Sitemap - 2024 - Marcus on AI

Update re: Microsoft and training data

PSA: Microsoft may be training on your private data without your knowledge

A new AI scaling law shell game?

Satya Nadella and the three stages of scientific truth

On hype, and the unbearable banality of ChatGPT’s poetry

An AI rumor you won’t want to miss

CONFIRMED: LLMs have indeed reached a point of diminishing returns

8 signs that Donald Trump has a progressive form of dementia

AI influencer hype gone wild

An epidemic of weirdly precise AI butt facts

“End of an Era”: OpenAI’s AGI Readiness Chief Resigns and Team is Disbanded

Is OpenAI more like WeWork or Theranos?

When it comes to security, LLMs are like Swiss cheese — and that’s going to cause huge problems

LLMs don’t do formal reasoning - and that is a HUGE problem

Two Nobel Prizes for AI, and Two Paths Forward

Eric Schmidt’s Risky Bet on AI and Climate Change

Sorry, GenAI is NOT going to 10x computer programming

How much should OpenAI’s abandoned promises be worth?

Five reasons why OpenAI’s $150B financing might fall apart

OpenAI’s slow-motion train wreck

Gary Marcus vs Sam Altman on GPT-o1 aka Strawberry

What will the candidates say about AI in tonight’s debate?

Scoop: What former employees of OpenAI are worried about

Why California’s AI safety bill should (still) be signed into law - and why that won’t be nearly enough

What has and has not changed in the AI since the ChatGPT revolution? [Video]

An open letter to Fei-Fei Li concerning California’s proposed AI regulation, SB-1047

OpenAI: On a Path to Becoming The World’s Most Frightening Surveillance Company?

The OpenAI Plot Thickens

August 5, 2024, a big day in tech?

Why the collapse of the Generative AI bubble may be imminent

This one important fact about current AI explains almost everything

Five signs that the GenAI honeymoon is over

Most people don’t think GenAI has improved their productivity

AlphaProof, AlphaGeometry, ChatGPT, and why the future of AI is neurosymbolic

Why OpenAI may well be completely Zuck’d

Don’t look up: the massive Microsoft/Crowdstrike data outage is a huge wake-up call

Marcus goes gaga over Gates clip

The need for a President that speaks AI natively

Clarification from Ray Kurzweil

GPT-5… now arriving Gate 8, Gate 9, Gate 10

The Great AI Retrenchment has begun

The misguided backlash against California’s SB-1047

AGI by 2027?

First sign of GenAI Winter?

Open letter responding to Yann LeCun

“OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance”

AI as Reality Television

26 months of ridicule and failure

Disturbing and misleading efforts to defame Helen Toner through misdirection

Kara Swisher, Sam Altman, and the OpenAI Board

Elon Musk: 1; Yann LeCun: 1; Humanity: 0

Sam Altman, then and now

What should we learn from OpenAI’s mistakes and broken promises?

ScarJo is just the tip of the iceberg

Partial Regurgitation and how LLMs really work

Sam Altman’s fall from grace

AI has become Sauron’s Ring

The OpenAI board was right

Jane Goodall, AI Skeptic

Chaos and tension at OpenAI

Hot take on OpenAI’s new GPT-4o

Microsoft and OpenAI’s increasingly complicated relationship

The Sam Altman Playbook

An epistemic clusterfuck in the making

We can’t trust the fox to guard the henhouse, especially when it comes to AI

Humans versus Machines: The Hallucination Edition

Facing Facts

Groupthink versus Tulips. What will historians think of 2024?

Daniel Dennett, 1942-2024

Technoptimism, TED, and The Road to the Future

TED, AI, and the test of time

LLMs aren’t very bright. Why are so many people fooled?

Evidence that LLMs are reaching a point of diminishing returns — and what that might mean

Superhuman AGI is not nigh

$10 million says we won’t see human-superior AGI by the end of 2025

24 hours in AI news

Corrected link, re: new paper on scaling and AGI

Breaking news: Scaling will never get us to AGI

Generative AI as Shakespearean tragedy

Information pollution reaches new heights

An unending array of jailbreaking attacks could be the death of LLMs

Sneak preview of GPT-5!

When Will the GenAI Bubble Burst?

The Second Worst $100B Investment in The History of AI?

The race between positive and negative applications of Generative AI is on – and not looking pretty

Happy 1st Birthday, GPT-4

The exponential enshittification of science

OpenAI’s Lies and Half-Truths

The Year of the Big-Balled Rat

The ROI on GenAI might not be so great, after all

Two years later, deep learning is still faced with the same fundamental challenges

OpenAI’s “Own Goal”

Covert racism in LLMs

The Irony and the Agony of Elon Musk's Lawsuit against OpenAI

No, Sora has not “learned physics”

Elon Musk sues OpenAI

Serious medical error from Perplexity’s chatbot

The last two weeks at OpenAI

No, RAG is probably not going to rescue the current situation

Belief in magic may be declining

Has Google gone too woke? Why even the biggest models still struggle with guardrails

ChatGPT has gone berserk

Absolutely amazing ant video augurs intellectual mayhem

Sora Can’t Handle the Truth

Death of a Chatbot, body blow to an industry

Sora’s Surreal Physics

The hottest new programming language is English! Or maybe not.

Statistics versus Understanding: The Essence of What Ails Generative AI

Horse rides Astronaut, redux

An Open Letter to Sam Altman

Seven reasons why the world should say No to Sam Altman

What Could Possibly Go Wrong with Sam Altman’s New Ambitions?

There Must be Some Misunderstanding

Further Trouble in Hinton City

Could GPT-5 revolutionize military strategy?

Deconstructing Geoffrey Hinton’s weakest argument

When looked at carefully, OpenAI’s new study on GPT-4 and bioweapons is deeply worrisome

Deepfaked Shit is Getting Real

Google Bard: fast, gorgeous, and out of control

One GenAI image; Ten Errors

OpenAI’s Got 9.9 Problems, and Twitch Ain’t One

Where’s Waldo? The Elephant in the Room

No, multimodal ChatGPT is not going to “trivially” solve Generative AI's copyright problems

Could OpenAI’s nonprofit be forced to dissolve?

DALL-E’s New Guardrails: Fast, Furious, and Far from Airtight

The desperate race to save Generative AI

The potential GenAI copyright infringement plot thickens