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My view on Mythos was and is somewhere in between. It’s real, it’s a wakeup call, and it’s not quite what some of the media coverage suggested. • Mythos is not going to allow an 8 year old to accident

Next week at The Trial could be wild. Here’s why: Sam Altman will be on the stand. He is one of the world’s most convincing (though not always truthful) talkers (as I saw up close when we testified si

Remember that MIT study that showed that the ROI for generative AI wasn’t really there for most businesses? Or any of the six or seven studies from other teams that followed, showing basically the sam

Sadly I am forced to agree. @karaswisher shilled for her friend Sam (who interviewed her for her book tour!), and ran me down for seeking (and stating) the truth. And never apologized, even after my t

This appears to be a post by cognitive scientist and AI researcher Gary Marcus on X (formerly Twitter) expressing skepticism or disagreement about a claim or development, likely related to AI, machine

SCOOP: VP JD Vance held a secret call with CEOs of giant AI companies including Elon Musk, Dario Amodei and Sam Altman. Vance expressed concern with the potential of AI systems and impact they could h

Gary Marcus discusses the prospect of writing an updated edition of a work that has entered the public domain, suggesting he may revise and republish it. The post reflects on opportunities created by

Gary Marcus shared appreciation for a humorous or witty piece of content from the Financial Times (FT), praising its deadpan British humor style. The post suggests the FT occasionally publishes unexpe

Take Mythos seriously, but don’t panic. Here are the facts: • Mythos is a real threat. And it can really help with finding bugs (as @mozilla’s new report documents well). • It’s not unique; similar vu

The future of Math is mathematicians and AI agents working together. Very pleased to introduce @GoogleDeepMind's AI co-mathematician: a multi-agent system designed to actively collaborate with human e

🚨The slow decline of OpenAI has begun. 🚨 These two hesitations from SoftBank and Broadcom, back to back in my feed from @HedgieMarkets and @anissagardizy8, are major signs. The money question of 2026:

Gary Marcus argues that despite 3.5 years of rapid AI development and deployment, there is minimal empirical evidence that AI has significantly impacted overall economic productivity metrics. The post

Gary Marcus corrected a previous statement about power consumption, clarifying that the figure was 300 megawatts rather than 30 megawatts. This appears to be a technical correction posted on X regardi

contest time: First person to update this chart with no mistakes using an AI system and a general prompt (rather than one than that handholds the system every step of the win) wins a signed book! Plea

Elon Musk’s DOGE “blatantly used” race, gender and other protected characteristics to execute the largest mass termination of federal grants in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities

Research indicates that people frequently follow advice provided by chatbots, yet this compliance with AI recommendations does not correlate with improved outcomes or subjective well-being. This sugge

First person to update this chart with no mistakes using an AI system and a general prompt (rather than one than that handholds the system every step of the win) wins a signed book! Please suppy your

Former OpenAI employee Rosie Campbell is the FIRST PERSON in the trial to point out that OpenAI's mission does NOT REQUIRE building AGI Undermines the entire justification for creating the for-profit

Gary Marcus is an AI researcher and public intellectual who frequently shares commentary and insights about artificial intelligence developments on social media. His posts on X (formerly Twitter) cove

Helen Toner's deposition in Musk v Altman includes some striking quotes about Mira Murati's involvement with Altman's ouster. She said Mira was 'totally uninterested in telling her team that her conve

Gary Marcus posted on X (formerly Twitter) requesting that Bloomberg update outdated information, likely regarding AI safety, regulation, or related technological topics that Marcus frequently discuss

Hot take on Elon’s surprise decision to rent 30 megawatts of compute to Anthropic: 1. It’s a tacit concession that xAI is not all that close to AGI (despite what he suggested last year). 2. It’s more

If point #4 is true, things are gonna get really wild. Hot take on Elon’s surprise decision to rent 30 megawatts of compute to Anthropic: 1. It’s a tacit concession that xAI is not all that close to A

just imagine what might happen if everybody was stockpiling GPUs at high prices for a demand that didn’t quite materialize…. So, look surprised: xAI, which is now part of SpaceX, stockpiled too many N

