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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

EVERYONE who heard about @SeismicOrg (Seismic Foundation)'s report that AI 'salience' is low NEEDS to hear about this! New research from data science wiz @davidshor shows AI is now ahead of ABORTION a

“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,

I went on @BBCNewsnight this week to discuss the recent developments in AI's capabilities, as well as the potential harms and concentration of power they could entail. We need coordinated internationa

in 1996 mitzenmacher showed that sampling two backends and picking the better one drops max load exponentially vs. random selection one extra comparison. that's the whole trick we built pinecone assis

“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

A 'race' implies that it is something that is worth 'winning', which is not the case for superintelligence. Whoever finished first is just the first to trigger irrecoverable catastrophe. 'There is no

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

' If a superintelligence is built, humanity will lose control over its future.' Before Canadian Senators, ControlAI's US Director Connor Leahy (@NPCollapse) explains why superintelligence could lead t

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Wednesday delivered a televised broadside against progressivism, a political philosophy he described as an existential threat to America and the principles tha

5/5 The takeaway: If your agent relies on an LLM judge for selection accuracy, measuring code quality isn’t enough; you need a measure of the model's inductive bias toward the 'fingerprint' of a gold

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

Grok just hit its highest monthly traffic EVER: over 326 MILLION visits in March alone That’s a massive 61% jump YoY and up 9.3% just since February People love Grok because it's the only AI they can

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

I spent some time trying to distill all the complex factors impacting open models -- economics, capabilities, distribution, policy, etc. -- into a clear list of beliefs. Here they are in full. 1. It’s

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

The front door to the internet hasn't changed -- but the person going through that door has changed from a human browsing 5 blue links, to an agent browsing a similar index in vastly different ways. A

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

// Artifacts as Memory Beyond the Agent Boundary // An agent doesn't always need a bigger memory buffer. Sometimes the environment itself remembers on the agent's behalf. New research formalizes this

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

Exciting news! @theaidocfilm is now available to rent or buy on Apple TV, Prime Video, or wherever you get your movies on demand. If you missed the theatrical release, you can now watch this urgent fi

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

However, most alignment research is not very crisp and requires research taste when evaluating. This is why we chose to point the AAR at this scalable oversight problem! Progress would let AARs work o

🚨 In 2 weeks, a final decision on amendments to the EU AI Act and the GDPR will be made. What is at stake is nothing other than the future of Europe. Many don't know, but the stream of events leading

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

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

As AI agents accelerate coding, what is the future of software engineering? Some trends are clear, such as the Product Management Bottleneck, referring to the idea that we are more constrained by deci

💯. “@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

General Purpose Technologies have downstream effects everywhere, good and bad. Those outcomes can be mitigated, or encouraged, with the right sorts of policy choices If the only options are being for

I am catching glimpses in my feed that there is a backlash against Mythos as 'marketing hype,' and it is a little confusing. I don't think anyone who has used the latest agentic coding tools, would th

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.

Open secret that the big AI labs see themselves as emergent state-like entities in the vein of the distributed polities in “Diamond Age” or “Terra Ignota”, which is pretty funny bc staff at said labs

Pope Francis: Died within hours after meeting JD Vance Viktor Orban: Lost within a few days after meeting JD Vance Middle east peace negotiations: fell apart within 21 hours of Vance’s arrival Welcome

The trend of treating all of AI as One Big Thing that always includes data centers & job changes & education changes & power & accelerating science & misinformation & national security & corporate con

'There is no advantage from being first. If you get first to a superintelligence you don't control, the superintelligence wins. Not the USA. Not China. Not the UK.' @andreamiotti of @ControlAI & TBC o

Violence is not the answer. But maybe boycotts are? 🚨 NOW: The FBI is RAIDING the home of a 20-year-old man who threw a molotov cocktail at the home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Over a DOZEN federal agent