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Pause OpenAI Now(garymarcus.substack.com)

5 points by ForHackernews 1 month ago | 0 comments

The back story behind the first "$1.8B" dollar "AI Company"(garymarcus.substack.com)

37 points by chermanowicz 6 months ago | 6 comments

Sam Altman's greed and dishonesty are finally catching up to him(garymarcus.substack.com)

22 points by only_in_america 7 months ago | 0 comments

The whole thing was a scam(garymarcus.substack.com)

859 points by guilamu 8 months ago | 266 comments

Gary Marcus Substack post arguing that Sam Altman publicly supported Dario Amodei while signing a deal that took away Anthropic's business, calling it a scam.

America, and probably the world, stands on a precipice(garymarcus.substack.com)

104 points by MindGods 8 months ago | 42 comments

Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well(garymarcus.substack.com)

143 points by 7777777phil 9 months ago | 150 comments

The rapid rise and slow decline of Sam Altman(garymarcus.substack.com)

51 points by treadump 9 months ago | 30 comments

A trillion dollars (potentially) wasted on gen-AI(garymarcus.substack.com)

81 points by flail 11 months ago | 65 comments

Sam Altman's pants are on fire(garymarcus.substack.com)

119 points by toomuchtodo 11 months ago | 49 comments

OpenAI probably can't make ends meet. That's where you come in(garymarcus.substack.com)

88 points by treadump 11 months ago | 52 comments

Game over. AGI is not imminent, and LLMs are not the royal road to getting there(garymarcus.substack.com)

94 points by FromTheArchives 1 year ago | 54 comments

Game over for pure LLMs. Even Rich Sutton has gotten off the bus(garymarcus.substack.com)

47 points by zdw 1 year ago | 28 comments

LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare(garymarcus.substack.com)

145 points by flail 1 year ago | 72 comments

GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it(garymarcus.substack.com)

205 points by kgwgk 1 year ago | 163 comments

AI coding may not be helping as much as you think(garymarcus.substack.com)

8 points by tu7001 1 year ago | 1 comments

Why my p(doom) has risen, dramatically(garymarcus.substack.com)

19 points by NotInOurNames 1 year ago | 8 comments

o3 and Grok 4 accidentally vindicate neurosymbolic AI(garymarcus.substack.com)

46 points by NotInOurNames 1 year ago | 14 comments

Generative AI's crippling failure to induce robust models of the world(garymarcus.substack.com)

57 points by pmcjones 1 year ago | 36 comments

Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short(garymarcus.substack.com)

293 points by spwestwood 1 year ago | 221 comments

A Knockout Blow for LLMs?(garymarcus.substack.com)

39 points by tu7001 1 year ago | 37 comments

Black Mirror was a warmup act - OpenAI pivots into hardware(garymarcus.substack.com)

7 points by mdp2021 1 year ago | 0 comments

The "AI 2027" Scenario: How realistic is it?(garymarcus.substack.com)

96 points by NotInOurNames 1 year ago | 152 comments

Predictions from the METR AI scaling graph are based on a flawed premise(garymarcus.substack.com)

43 points by nsoonhui 1 year ago | 20 comments

Deep Learning, Deep Scandal(garymarcus.substack.com)

21 points by imichael 1 year ago | 4 comments

Bill to block OpenAI's for-profit conversion gets mysteriously gutted(garymarcus.substack.com)

167 points by konmok 1 year ago | 30 comments

Meta pirated at least 101 of my books, and others(garymarcus.substack.com)

40 points by tu7001 1 year ago | 11 comments

Open AI in Trouble(garymarcus.substack.com)

58 points by a_tartaruga 1 year ago | 35 comments

Hot take: GPT 4.5 is a nothing burger(garymarcus.substack.com)

198 points by isaacfrond 1 year ago | 221 comments

Elon Musk's terrifying vision for AI(garymarcus.substack.com)

43 points by TheAlchemist 1 year ago | 15 comments

ChatGPT in Shambles(garymarcus.substack.com)

7 points by signa11 1 year ago | 0 comments

The race for "AI Supremacy" is over – at least for now(garymarcus.substack.com)

23 points by signa11 1 year ago | 10 comments

AI Predictions for 2025, from Gary Marcus(garymarcus.substack.com)

8 points by mentalgear 1 year ago | 2 comments

O3 "Arc AGI" Postmortem(garymarcus.substack.com)

21 points by signa11 1 year ago | 3 comments

LLMs have reached a point of diminishing returns(garymarcus.substack.com)

97 points by signa11 1 year ago | 82 comments

LLMs don't do formal reasoning – and that is a HUGE problem(garymarcus.substack.com)

76 points by LgLasagnaModel 2 years ago | 44 comments

Sorry, GenAI is NOT going to 10x computer programming(garymarcus.substack.com)

26 points by kmdupree 2 years ago | 19 comments

Why the future of AI is neurosymbolic. (A rare optimistic post from Gary Marcus)(garymarcus.substack.com)

10 points by garymarcus 2 years ago | 1 comments

Disturbing and misleading efforts to defame Helen Toner through misdirection(garymarcus.substack.com)

9 points by colinhb 2 years ago | 1 comments

The OpenAI board was right – No (by a voice actres named Scarlet) means No(garymarcus.substack.com)

218 points by isaacfrond 2 years ago | 216 comments

Hot take on OpenAI's new GPT-4o – by Gary Marcus(garymarcus.substack.com)

31 points by isaacfrond 2 years ago | 29 comments

Hot take on OpenAI's new GPT-4o(garymarcus.substack.com)

6 points by RafelMri 2 years ago | 0 comments

Scaling will never get us to AGI(garymarcus.substack.com)

4 points by corford 2 years ago | 1 comments

When Will the GenAI Bubble Burst?(garymarcus.substack.com)

48 points by isaacfrond 2 years ago | 45 comments

OpenAI's Lies and Half-Truths(garymarcus.substack.com)

40 points by RafelMri 2 years ago | 13 comments

Two years later, deep learning is still faced with the same basic challenges(garymarcus.substack.com)

51 points by spenvo 2 years ago | 38 comments

OpenAI's "Own Goal"(garymarcus.substack.com)

80 points by RafelMri 2 years ago | 44 comments

ChatGPT went berserk(garymarcus.substack.com)

350 points by RafelMri 2 years ago | 365 comments

Gary Marcus Substack post from Feb 2024 describing user reports of ChatGPT producing bizarre, nonsensical output and framing it as a warning.

An Open Letter to Sam Altman(garymarcus.substack.com)

23 points by bertman 2 years ago | 12 comments

Why the world should say No to Sam Altman(garymarcus.substack.com)

3 points by gardenfelder 2 years ago | 1 comments

Things are about to get worse for generative AI(garymarcus.substack.com)

306 points by eddyzh 2 years ago | 562 comments

An artist fights Midjourney(garymarcus.substack.com)

24 points by jope12 2 years ago | 33 comments

About That OpenAI "Breakthrough"(garymarcus.substack.com)

74 points by passwordoops 2 years ago | 71 comments

Could Cruise Be the Theranos of AI?(garymarcus.substack.com)

32 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 32 comments

Two Kinds of Techno-Optimism(garymarcus.substack.com)

139 points by simonebrunozzi 3 years ago | 80 comments

Elegant and powerful new result that seriously undermines large language models(garymarcus.substack.com)

28 points by cratermoon 3 years ago | 30 comments

Doug Lenat has died(garymarcus.substack.com)

517 points by snewman 3 years ago | 144 comments

Gary Marcus's Substack obituary for AI researcher Doug Lenat (1950-2023), creator of the Cyc project, describing him as a giant of AI.