three years ago is now underway. Time for everyone to start seeing other people. OpenAI is moving away from its exclusive Microsoft arrangemen
Gary Marcus critiques the marketing of large language model autocomplete systems as 'artificial intelligence,' arguing this terminology misrepresents their actual capabilities. He extends this critici
Gary Marcus made a critical commentary on Sam Altman's priorities, using a pun on 'AGI' (Artificial General Intelligence) to suggest that Altman's actual focus is on 'Adjusted Gross Income' rather tha
The question of whether Altman and Brockman did what they promised ≠ the question of whether Elon is a good person. Musk argued that Altman and Brockman broke promises and abused the notion of a nonpr
there’s seem to be a ton of confusion about this post. for clarity: The question of whether Altman and Brockman did what they promised ≠ the question of whether Elon is a good person. Musk argued that
This is totally wrong. Blaming the user is missing the point that (a) coding agents have been overhyped and (b) can’t reliably obey the rules given to them in system prompts and other guardrails. Sorr
yep, that’s what I do. I am increasingly concerned that people in China are soaking up my wisdom, while a lot of people in the US try to dismiss me. i don’t think that is going to end well. 10. @GaryM
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“AI: it feels most impressive when you don’t know much about the subject, don’t care or don’t have a clear idea of what the you want… Once you know what something should feel or look like, it becomes
All your jobs are belong to us Then surely Anthropic is making a big mistake by hiring all those people huh? Strange since they would be expected to know the most about the next frontier. With OpenAI
Anthropic’s CEO says software engineering is dying. Anthropic’s job listing has 70 open positions in software engineering. 🙄 @GaryMarcus https://www.anthropic.com/careers/jobs 70 opened position in SE
Gary Marcus, a prominent AI researcher and critic, posted a message on X (formerly Twitter) addressing software engineers and coders, likely discussing technical aspects of AI development, programming
disconcerting. A European Commission proposal could create one of Europe’s largest privacy and national-security risks in decades. https://techletters.substack.com/p/the-european-commission-is-turning
Doomers have made the AI industry much of what it is today, by hyping the narrative. Chamath captured the current state of AI perfectly in his 2025 annual letter 'In testing the most effective messagi
Gary Marcus reported receiving a high volume of phishing emails through X (formerly Twitter) direct messages, suggesting either widespread account compromises or a potential security vulnerability all
In other words, you need the world models that LeCun, Schmidhuber, Fei Fei Li, and I have been advocating for all along. Sam Altman says today's models are still dumb because they barely understand yo
“Loves tearing down overhyped AI claims, but his critiques always hit the nail on the head”. They get it, in China. 全球AI圈最有影响力的15个人，你一个都不认识就别说自己懂AI了 说真的，AI这个行业吧，信息差就是钱差。 你每天刷那些二手资讯、等媒体翻译，黄花菜都凉了。真正的消息，
Gary Marcus argues that software engineers will remain in high demand for years into the future, countering claims that artificial intelligence or other technological developments will eliminate the n
Software engineering legend @Grady_Booch re Dario: I think that @DarioAmodei does not understand software engineering and that he is working feverishly to pump up the valuation of his company in antic
The only people who believe any of this are non-coders. I tried to build a game (an area I’m an n00b in.) The results are amusingly disastrous - I never before coded a decent game. But I’ll crack out
Gary Marcus, a prominent AI researcher and critic, expressed frustration that concerns he has been publicly raising about AI for approximately a decade are now receiving mainstream attention as breaki
Gary Marcus argues that programmers are returning to handcoding despite AI tools, suggesting that AI-assisted coding has encountered practical limitations or drawbacks that make manual coding preferab
Gary Marcus observes that experienced programmers are returning to hand-writing code as a practice, suggesting this approach may offer cognitive or developmental benefits despite modern IDE tools. Thi
Gary Marcus highlights a success or advancement in neurosymbolic AI, an approach that combines neural networks with symbolic reasoning systems. Neurosymbolic AI aims to leverage the pattern-recognitio
Every time I tell AI utopianists that biology is too complex for AI to 'solve', they cite the success of AlphaFold. No, AlphaFold did not 'solve' protein folding. It gets broad structures correct ~70-
A few weeks ago, I was forwarded an email from a journalist named “Michael Chen,” asking for comment on an AI bill in Tennessee. All signs suggest Michael Chen is not a real person, and the publicatio
And eventually schools will (if they have any sense) probably withdraw or limit LLMs. 🦔Schools across the US are reversing years of technology-first classroom policies after studies show laptop and sc
Are LLMs really more important than fire or electricity? “Honestly, a ton of what we’ve developed in my lifetime amounts to scaling up the delivery of information and entertainment and the frictionles
Dubious predictions that have yet to be fulfilled have given dubious people like Sam Altman and Elon Musk extraordinary power over society. @carissaveliz's lecture @@TEDTalks (which I was lucky enough
Last night was the biggest disaster in the history of Tesla. Let me walk you through what actually happened on that earnings call, because the headlines are doing you a disservice: Elon Musk got on th
Anthropic’s own internal security blows. Anthropic said Mythos was too dangerous to release. Then four random guys in a Discord gained access on day one by guessing the URL... This is pretty insane: →
Gary Marcus critiques ChatGPT's lack of embodied understanding and spatial reasoning, arguing that the language model struggles with physical concepts that humans intuitively grasp through bodily expe
Could a sequence of poetic gibberish manipulate the world’s most advanced AI? Recent tests on GPT-5 by @ChristophHeilig show it consistently rates nonsensical 'word salad' as higher quality than clear
Fascinating how AI is getting better at diagrams like these (at least for ones that you could easily find on web search) but still making some pretty wacky errors — like confusing where the rear brake
This post likely references a humorous or unexpected use case involving a rear brake lever, possibly demonstrating an unintended design flaw, unconventional application, or double meaning related to b
God these people are annoying. Obnoxious comment and the guy can’t be bothered to notice the front tire that is labeled as a fork 🙄 Or to notice the front brake that’s lost its cable and is hovering u
Let me say this clearly: LLMs cannot feel emotions. Emotions are evolutionary mechanisms. They push us to avoid danger or approach what is beneficial. We experience emotions because we are alive, and
There seems to be some excitement around “ChatGPT’s powerful new image engine”, but as ever, its functional understanding of the world seems limited. I first learned about the new system when some som
Gary Marcus expresses skepticism or concern about an artificial intelligence claim or incident that he finds implausible, suggesting that even young children would recognize the flaw in the reasoning
This has in fact (at various levels) happened more than 1000 times. Check out @DamienCharlotin’s tracker and my substack essays about it. And it begins Sullivan & Cromwell just admitted to a federal j