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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

Here is a very common problem when building complex agents. Long-horizon agents (in particular) fail in two ways: the decision-maker can't decompose well, or the skill library goes stale. This new res

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

Trump has spent the better years of his second term treating allied governments like freeloading tenants who should be grateful he hasn’t changed the locks. The result, predictably, is that they’ve st

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-

Groups and movements that can build & get implemented clear policies will have an outsized impact on the chances that AI is used in the way that they want. This is especially true in the near term It

Here are 5 epic prompts to use with ChatGPT's new image generator. It's the most powerful image generator on the market, so let's use it to our advantage. Save this one 📌 WORK SETUP AUDIT: upload a ph

If you believe that AI is going to have a big impact on work and life, the only real tool for mitigating bad impacts and channeling usage for good will be government policy And that policy will be com

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

AI is advancing faster than our ability to manage it. We still have the opportunity to build the societal and technical guardrails we need to keep people, institutions, and democracies safe — we shoul

New episode of The Information Bottleneck is out, this time with @liuzhuang1234 (Princeton). We talked about ConvNeXt and whether architecture still matters; dataset bias and what 'good data' actually

A lot of institutions and companies won’t die because of AI. They’ll die because of their own internal inability to learn. Someone recently told me that at a big company, legal had to review and appro

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

I’m in Madrid this week for the first in-person meeting of the United Nations Independent International Scientific Panel on AI. I'm thrilled to be part of this distinguished group of 40 international

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

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

🦤 LeWorldModel: Learning Physics from Pixels — Stable World Models with Just Two Losses World models: 1️⃣ DINO-WM: pretrained ViT encoder (from ImageNet) → features → predictor. But encoder is frozen,

LiteParse: our open-source, layout-aware PDF parser for AI agents. The secret? Grid projection. Instead of heavy ML layout models or flat text extraction, it projects text onto a monospace grid so ali

Terrible This is insane… The Virginia redistricting amendment on the ballot today is framed as a vote to 'restore fairness in the upcoming elections.' In reality, it turns a state that Kamala barely w

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

I love the way this is framed. New congressional districts that would disenfranchise almost half of Virginia GOP voters are designed 'to restore fairness in the upcoming elections.' Modern American po

Last Wednesday, our founder and scientific advisor, @Yoshua_Bengio, was officially appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). This prestigious distinction recognizes his contributi

Mark Zuckerberg and Meta Platforms $META just sent a memo to employees saying Meta Platforms is installing a new tracking software on the computers of all employees in the United States 🇺🇸 so it can t

MASSIVE: 🇺🇸 The BBC just validated everything we've been saying. A clear pattern of trades right before major Trump announcements. Iran war. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. We tracked a whale for wee

Gary Marcus shared an observation or commentary about poetry encountered on a platform or service referenced as 'B.sky' (likely Bluesky, the decentralized social network). The post appears to document

// Survey on Multi-Agent Systems // The paper traces the landscape from classical paradigms (consensus, distributed control, swarm intelligence, cooperative learning) to foundation-model-enabled MAS (

“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

VA law REQUIRES that ballot language be 'a neutral explanation.' This language is CLEARLY illegal. A court ruled as much...and Democrats ignored the court and waited for a different court to punt on t

💯 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

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

Je suis passé à Découverte de @CBCRadioCanada pour discuter des risques de l’IA, des raisons scientifiques qui expliquent certains des comportements inquiétants des modèles de pointe, et des solutions

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