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A true exponential! Oy. According to a new paper in The Lancet, the rate of made-up citations in biomedical papers has increased by more than 12x since 2023. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/

Breaking. Sam Altman himself finally confirms what I was the first to point out publicly: his indirect equity stake in OpenAI. … which he failed to acknowledge when asked about his financial interest

🤩🤯🤩 Claude Code (still not AGI but biggest advance since GPT-4) is the most neurosymbolic thing I have ever seen in my life. 53 symbolic tools, 500,000 lines of symbolic code, combined with a state-of

Deep learning hit a wall. Neurosymbolic AI rescued it. 🤩🤯🤩 Claude Code (still not AGI but biggest advance since GPT-4) is the most neurosymbolic thing I have ever seen in my life. 53 symbolic tools, 5

Did Jensen Huang catch conflict of interest disease from Sam? HUANG FOUNDATION SIGNS GPU COMPUTE DEAL WITH COREWEAVE $NVDA proxy says the charitable foundation tied to Jensen and Lori Huang entered an

Even @haider1 sees that Mythos has been overhyped. mythos is pretty on par with gpt-5.5 and while gpt-5.5 is currently SOTA, it's not anything like what anthropic describes mythos as it's pretty obvio

Good science starts with intellectual honesty, and I am not seeing it. I 100% believe the quote below and zero percent believe the seemingly similar– but actually very different—quote that @geoffreyhi

Happy One Year Anniversary, AGI!* What an amazing, hallucination-free year it has been!* Glad we can totally trust you now!* *I was being sarcastic. @codeslubber tyler cowen literally said o3 was AGI.

https://x.com/xiaochuan8688/status/2053007309459341699 'ByteDance has quietly shut down 30% of its AI projects' Even ByteDance faces the same fate as OpenAI's Sora. While the Chinese public enjoys 'AI

I love seeing a new eval with such low scores. When we announced GPT-5.5, almost every benchmark had a score above 50%. It's time to retire evals like GQPA and bring in a new set. The first ProgramBen

'It is categorically *not* a victory for pure LLMs; it’s a victory for borrowing from classical AI and CS to move *beyond* pure LLMs.' ☝️ Compound AI Systems alllll the way downnn 🤩🤯🤩 Claude Code (sti

“Marcus's repeated warnings about the 'wall of generalization' since 1998 have once again been proven true.” Marcus氏が1998年から繰り返す'汎化の壁'の警告。またも証明された。完璧なAIを待つより、今の限界を熟知して使いこなすチームが勝つ。少人数ゆえの意思決定の速さとリスク許容度が

not every day @scaling01 and I agree. but he’s right. and most people won’t notice it happening, per the work of @informor. hot take: unrestricted LLMs are as dangerous as weapons of mass destruction

Gary Marcus references a conversation with someone named Haider, noting that despite Haider's typically optimistic outlook, he has shared documented evidence of expressing concerns about a particular

Sam Altman's personal investments faced increased scrutiny from Republican lawmakers following reporting by The Wall Street Journal in April regarding potential conflicts of interest. The controversy

Opinion: It is rare for the US public to agree on anything these days. Fear of AI is as close to a national consensus as it gets. A clear majority says that AI will do more harm than good. https://ft.

Really amazing dissection. LLMs hitting rarely. Tools list is amazing. 🤩🤯🤩 Claude Code (still not AGI but biggest advance since GPT-4) is the most neurosymbolic thing I have ever seen in my life. 53 s

Sam Altman made statements under oath in May 2023 regarding AI safety and OpenAI's practices, but Gary Marcus critiqued these statements as incomplete or misleading, suggesting Altman failed to fully

So basically Anthropic’s estimated valuation went up half a trillion dollars in a couple weeks (then back down a bit) on hype. Small wonder that companies like OpenAI, Anthropic and Tesla keep hyping

speaks for itself Musk's lawyer: 'Are you completely trustworthy?' Altman: 'I believe so.' Musk's lawyer: 'But, you know, you don't know whether you're completely trustworthy.' Altman: 'I'll just amen

The FT says that Amazon employees are doing random unnecessary task automations to consume tokens and to show their bosses that they're using AI more https://www.ft.com/content/8ee0d3ef-9548-422d-8ff1

'We're going to reach a point of diminishing returns from scaling. That's what actually happened. The industry knows this. But doesn't want to tell you.' @GaryMarcus, AI Expert, Scientist & Author at

