Browsing: Gary Marcus
If biological life is, as Hobbes famously said, “nasty, brutish, and short”, LLM counterparts are dishonest, unpredictable, and potentially dangerous.…
“Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’” — 1984,…
Five quick updates on that Apple paper everybody is talking about (see my summary here, if you don’t yet know…
The Apple paper on limitations in the “reasoning” of Large Reasoning Models, which raised challenges for the latest scaling hypothesis,…
Quoth Josh Wolfe, well-respected venture capitalist at Lux Capital:Ha ha ha. But What’s the fuss about? Apple has a new…
Dog bites man, law firm uses hallucinated cases. Is this even news anymore?Straight up: the hypesters are winning.Take hallucinations, a…
A very short story, in three actsAct I: OpenAI pivots into hardwareTwo days ago, Sam Altman bought Jonny Ive’s startup,…
Everybody’s talking about a scary and vivid manifesto called AI 2027; even Vice President Vance claims to have read it.No…
On a hiking trip once, three decades ago, I accidentally coined (but failed to trademark) the phrase “self-modern, post-parody”. I…
The US Capitol, May 15, 2023, photo by the author, the night before the Senate’s first hearing on AI oversightWe…