Browsing: Gary Marcus
A significant fraction of the money that people have paid for Generative AI has been for coding assistance. When I…
Many of us in the field have started to get emails regularly from people who believe that they have seen…
Has the thorny, decades-old problem of compositionality finally be solved? In an essay yesterday called, Now I Really Won That…
Abstract from a prescient article last year, defining botshit as the human use of untruthful LLM-generated content:Over time, botshit (arguably…
Synthesized video from Dawid van Straaten, prompt (“Generate me a video of two men playing chess”) in which the player…
When the original Google Imagen came out three years ago , I wrote one of my favorite essays, inspired by…
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,…