This post appears to be a satirical commentary on social media sensationalism, using the absurd claim that Earth's revolution around the sun is 'breaking news' to critique how trivial or well-establis

Many, many OpenAI employees quit over safety concerns, including @DKokotajlo, William Saunders, @sjgadler, etc as well @Janleike. The founders of Anthropic such as @DarioAmodei and @jackclarkSF may ha

Gary Marcus criticizes the credibility and practices of X (formerly Twitter) influencer accounts, likely highlighting misleading claims, engagement manipulation, or questionable expertise common among

Nvidia's stock rose 2.6% following news that xAI is selling 220,000 used GPUs on the secondhand market, potentially indicating a shift in AI hardware demand or xAI's operational priorities. The report

One of the things that made the Mythos release hard to interpret is that Anthropic held back details on most vulns they found, to give defenders time to patch. 1 month later, info from orgs with acces

Terence Tao recognized that plausibility and veracity are not the same, and that current tools are better at the former than the latter. [edit: the video is from 2024, and affirms what i said in 2019

The illustration on this story is quite funny, but the study itself has quite big implications I think. The point is that there might be better ways to design AI systems so that they don’t simply do e

Theories are proven by accurate predictions. I first read @GaryMarcus in the late ’90s, and his ideas helped shape my deterministic ML frameworks, GAIuS & KATO. He’s been proven right repeatedly, yet

There have been several high profile incidents of OpenAI and a16z's super PAC Leading the Future (and its affiliate Build American AI) engaging in pretty egregious astroturfing. But it's also notable

“they hadn’t figured out how OpenAI would pay for it” may turn out to be the epitaph for an entire era. 🪦 scoop from @anissagardizy8 @theinformation, and credit her with the great line “OpenAI has mad

Gary Marcus reflects on predictions he made two years prior and reaffirms his confidence in their accuracy. The post suggests Marcus is reviewing his track record on forecasts, likely related to artif

Jan Leike, OpenAI's safety and alignment lead, resigned in May 2024, citing concerns about the company's commitment to safety practices and the deprioritization of safety work relative to product deve

Wow this paper has been “just published” many times for nearly a year. I have called out at least two other “influencers” for the same thing on the same paper, including another one earlier this week.

yep, really embarassing One of the richest VCs, Marc Andreessen, has shown again that he thinks generative AI works perfectly well if you use the right prompts, thus ignoring the statistical nature of

100% stood the test of time: “What Ilya saw” was Sam’s bad behavior, not AGI. When Altman got fired “What did Ilya see?” became a wildly popular conspiracy meme. I think we can safely say now that wha

🚨Alphabet GOOGL trades at 133x free cash flow. For context: its pre-COVID multiple was ~20x. And free cash flow hasn't grown since 2021. GQG Partners — one of the world's top institutional investors —

Am I right that hyperscaling compute is the biggest bet in history? Any counter examples? It’s way more expensive than the Manhattan Project, the Apollo project, and railways across the US. If it does

Amazing the shit X gave me in November 2023 for saying Sam wasn’t always candid. He wasn’t. Period. Murati testified that, by fall 2023, Sam Altman was “not always” candid with her, and undermined her

And how many times have I told you that Sam is no longer the right CEO for OpenAI? Murati: My issues with Sam were very much around management and providing direction to the organization and decision

C’mon BBC. Zilis was sharp as a tack on the stand, on her role in the OpenAI *nonprofit* board, and how she managed conflicts as they began to develop, and this (which is not really even news since it

Gary Marcus clarifies that in the legal proceeding he's discussing, the jury serves an advisory role while the judge retains decision-making authority on the case outcome. Marcus expresses confidence

@Dr_Gingerballs At least actual ponzi schemes don't light their cash on fire... they just cant meet redemptions at the level of their inflated fake earnings. After all of the hyperscalers burn every l