Archive - Marcus on AI

AI Coding Fantasy meets Pac-Man

Mar 12 •

Urgent warning: Black Mirror has entered the United States, with AI as its handmaiden

AI as a smoke screen to cover for authoritarian actions

Mar 10 •

Nobel Prizes and The AI Hype Hall of Fame

GPT-5 may not be here, but just wait til you see the new round of hype

Mar 9 •

Ezra Klein’s new take on AGI – and why I think it’s probably wrong

In a new episode of his podcast with Ben Buchanan former special adviser for artificial intelligence under Biden, entitled, The Government knows A.G.I.

Mar 5 •

Is Elon Musk “dumb”?

Maybe not, but there’s something systematically wrong

Mar 4 •

Standing with my long-term nemesis, standing with science

Mar 3 •

Decoding (and debunking) Hard Fork’s Kevin Roose

His latest New York Times piece tells us a lot about what he doesn’t really understand

Mar 2 •

OpenAI, in deep trouble

Maybe burning money isn’t the answer

Mar 1 •

February 2025

Hot take: GPT 4.5 is a nothing burger

Pure scaling in shambles

Feb 27 •

GPT 4.5 is no GPT-5

Investors should be worried

Feb 26 •

Elon Musk's inability to listen to others is torching almost everything he touches

Last July, when I was still a regular user of X, I warned, not entirely in jest, that Elon Musk was taking a flamethrower to his own reputation.

Feb 25

The United States was founded on speaking up against tyranny

This post isn’t about AI; it’s about our future

Feb 23 •

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