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A basic sigmoid extrapolation suggests that this measurement will be close to its performance ceiling in around a year---meaning most randomly sampled remote work projects would be highly automatable

This post discusses ongoing efforts to improve AI safety safeguards, specifically refining systems to accurately differentiate between genuine misuse and legitimate user requests while addressing edge

No country wins a race to superintelligence. An AI vastly smarter than us wouldn't be a weapon we control, we'd be handing control over to it. ControlAI's US Director Connor Leahy (@NPCollapse) on why

Reselling “excess AI processing capacity”: first SPCX, now META. In a rational world these moves would be seen as signs that we have *already* started to overbuild. Boom. $META is developing a cloud s

That day when @elonmusk starts to sound a bit like my 2023 TED Talk, which called for “a global, nonprofit organization to regulate the tech for the sake of democracy and our collective future.” Good

Will the AI bubble pop is the wrong question. We partnered with Damon Cassidy, a video essayist with ~300k subscribers: even if it pops, the race to uncontrollable superintelligence doesn't go away. P

Bridgewater, one of the worlds largest hedge funds, a Tinker customer talks through how they've carefully fine-tuned a model focused on what makes interesting financial news. Their fine-tuned model is

In a new interview with the Washington Post's @ben_guggenheim, ControlAI's US Director Connor Leahy explains why nobody really understands how AI works, the race to uncontrollable superintelligence, a

Muon optimizer shows faster training speeds compared to traditional optimizers, but analysis reveals it sacrifices the simplicity bias that older optimizers maintain, potentially impacting model gener

The media bias against Elon is absolutely insane They don’t report on him They hunt for ways to make him look evil Is it a lie? Doesn’t matter Is there proof? Still doesn’t matter They will lie, twist

MacKenzie Scott has donated over 26 billion to nonprofits. Around 1 billion of that (786M confirmed but many donation amounts aren't disclosed) has funded 226 organizations focused either fully or par

SITUATION EXPLAINED: Why is restricting open source AI models structurally impossible? @ClementDelangue, co-founder and CEO of @huggingface: 'Open weights are fundamentally different than an API. The

That Wall Street Journal article about GLM catching up with Mythos (which is not true & the reporting doesn’t back up) is another one of those “everyone will ask me about it at every conference or mee

Another case of what I call The Klarna Effect. 🦔Ford admitted it had to rehire engineers after replacing them with AI systems that couldn't do the job. The company's VP of hardware engineering said th

Gary Marcus discusses 'The Klarna Effect,' examining how AI adoption by companies like Klarna has led to significant workforce reductions despite increased productivity. The post explores the broader

hard to see how anyone makes much money from all this in the long run. more like the airline industry; very small margins and big expenses pouring trillions in probably wasn’t wise China’s AI playbook

Adam Brown delivers a lecture examining how artificial intelligence is likely to transform physics research and discovery in the future. The talk covers the potential applications and impacts of AI to

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out. The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we

This article examines how coordinated AI systems could be weaponized to undermine democratic processes through large-scale disinformation campaigns and manipulation. Written by prominent AI researcher

🚨 BREAKING: Anthropic and US Govt insiders expect the administration's limits on Fable 5 could be lifted as soon as this coming week, per Axios. The Pentagon and National Security Agency still have to

Gary’s analysis is pretty much spot on as ever. This is such a worrying development People are not getting how significant this news – The White House delaying GPT 5.6 – is. Here’s the context and a s

Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to announce that staplers & pencil erasers will once again be available for sale to some companies, as well as a few close personal friends and important donors. Thi

more arbitrariness, more favoritism. Semafor is reporting that The US government has lifted its block on Mythos 5 in a letter this afternoon from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to Tom Brown. Fable

This is from a popular inference provider GLM-5.2 plus the US banning the most capable new models means open source caught up to SOTA closed source coding models This could be v problematic for Anthro

When does combining LLMs help? Great analysis on combining language models, measured across 67 models from 21 providers. Any policy that routes, votes, cascades, or runs a mixture of agents and then r

'AI Is Dumber Than Investors Think — ft. Gary Marcus' Ed Elson is joined by Gary Marcus to discuss why he’s concerned about the fact that we’re all-in on AI. They explore why he argues generative AI i

Although the tech bros and some pharma think AI will cure cancer, Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna, inventor of the Crispr gene-editing technology says that innovation is still really in the domain of h

Always playing checkers and never chess. President Trump on truth social: any country that imposes a Digital Services Tax on American companies will immediately be met with a 100% tariff on any and al

“America’s preoccupation with “winning” the AI race with China could well lead to unprecedented catastrophes, even catastrophes on a global scale. Not all games are zero-sum, and if this fact doesn’t

“An AI future where only a few US companies, subject to the whims of the US government, have frontier AI runs a high risk of dystopian outcomes.” An AI future where only a few US companies, subject to

Gary Marcus clarifies a distinction between profit and revenue in a discussion, apologizing for previous lack of clarity on this economic/financial concept. The post likely addresses common confusion

Gary Marcus argues that poor performance in military applications correlates with or reflects fundamental weaknesses in AI capabilities and development. The post likely critiques limitations in curren

Gary Marcus posted a correction regarding a New York Times report about a company contemplating delays to their IPO plans. The post appears to address inaccuracies or clarifications needed in the orig

Fantastic interview: Ed Elson is talking with Gary Marcus about AI tech, overrelience on LLMs, the business of AI, etc. I totally enjoyed this: https://youtu.be/_pSivPlRx5o?si=dzrJKpUGTHE0Y76I @edels0

from tokenmaxxing to this in less than three months. anyone who doesn’t see this as affecting Anthropic and OpenAI is not paying attention. UBS says 60% of companies now watching AI budgets are moving

“Gary Marcus … says that investments into scaling AI is the “greatest capital misallocation in history” which leaves everyone “on the hook”. However, he also says that it is still early days for the A

Gary Marcus discusses fundamental challenges and limitations in current AI systems during an interview, likely covering topics such as the gap between narrow and general intelligence, reasoning limita

Connor Leahy argues that accumulating personal capital provides no protection against disempowerment by superintelligent AI systems, suggesting that wealth alone cannot guarantee security or agency in

In a matter of weeks, U.S. federal AI policy has gone from implausibly libertarian to increasingly draconian and opaque. Today, over 35 distinct observations, I analyze how we got here and offer the m

Gary Marcus discusses arguments surrounding trillion-dollar implications, likely related to AI development, regulation, or economic impacts given his expertise in artificial intelligence and cognitive

June has been a dark month for the US generative AI industry, between hamfisted US policy and the transition to cheaper Chinese AI models. And then there is the delay of the OpenAI IPO. Is that the co

Gary Marcus argues that $SPCX exhibits high volatility because it functions as a meme stock tied to a rocket company, with its price movements driven by sentiment and social media enthusiasm rather th

This post likely discusses how Orwellian tactics—such as propaganda, doublespeak, and manipulation of language—are being employed in contemporary contexts, possibly relating to AI, technology, or poli

People want jobs, not subsidies: Taxing corporations to fund programs is usually controversial and partisan - but when it comes to AI job displacement voters are shockingly left wing. It's genuinely e

people with advanced degrees who can’t distinguish between pure LLMs (which is what I critiqued in 2022) and LLMs enhanced with neurosymbolic techniques (which is what I championed in 2022) disappoint

Gary Marcus shares an actual REI advertisement as a follow-up to previous discussion about flawed bicycle examples, crediting Oren Etzioni for the reference. The post appears to contrast a real-world