Browsing: Gary Marcus
“Big Brother is watching you”— George Orwell, 19842025 is definitely the Orwellian Big Brother home game edition. I had started…
Worst combination of headline and interview I have ever seen in Tech Review?The headline is bad. The interview is worse.…
Regular readers of the newsletter will know that I have long been negatively impressed by the routine hallucinations of LLMs,…
Seen this? It (and the update to it) have been all the rage lately, among “AI forecasters”, on social media,…
My DM’s this morning were filled with journalists and friends asking me about a story that increasingly dubious New York…
“draw an image representing a benchmark result that might have been bogus”As a scientist, OpenAI’s widely-watched o3 livestream, December 20th,…
Breaking news, not fiction: OpenAI finally released o3 and Tyler Cowen claimed it was AGITyler Cowen has become the ultimate…
”Those claiming we’re mere months away from AI agents replacing most programmers” should think again
“This isn’t the first time we’ve seen outcomes that suggest some of the ambitious ideas about AI agents directly replacing…
Deep learning is indeed finally hitting a wall, in the sense of reaching a point of diminishing results. That’s been…
Some brief but important updates that very much support the themes of this newsletter:“Model and data size scaling are over.”…