Marcus on AI

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Marcus on AI
19 Aug 06:57 • 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

Marcus on AI
18 Aug 21:06 • Gary Marcus

Google’s biggest mistake?

A theory about what went wrong, and some open questions about what might happen next

Marcus on AI
18 Aug 18:15 • 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.

Marcus on AI
17 Aug 15:09 • Gary Marcus

No, Dario Amodei, we will not be curing cancer and “most human disease” in five to ten years

What Amodei left out

Marcus on AI
16 Aug 19:39 • Gary Marcus

The hyping of Anthropic’s IPO

Some strong claims, dissected

Marcus on AI
11 Aug 14:12 • Gary Marcus

The one issue unifying the American public

Brief but significant news about a new poll

Marcus on AI
11 Aug 13:42 • Gary Marcus

BREAKING: Circular financing reaches new heights

Things could get bad if this all falls apart

Marcus on AI
10 Aug 15:48 • Gary Marcus

Open-source is NOT the same as open-weight

How The New York Times just bungled this one, and why it matters, immensely

Marcus on AI
07 Aug 17:51 • Gary Marcus

CPUs and the rise of neurosymbolic AI

A new paradigm is developing, and the world is changing faster than most people realize

Marcus on AI
06 Aug 18:33 • Gary Marcus

Seven reasons I wouldn’t count Google out

Down but still in the mix

Marcus on AI
05 Aug 22:24 • Gary Marcus

Elon Musk’s preposterous and possibly harmful prediction about robotic surgery

Some predictions are off. This one is way off.

Marcus on AI
03 Aug 16:39 • Gary Marcus

Two critical updates re: Astra and mathematics

First, abstracting from all the words in my long analysis on OpenAI Astra yesterday, the overall point was that Astra may not be the breakthrough that OpenAI wants you to think it was.

Marcus on AI
02 Aug 21:45 • Gary Marcus

OpenAI’s amazing — but vastly oversold — new model Astra

Eight or nine misconceptions about Astra. See if you can spot the biggest fallacy.

Marcus on AI
31 Jul 18:27 • Gary Marcus

Three reactions to Anthropics’s latest apologia

I wish I could say I was comforted

Marcus on AI
31 Jul 02:27 • Gary Marcus

The seven most shambolic things that happened in AI today.

🤦‍♂️

Marcus on AI
29 Jul 17:33 • Gary Marcus

Dario takes it on the chin

His reputation is crashing

Marcus on AI
28 Jul 17:15 • Gary Marcus

Sorry, Sam and Elon, we have not reached the Singularity

Not that anyone even knows what that means.

Marcus on AI
27 Jul 15:42 • Gary Marcus

Circular financing ain’t what it used to be

Nvidia is falling. The mood has changed.

Marcus on AI
24 Jul 23:00 • Gary Marcus

An open letter to David Sacks

China is closing the gap, but it’s not because we have too much regulation on AI

Marcus on AI
22 Jul 21:30 • Gary Marcus

OpenAI’s disconcerting hack of HuggingFace

and what we should do about it

Marcus on AI
20 Jul 17:30 • Gary Marcus

China has all but caught up. The US is not going to “win” the AI war. Here’s what we should do instead.

Seven options, considered

Marcus on AI
14 Jul 14:51 • Gary Marcus

Breaking: Demis Hassabis endorses preflight safety testing for AI

Good news, for once.

Marcus on AI
29 Jun 13:45 • Gary Marcus

Off for adventures

Leaving you with a couple laughs

Marcus on AI
28 Jun 15:11 • Gary Marcus

China catches up

Has the US been focused on the wrong things?

Marcus on AI
26 Jun 22:43 • Gary Marcus

The month Generative AI lost its mojo

June is not over, and anything could still happen, but a lot already has.

Marcus on AI
25 Jun 15:51 • Gary Marcus

The Generative AI Fizzle™

Disclaimer: Anything can happen at anytime in the market; I don’t give stock picks, and as the saying goes, the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.