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I have had enough.
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Gary Marcus
@garymarcus@sigmoid.social
mastodon 4.7.3Gary Marcus is a leading voice in artificial intelligence. Founder and C.E.O. of Geometric Intelligence, a machine-learning company acquired by Uber in 2016, his most recent book, Rebooting AI, is one of Forbes’s 7 Must Read Books in AI.
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Joined November 06, 2022
Aspiration:
Let us invent then a new breed of AI systems that mix an awareness of the past with values that represent the future that we aspire to. Our focus should be on figuring on how to build AI that can represent and reason about *values*, rather than simply p
1951 Hannah Arendt quote on the origins of totalitarianism nails it: “this process includes the replacement of all first-rate talents, regardless of their political loyalties, with crackpots and fools…”
When I said in 2022 that LLMs would hit a wall and that scaling laws would not last forever, everyone laughed.
Now even Time Magazine sees that the moment of diminishing returns has likely arrived.
Can a crash in GenAI valuations be far away?
It genuinely appalls me that in America we can have someone act as an unelected vice president —avoiding formal office to duck financial divestment requirements—and use “tactics … aimed at sowing terror and fear at federal employees”.
Elon Musk is destroying so much of what I hold dear.
Didja read about the study that claimed ChatGPT produced poetry “indistinguishable” from Shakespeare?
Critique by NYU’s Ernest Davis, on the unbearable banality of ChatGPT’s poetry: https://cs.nyu.edu/~davise/papers/GPT-Poetry.pdf
Handheld, no tripod, 5x on a phone [iPhone 16 Pro].
Zoom in, to see detail on the moon.
Wow.
Trump got 50% of the US vote
80% of the X vote
X does not represent America.
“Cognitive scientist Gary Marcus says AI must be regulated. He has a plan”.
Today at the WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/articles/cognitive-scientist-gary-marcus-says-ai-must-be-regulated-he-has-a-plan-f0c0b647
On diminishing returns in LLMs and why OpenAI might become the WeWork of AI:
Satya Nadella and the three stages of scientific truth.
A textbook case in how the sociology of science often stands in the way of progress. Short new essay at Marcus on AI:
Elon sucks at math. “Slightly under 50%” (3rd party votes not shown) is not “a clear mandate”.
One of Elon Musk’s most disturbing habits is his tendency to launch his mob against people he disagrees with.
Three cheers for Venmo!
If Gaetz had paid cash he probably would have been confirmed
A look at the latest “AI scaling laws” shell game:
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-new-ai-scaling-law-shell-game
Was Sam Altman’s last line a lie from the start?
Tonight (Monday) in Seattle Town Hall, Gary Marcus and Ted Chiang talk AI and Cognitive Science:
https://townhallseattle.org/event/gary-f-marcus-with-ted-chiang/
@AkaSci@fosstodon.org indeed that’s almost all he does these days.
Discussing the mysterious absence of GPT-5 with @LizClaman @FoxBusiness around 320pm ET.