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„Language models model language“ is going to be my quote of the week … maybe I print a T shirt for the next conference. super interesting - and a reminder that language models model language and not i

nope! OpenAI would not have the nerve. Hey @GaryMarcus, quick question. Did you get months of early access to OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol like every AI influencer on X apparently did? Asking because their re

super interesting - and a reminder that language models model language and not ideas per se. also a stark example of how easily LLMs can (as a consequence) be influenced by propaganda. Asking ChatGPT

The anthropomorphization of this one is off the charts. Why does @AnthropicAI do this? It is intellectually lazy. Unscientific. New Anthropic research: A global workspace in language models. Of everyt

AI debt financing is on an insane trajectory, per @SemiAnalysis_: Nvidia GPU Debt Backstop Unleashes the AI Project Trinity: Capital, Offtake and Datacenters Over 7T AI debt by 2029, There can be no N

If you care about AI, and want a nuanced view, you should watch this. I promise it will be worth your time. An excellent video from the @WorldSciFest featuring @GaryMarcus , in which he discusses—amon

new @WSJ editorial board piece on 'The Socialist Temptation of Sam Altman' highlights dangers of politicization of AI, regulatory capture, & bailouts. 'The larger harm will be to the U.S. economy if i

OpenAI just asked the US government to take a 5% stake in the company. The pitch: give every citizen a share in the profits of AI. The problem: AI has no profits. So the real plan is to give every cit

Please please don’t let the Chinese steal from us ,but can we please have a huge copyright exemption? 🙏 Big story here on Anthropic’s moves in Australia, pushing for huge data centre deals and a huge

States are asking for a $1.4 trillion fine of Meta over addicting kids. Basically they are saying Facebook's business model is a result of crime, and all of Mark Zuckerberg's property should be forfei

The AI boom is just not sustainable; Apollo’s Torsten Slok joins the chorus. Torsten Slok argues that the AI boom can only be seen in the hyperscalers and semiconductor companies and that this is caus

The problem with Anthropic's consciousness paper My last post got more attention than I expected, and the question I keep getting is some version of 'okay, so what is actually wrong with the paper?'.

Who is entitled to benefit from major advances in technology—and on what basis? This new paper with @Dr_Atoosa argues that the benefits of technology—including AI—belong to the world in the sense that

⚠️ Wow. The Treasury Department reportedly knows that the massive GenAI build out poses systemic risks to the US financial system – and doesn’t want to acknowledge it publicly. People may talk about t

A CEO who “vowed to fire anyone who doesn’t use AI in 2025” now says AI could not replace her executive assistant. This says a lot about how many big believers in AI have realized that AI is not as go

amazing how much shit @ylecun used to give me for saying basically this pathological that he won’t acknowledge it During a Bloomberg interview, Yann LeCun (@ylecun ) explains why LLMs are limited in t

Gary Marcus argues that Geoff Hinton, rather than Dario Amodei, was the originator of making exaggerated claims about neural networks' impact on employment. This appears to be part of a broader discus

GenAI isn’t good enough to replace millions of employees, so there is basically no way the capex is going to earn out. If AI isn't going to wipe out millions of jobs every year, it has to generate pro

ha ha Geoff Hinton in 2016 completely overhyping where deep learning was at then Geoffrey Hinton explains the coyote test for medical AI: radiology is already over the cliff, it just has not looked do

Hugging Face has just been sued for alleged copyright infringement for hosting & distributing copyrighted images, used for AI training. It's been almost a *year* since I flagged to their CEO that they

If that happens, where does it leave Anthropic and OpenAI? And Oracle, CoreWeave, Nebius, xAI, etc? Fable 5 probably running locally in about two years. That is the projection in this r/LocalLLaMA cha

Gary Marcus reflects on his 2023 prediction that large language models would become commoditized, noting that this outcome is now materializing. The post suggests that LLMs are transitioning from nove

One of the only times I remind people I have a PhD in computational neuroscience is when people without a neuroscience background say their model works 'like the brain.' In these cases, I put on my ne

so much for recursive self improvement, to the degree that it requires scientific taste the other thing im noticing while working on my research projects is how limited these models are GPT-5.5-xhigh

