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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

Vibe coders are not going to like this. UC San Diego just published the first real field study of experienced developers using AI agents. They watched 13 of them code in the wild and surveyed 99 more.

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

Please don’t trust your chatbot for medical advice. 🙏 Remember how I used to say that large language models are “frequently wrong, never in doubt”, and how I warned three years ago on 60 Minutes that

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

“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

Why do no 'AI safety' people ever say how LLM AIs failed to live up to the hype? Why do the safety people never share the failures of LLMs? This link is from Nov 2023 & shows how tech CEOs used 'safet

💯 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

Gary Marcus argues that Claude's internal representations described as 'emotion vectors' are not genuinely emotional in nature, drawing an analogy to how counterfeit money mimics but lacks the essenti

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

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

LLMs are “ good at math style problems, where you tell them A, B and C are true, and then ask them to figure out D [but] extremely bad at anything involving what I would call mature scholarship .. [so

OpenAI’s market share is slipping. ChatGPT is dying. OpenAI lost the crown as their market share fell below 40 percent for the first time ever. It stands at just 38.7 percent now after four straight m

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

OMG. Let’s get one thing straight. Claude doesn’t get anxious. It mimics people who get anxious. Those two things are NOT the same. My head is shaking so much I need medical attention. anthropic's in-

That didn't take long for a total U turn. First the Nvidia CEO boasted AI would take a vast number of jobs. But now that there's a huge backlash against AI, he cobbles together this cope - to try to p

Anthropic’s CEO keeps talking about AI wiping out jobs because he’s trying to IPO this year. If he positions Claude as armageddon for jobs, his TAM becomes “all white-collar human labor,” not just AI

Gary Marcus argues that Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) and Sam Altman (OpenAI CEO) share more similarities in their approaches to AI development and safety than commonly perceived, despite their public

Is a 92% “honest”* AI really good enough? Or a disaster waiting to happen? —- *”honest” is itself a misleading anthropomorphization of the kind Anthropic loves to promote. “Accurate” would be more acc