Gary Marcus
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Built two AI companies, wrote six books, tried to warn you about a lot of things.
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garymarcus.substack.com | Gary Marcus
Straight up: the hypesters are winning. Take hallucinations, a deep, serious, unsolved problem with Generative AI, which I have been warning about since 2001. (That’s not a typo; it’s been nearly a quarter century.)Media cheerleaders and industry people are trying to convince you that AGI is here, or imminent, and that hallucinations have gone away or are exceedingly rare. Bullshit. Hallucinations are still here, and aren’t going away, anytime soon.
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garymarcus.substack.com | Gary Marcus
A very short story, in three actsTwo days ago, Sam Altman bought Jonny Ive’s startup, and the two were so proud of the deal they put out something that looks a wedding announcement. One key goal is to make an AI-powered gadget called io. Altman is quite enthusiastic:The idea, it would seem, is for OpenAI to build a little AI-powered gadget that you wear all the time, maybe like a necklace or pendant. A camera and microphone. You would be monitored all the time.
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garymarcus.substack.com | Gary Marcus
Everybody’s talking about a scary and vivid manifesto called AI 2027; even Vice President Vance claims to have read it. No expense was spared, They have a website and a domain name and fancy graphs and big name authors. I read a little piece of it in draft; it’s undeniably vivid, with flourishes that remind me of a thriller (“The President is troubled. Like all politicians, he’s used to people sucking up to him only to betray him later. He’s worried now that the AIs could be doing something similar.
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lawfaremedia.org | Katie Fry Hester |Gary Marcus
Editor's Note: This article is adapted from an open letter initially published on the Substack Marcus on AI and co-signed by state representatives Delegate Michelle Maldonado (D-Va.), Sen. James Maroney (D-Conn.), Sen. Robert Rodriguez (D-Colo.), Rep. Kristin Bahner (D-Minn.), Rep. Steve Elkins (D-Minn.), Sen. Kristen Gonzalez (D-N.Y.), and Rep. Monique Priestley (D-Vt.).
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When I offered @elonmusk a million dollar bet that AI wouldn’t be smarter than the smartest human by the end of 2025 I was confident I would win the bet. I figured I could make a list with dozens, maybe hundreds, of things ordinary people could do that eluded many or most
This is the new Claude 4 Sonnet with extended thinking mode on. Surprising that it doesn't have a better mental model of basic arithmetic at this point in the game — I'm somewhat confused. H/T @GaryMarcus https://t.co/DkAXYjTFTb
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Voluntary commitments only matter if breaking them incurs a social cost, like losing trust. But the pace and complexity of AI news makes it hard for society to keep up. The AI industry is learning that it can do whatever it wants without consequence. For example, where’s the 20%
2025 may be the year of AGI delusion but it is not the year of AGI.
This is the new Claude 4 Sonnet with extended thinking mode on. Surprising that it doesn't have a better mental model of basic arithmetic at this point in the game — I'm somewhat confused. H/T @GaryMarcus https://t.co/DkAXYjTFTb
