Gary Marcus

KI-Kritiker Gary Marcus: Warum die Technologie an ihre Grenzen stößt Der Hype um KI ist gigantisch, doch die Technologie hat massive Schwächen. Ein Gespräch mit Gary Marcus über die drohende Finanzblase.

Der Neurowissenschaftler und #KI- Unternehmer @garymarcus.bsky.social warnt seit Jahren, dass der Boom der »Künstlichen Intelligenz« auf einem Missverständnis beruht. Jetzt häufen sich auffällig die Stimmen, die auf seine Linie einschwenken: archive.is/3PFlk #Interview

they also make money from Krugman, Reich, Vance, Snyder Cadwalladr etc.

Free speech is a complicated beast.

Super Bowl Matchup: Anthropic vs OpenAI You don’t have to be a football fan to enjoy the ads

Anthropic vs OpenAI Superbowl smackdown!

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Four theories about the SpaceX - xAI merger Spoiler alert: it’s probably not really about synergy

Four theories about the SpaceX merger: garymarcus.substack.com/p/four-theor...

best not miss!

Is the Great AI meltdown imminent? A huge shift from Nvidia doesn’t bode well for OpenAI or Generative AI maximalism:

What will A.I's impact be on scientific research? Melanie Mitchell Computer scientist “I believe this impact will not be as rapid as many think. A.I. systems still can't do things humans are essential for, like asking the right questions, planning experiments and entire scientific programs, and understanding data in different contexts.”

Gary Marcus Cognitive scientist “People are greatly confused about large language models, attributing a humanlike intelligence to mimicry machines that turn out to be superficial and unreliable. Intelligence is about reasoning flexibly in face of the unknown, and large language models continue to struggle mightily with that.”

Helen Toner A.I. policy researcher “I expect we'll have A.I. systems that can clearly contribute at the cutting edge of multiple scientific fields, but that you still wouldn't trust with planning summer camps for your kid.”

@melaniemitchell.bsky.social @garymarcus.bsky.social @hlntnr.bsky.social on where AI won’t be taking science (“asking the right Qs, planning experiments &entire sci programs,&understanding data in diff contexts”), intelligence (“reasoning flexibility in the face of the unknown”) &summercamp madness🧪

Hehe, quoting @garymarcus.bsky.social "if you care about the security of your device or the privacy of your data, don’t use OpenClaw. Period."

(Bonus : if your friend has OpenClaw installed, don’t use their machine. A. Don’t catch a CTD — chatbot transmitted disease)

OpenClaw (a.k.a. Moltbot) is everywhere all at once, and a disaster waiting to happen Not everything that is interesting is a good idea.

OpenClaw (aka Moltbot) may have gone completely viral, but it is also a disaster waiting to happen.

A PSA for why you should steer clear.

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but i don’t really miss X, tbh

they cannot be trusted and it’s a security nightmare and in the making

my own take is explained in detail here: bsky.app/profile/kost...

strongly strongly urge you to watch this, for a different perspective:

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The fundamental mistake of people like @chrislhayes.bsky.social is to ignore and fail to engage with the principled skepticism of LLMs by people like Ilya Sutskever, Rich Sutton, Yann LeCun, Demis Hassabis, Melanie Mitchell and myself that has been increasingly vindicated.

YouTube video by Steve Eisman Gary Marcus on the Massive Problems Facing AI & LLM Scaling | The Real Eisman Playbook Episode 42

This conversation between Steve Eisman (who predicted the last big financial bubble) and AI researcher @garymarcus.bsky.social is a great resource for those trying to understand the distinctions between LLMs and other more defensible AI endeavors. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI7X...

Even the conservative Wall St Journal sees that Trump and
Miller’s goons have gone far too far.

They recruited the comments section and gave them weapons and sovereign immunity.

firing and incarcerating the officers who did this is not enough.

ICE is rotten from the top down.

yesterday’s murder wasn’t an accident. it was a culture.

Timeline: How the Shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti Unfolded A moment-by-moment analysis of video from the scene shows that Mr. Pretti was already restrained when fatal shots were fired, which appears to contradict the federal government’s account of the event.

Murder in broad daylight, by the U.S. government.

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will Minnesota be Trump’s undoing?

*I* am not actually the one who is confused.

“the federal government cannot be trusted to lead this investigation.”

- Tim Walz with the quote of the year, though honestly at this point you could just cut the last four words.

Finally somebody who understands me!

World models are necessary but not sufficient.

Pure LLMs don’t have them at all.

i of course have been pushing for them for many years.

"With the help of Meta’s media lobby he has succeeded in fooling most of the press and some fraction of the public. LeCun has lapped it up, and done absolutely nothing to set the record straight.

But the myths about the originality of his thought simply aren’t true." - @garymarcus.bsky.social

AI bot swarms threaten to undermine democracy When AI Can Fake Majorities, Democracy Slips Away

"The “wisdom of crowds” works only if the crowd is made of distinct individuals. When one operator can speak through thousands of masks, that independence collapses."

by @garymarcus.bsky.social

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Iceland? Greenland? I am so confused.

Breaking: Sir Demis Hassabis becomes the latest to say that ChatGPT is a dead-end and that we must turn our focus to world models Per the Times of India:

LLMs are not the way to AGI - and the big guns are finally starting to acknowledge it.

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from May 2024, no less!

As skepticism of AI deepens, we keep coming back to this Gary Marcus interview from May — where he argued OpenAI would be “the WeWork of AI.”

@cnbc.com @garymarcus.bsky.social
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