Gary Marcus
Freelance Contributor at Freelance
Built two AI companies, wrote six books, tried to warn you about a lot of things.
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“Big Brother is watching you”— George Orwell, 19842025 is definitely the Orwellian Big Brother home game edition. I had started warning that bad things were coming last year when I realized that OpenAI’s only financially move might be head into surveillance, and started noticing some of the steps they were taking in that direction, like putting Paul Nakasone (former head the NSA) on their board last June, and taking a share in a webcam company last August.
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Worst combination of headline and interview I have ever seen in Tech Review? The headline is bad. The interview is worse.
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Regular readers of the newsletter will know that I have long been negatively impressed by the routine hallucinations of LLMs, and that my favorite example has involved an alleged pet chicken named Henrietta that I allegedly own:This, sent to me by a reader in 2023, is of course a hallucination. I don’t actually own a pet chicken, nor any pet named Henrietta. If I did own a pet chicken I rather doubt I would call it Henrietta.
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