The glorification of insider trading is a disturbing new trend that I’ll never understand Be leopold > wife is chief of staff at Anthropic > get insider info at the dinner table > learn that Anthropic

this is a bit confused. should I unpack it? tl;dr LLMs are already neurosymbolic in its latent space this is the mechanistic explanation for the intuitively obvious 'feel' that the stochastic parrot c

“This study cuts through the optimism surrounding medical AI by showing how easily benchmark success can be mistaken for real readiness. In medical AI, impressive scores are clearly not the same as tr

Trump blockading Cuba into catastrophe should be a much bigger story than it is. Cuba’s electric grid suffered a total collapse Monday as the nation struggles with crumbling infrastructure and a de fa

unconscionable, if these death numbers are even vaguely correct update: https://www.doge-impact.org suggests that the actual number is over 1M; the number below is just USAID related. Money saved: 0 P

Was this deadpan? As if we hadn’t experienced the internet era. Let me re-up: plausible that LLMs will slow down science *today* while *also* destroying the very processes that would eventually lead t

when capex quadruples relative to revenue in five years it just can’t be good. FT: 'It is not yet clear that either [OpenAI or Anthropic] has a sustainable business model. For sure, both have built as

“AI is now costing some companies more than the people it was supposed to replace.” I think AI is in a messy middle phase where usage looks productive, but output remains unclear. Forbes published thi

Gary Marcus argues that Elon Musk's public opposition to democracy reveals important truths about how extreme wealth concentrates power and can lead wealthy individuals to reject democratic principles

LLMs training is opaque to end users and responses can be personalized for industry, locality, individual. The Trump regime openly controls who has access to the latest models. Government control of L

Pop quiz: Can you explain the contrast here, between AI’s coding ability and their less compelling research ability? AI's coding ability has become amazing. But there research ability remains really p

true. a lot of people here just don’t have the historical context. You know what's funny but not funny: If the housing market of 2006 was the AI market of 2026, Charles R Morris would be getting calle

“What has really happened is VC built the wrong AI, you’ll pay a high price for this error with your pension, and nobody will go to jail.” By far the shrewdest and most entertaining analyst of the AI

DOGE deletes itself on July 4th. It will be remembered as a hugely destructive failure. Musk promised 2 trillion in savings. What we got, by DOGE’s own unverified math, was 215 billion. Even that numb

If this doesn’t chill you, I don’t know what will. 😱 “A president with the authority that Trump is now asserting could in theory put the world’s most powerful AI to repressive ends while at the same t

Indeed: if we actually had AGI we would not need forward deployed engineers. Two simultaneous AI narratives right now: 1) You can now do the work of 20 people, learn anything and create anything with

@loujaybee If they are serious and not afraid of a bit of maths, I would recomend starting off by reading : 1) The Algebraic Mind by @GaryMarcus 2) Book of Why by @yudapearl 3) A Guide for Thinking Hu

South Africa became the first country to withdraw a national policy document after officials discovered the text was littered with fake research citations generated by AI https://restofworld.org/2026/

A small tax on every token produced could be transformative, without putting the government into bed with a specific company. And because every token draws on uncompensated contributions from multiple

Altman’s AI safety proposal: bail me out as we badly missed our revenue runway, or i will not be a multi-billionaire Altman’s AI safety proposal: let us win, or everybody loses https://ft.trib.al/UrDI

as expected by whom? 🤔 META: ZUCKERBERG SAYS AI PROGRESS HAS BEEN SLOWER THAN EXPECTED • ZUCKERBERG SAID AI AGENT DEVELOPMENT HAS NOT ACCELERATED AS EXPECTED OVER THE PAST FOUR MONTHS • SAID META'S 20

congrats @yudapearl! Judea Pearl Named AI Pioneer by Boston Global Forum in Honor of America’s 250th Anniversary https://samueli.ucla.edu/judea-pearl-named-ai-pioneer-by-boston-global-forum-in-honor-o