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LLMs can’t be trusted to follow rules. Which means they can’t be trusted, period. If we are going to solve alignment we must move on. Large language models can be persuaded to break their own rules. N
New piece in @TheAtlantic! We always hear that AI will cure cancer, and I would immediately benefit if it did. But I argue that racing ahead on generalist AI models creates unclear benefits for cancer
Gary Marcus compares two countries' economic risk-taking, suggesting one is engaging in dangerous speculation while the other is not. The post likely discusses contrasting approaches to emerging techn
Our new incident response report exposes a coordinated network of 340 Facebook pages, largely operated from Vietnam, flooding feeds across Canada, the US, the UK, and Europe with AI-fabricated news, a
Professor @GaryMarcus is an American psychologist, cognitive scientist, and author, known for his research on the intersection of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. What
Sober minded folks need to understand the cash out happening in this bubble peak. Watch the @WSJ discussion 👇 How big tech hides the true cost of AI @wsj https://youtu.be/YrJzjC4kKCY?si=o1CiKxLaSVWOhK
Gary Marcus posted a critical commentary on X regarding SPCX stock, sarcastically offering 'thoughts and prayers' to investors who purchased the stock at 225 in the previous week, implying the investm
This post by cognitive scientist Gary Marcus likely critiques the widespread credibility given to a particular public figure's predictions, questioning the basis for their influence or accuracy track
This video from the Wall Street Journal examines how major technology companies obscure the substantial economic, environmental, and societal costs associated with developing and operating artificial
'If curing cancer were the only result of building ever more powerful AI systems, I would cheer for their arrival. But the problem is that their impacts are much broader, and we are moving too quickly
Is it a sign of disillusionment when technooptimist @BrianRoemmele sounds *exactly* like me:? Here he writes that we risk an AI winter from “Over-promising relative to capabilities: Ambitious public c
this claim around creativity is too strong, IMHO. truly novel ideas from LLMs are surely rare but i don’t think that any math proves they are impossible. note that the objective function and the outpu
This now widely circulated claim is based on a line I wrote last week (https://economist.com/briefing/2026/06/14/donald-trumps-blocking-of-anthropic-is-capricious-and-chaotic). I accurately quoted Mar
'Verifiable results (True/False) combined with a solution space exploration technique' - very well put. Crux of neuro-symbolic #ai, what @GaryMarcus has been shouting about it for decades. Crux of the
about fucking time. they have always shown a disregard for humanity. 42 state attorneys general are investigating OpenAI over alleged harmful practices. Read again: 42 state attorneys general are inve
Gary Marcus expresses frustration that American media outlets avoid covering his realistic critiques of AI, attributing this to influence or deference from the tech industry. He notes that internation
Big Tech will absolutely destroy our drinkable water supply to advance their AI products and increase their profits. Just like the health insurance industry lets people die to increase their profits.
crazy the ways these guys have become socialists, wanting the state to own everything. BREAKING: JD Vance just admitted the White House plan is to take ownership of every major AI company in America.
Doctors 25% more likely to miss a diagnosis on a patient within 3 months after Ai is implemented. The results indicate Ai has an immediate negative effect on professionals skillsets vs prolonged relia
exactly. there aren’t enough resources in the world to build 5 towers of babel. which means the loan defaults alone will be epic. @GaryMarcus Instead of building the Tower of Babel we appear to have f
Flesh-eating maggots, scientifically known as larvae of blow flies and flesh flies, are used in medical settings for debridement therapy to treat infected or necrotic wounds by consuming dead tissue w
@GaryMarcus the whole AI bubble depends on investors not understanding that the progress on coding harnesses DOES NOT GENERALIZE to other less-quantifiable tasks. AI companies are deliberately obscuri
Has there ever been a more a soul-crushing technology than Generative AI? Most software engineers are facing an identity crisis bordering on depression. As CTOs aggressively evangelize tokenmaxxing, a
Gary Marcus argues that language models are not genuinely intelligent despite their sophisticated outputs, and that they operate fundamentally differently from human cognition. This critique likely ch
If Generative AI were a vehicle, it would be a runaway train. Terrifying sentence from Goldman Sachs: “Hyperscalers will need financing from across markets, structures, and currencies as they potentia
It's crazy how badly the tech industry wants this guy @AlexBores defeated, all because he passed a relatively tame AI transparency law AI billionaires have spent $8,027,347 trying to beat one New York
money talks: after putting 50B into OpenAI • Amazon ratted on Anthropic • dropped their skeptical film about Sam Altman Luca Guadagnino's nearly finished Sam Altman movie, “Artificial,” has been dropp
Most software engineers are facing an identity crisis bordering on depression. As CTOs aggressively evangelize tokenmaxxing, a class divide ensues. The lazy. The lazy push code. They don't write it. T
old Republicans: the government should be smaller new Republicans: the state should own a stake in everything BREAKING: JD Vance just admitted the White House plan is to take ownership of every major
pro tip: when someone starts a long song and dance with “the fact that X” and that claim X is not a fact but an as yet a controversial and unproven speculation, hold on to your wallet. The fact that o