When is the last time a general purpose LLM (putting aside hybrid systems like Claude Code with special purpose symbolic harnesses) last completely blew away all competing prior models? GPT-4 relative

wow! “It is the [House] Committee’s understanding that the new board of directors at OpenAI tried to address these problems upon your return by creating an “audit committee to review potential conflic

Ah yes, chatGPT, tell me more about the 'colony mind', 'foraging patrol' and 'nost building' behaviors of the human liver. For anyone predicting near-term physician replacement by LLM-based AI, please

Am old enough to remember when @GeoffreyHinton told me I was stupid for saying that LLMs regurgitate training data. He was wrong. LLM regurgitation is now one of the best-established findings in the f

🚨BREAKING: Ilya just confirmed under oath what he saw: Sam lying. And he confirmed that he thought it was appropriate to fire Altman for it. And that he had been concerned for about Sam for a long tim

Checkmate to everyone on X who doubted my coverage of Sam’s firing. Checkmate. 🚨BREAKING: Ilya just confirmed under oath what he saw: Sam lying. And he confirmed that he thought it was appropriate to

Compute is scarce and has to be bought years in advance, before companies know whether revenue will ever catch up. That is exactly the nature of the largest gamble in history. Heaven help the global e

Dear @geoffreyhinton, I literally never said that AI systems “JUST regurgitate”; that’s plainly false. I don’t believe it, and I didn’t say it. (They do *sometimes* regurgitate, and the evidence for t

Epistemological standards in SF venture capital are so low that you can write this, and everyone will simply nod along. The actual evidence, including a recent NBER paper on thousands of firms, finds:

Ex-OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever claims to have collected proof of Sam Altman’s alleged dishonesty https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-openai-trial-sutskever-sam-altman-musk/?utm_sourc

🤔Going to be in Vancouver tomorrow? 🧐Curious about whether or not scaling AI is a bad bet? 😎Catch TPN founder @zacharykarabell's chat with @GaryMarcus at @WebSummit at 10:20am. 🎟️Get your tickets here

Gonna keep retweeting, because this flawed move never dies: AI hype has become a giant game of bait and switch. the bait: we are going to make an AI that can solve any problem a expert human could sol

If you believe this nonsense, and a lot of people do, I beg you to read my newsletter called “Misplaced Panic Over AI progress” 🙏 we are exactly 4.5 steps away from achieving AGI!! People are not read

Important Nature Neuroscience paper shows how humans differ from LLMs. Many people currently believe that humans are just next-word predictors, like LLMs. But this new paper by Zou, Poeppel and Ding s

🚨 In his testimony just now, at the Musk-OpenAI trial, Satya Nadella came off as shrewd, calm, and (mostly) honest, an impressive leader – but also selectively blind. How? He seemed unable to believe

Michael Burry urged investors to scale back exposure to surging technology stocks, saying the current market environment has reached historically dangerous extremes reminiscent of prior speculative bu

Mythos identified one genuine vulnerability in cURL while also reporting three false positives and one issue classified as a bug during their security analysis. The post references cURL's founder or l

@NameInteger @GaryMarcus @geoffreyhinton Hinton's argument was about encoding: LLMs don't encode text as text, but as weighted matrices. It makes no difference. Memorised data is memorised data no mat

Not even surprised by horrific stories like these anymore. The mission of getting LLMs aligned with human values has largely been a failure. NEW: ChatGPT advised the FSU shooter that a mass shooting w

oh. my. god. 😱 FT Exclusive: NHS England has granted external staff from companies including Palantir “unlimited access” to identifiable patient data while working on a part of its flagship data platf

One estimate of how much annual revenue AI needs to “make sense”: 1.6 trillion. That’s four times what Google made in its best year. (total revenue so far is perhaps on order of 100 billion.) In 2024

Openclaw token consumption dropped 50% within a month according to OpenRouter usage data, as reported by Gary Marcus. The post likely discusses potential causes for this significant decline, such as c

Really doubt what Hinton says here. Self-play for games like Go is not like the open-ended real world. Geoffrey Hinton says AI systems can keep improving when they are not limited by human data Like A

Gary Marcus analyzes and critiques Geoffrey Hinton's arguments regarding weaknesses in deep learning and artificial neural networks. The article likely examines specific technical or conceptual claims