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Two estimates of how crazy AI Capex has gotten, and four new signs that public opinion has totally soured
7 hrs ago • Gary Marcus
OpenAI is becoming a surveillance company
It’s not even really trying to hide it
Aug 20 • Gary Marcus
Leopold’s Folly
How what one young man did might come to symbolize an entire era
Aug 20 • Gary Marcus
Breaking: The Republican party is panicking over its ties to Big Tech
And panicking with good reason
Aug 20 • Gary Marcus
BREAKING: OpenAI’s unraveling has begun
Their planned IPO is facing headwinds, trust has evaporated, and their burn rate is only getting worse
Aug 19 • Gary Marcus
Google’s biggest mistake?
A theory about what went wrong, and some open questions about what might happen next
Aug 18 • Gary Marcus
Breaking: U.S. young adults are now more concerned about AI than enthusiastic
Brief update to last’s week’s note re: the growing backlash.
Aug 18 • Gary Marcus
No, Dario Amodei, we will not be curing cancer and “most human disease” in five to ten years
What Amodei either ignores or doesn’t know about medicine
Aug 17 • Gary Marcus
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