same. i want to know why Amazon is trying to bury it. If you have a script/screener of this movie, I would love to see it https://variety.com/2026/film/global/luca-guadagnino-sam-altman-movie-artifici
Terrifying sentence from Goldman Sachs: “Hyperscalers will need financing from across markets, structures, and currencies as they potentially bump up against saturation considerations in liquid credit
The NSF helped build the internet, funded the observatory that detected gravitational waves, laid foundations for AI, advanced MRI technology, and trained generations of scientists. It is on track for
There is no way the hyperscalers are going to make back their 5.3 trillion — unless they take it out of the taxpayers, via massive government subsidies. Which is *exactly* what they are going to try t
This post likely discusses economic policy errors and systemic vulnerabilities that could transform a stock market correction into a severe, prolonged economic depression similar to the Great Depressi
this is so not true. anthropic’s own Claude Code uses harnesses, symbolic tools, regular expressions and 500,000 lines of symbolic code. it’s not scale alone and it *is* specialized. Anthropic's Jack
dot-com bubble vs. a possible AI bubble. From the famous 'Dean of Valuation', Professor Aswath Damodaran, of NYU Stern School of Business, “And that’s the real big difference between the dot-com boom
Eight reasons to slow down hyperscaling: • What GenAI has already done to society • What AI slop is doing to the internet • What data center overbuild is likely to do the economy • What data center ov
'If Bores wins the primary, it has the potential to clarify and perhaps even transform the federal debate about regulating artificial intelligence. On the other hand, if he loses, Bores and others fea
Only a narrative violation if you believed people with a lot of money at stake. • Most of the people that said lots of jobs would soon disappear were running LLM companies trying to overhype their war
President Trump on the Axios show this morning 'You know we have a situation with Anthropic. And we didn't like what they were doing. And so far I think they behaved very responsibly to our request.'
“1.75 trillion dollar” company can’t do diddly-squat over impersonating accounts running (i have seen three in three days) like these stock scams and yet is supposedly gonna make orbiting data centers
Gary Marcus expresses appreciation for being mentioned alongside Demis Hassabis, the co-founder of DeepMind, in what appears to be a recognition or honor-related context. The post reflects Marcus's re
and now the possible of drastic price cuts, a further sign of OpenAI’s desperation, as foreseen by me 2.5 years ago: Called the LLM price wars – which are about to heat up — over two years ago. See es
Gary Marcus critiques fundamental mathematical or computational problems underlying an entire industry, suggesting widespread reliance on flawed or unsound methodologies. The commentary appears on Mar
Bad things apparently come in 4’s; tweet below must be updated with the breaking @wsj news that OpenAI is contemplating drastic price cuts, which is surely a sign of weakness. So far today • Banks to
🚨 Breaking neuroscience/evolution news! New Nature paper provides further evidence for a central hypothesis (with a long lineage) that I defended in my 2004 book, The Birth of the Mind: the evolutiona
Called the LLM price wars – which are about to heat up — over two years ago. See especially predictions 3, 4, and 7, which laid out the no moat, small profit, price war regime we have seen ever since.
Hot take on a bad day for OpenAI: WeWork’s IPO fell apart. I’ve been calling OpenAI the (possible) WeWork of AI for a long time. I will not be surprised if their IPO plans apart, too. Their apparent p
Gary Marcus discusses whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act adequately protects AI systems and companies from legal liability, suggesting that existing protections may not fully apply
Gary Marcus poses a philosophical question about emotional attachment to AI companies, likely exploring whether people have genuine emotional stakes in the success or failure of specific AI organizati
This post by AI researcher Gary Marcus likely compares a prediction or timeline claim about robotaxi deployment to Elon Musk's previous statements about achieving ubiquitous robotaxis within a year, q
Maybe Section 230 doesn’t shield AI companies after all. That would be huge. https://open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus/p/maybe-section-230-doesnt-shield-ai?r=8tdk6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&show
OpenAI is reportedly considering significant price reductions for its AI services, according to a Wall Street Journal report shared by AI researcher Gary Marcus. The move would likely reflect competit
Pop quiz, which of these is no longer true (or at least directionally true), two years later? 9 reasons that OpenAI could someday be seen as the WeWork of AI: 👉 Lots of competitors are catching up. 👉
This tweet from 14 hours ago is on track to get about a million views. But here’s the thing: the conclusion is true, but the tweet itself is already outdated. WSJ’s scoop that OpenAI is considering dr
Gary Marcus discusses expert commentary and analysis regarding OpenAI's initial public offering filing, likely examining implications for the AI industry, company valuation, and competitive landscape.
Wrong horse and too early. Gary nailed it. Time will show this. Masa can hype AI all he likes, but apparently he can’t even get a loan on his OpenAI shares. 🤔 But I actually half agree—and it might su
100%, hallucinations are baked in (as I have been saying since 2001) and that is why basically no LLM company afford to operate in Germany now. We need a better technology. @GaryMarcus Lol, and Google
AI oligarchs are trying to buy elections (again) AI titans are spending 1.3M to shape Utah primaries. Defending Our Values, run by Chris Stewart, spent 880K to support Rep. Celeste Maloy. DOV operates