Gary Marcus
@garymarcus.bsky.social
AI and cognitive science, Founder and CEO (Geometric Intelligence, acquired by Uber). 8 books including Guitar Zero, Rebooting AI and Taming Silicon Valley. Newsletter (100k subscribers): garymarcus.substack.com
Among other experts, the Guardian article also includes commentary from @garymarcus.bsky.social, whose recent blog - Richard Dawkins and The Claude Delusion - is well worth a read too. 👇
Richard Dawkins and The Claude Delusion
The great skeptic gets taken in
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Crux of Musk-OpenAI trial so far is that Brockman keeps acting as if selling chatbots & API access for profit (which is what they do now) is exactly the same as the original mission (working on the AI safety problem for public benefit). They aren’t. If the jury figures that out, OpenAI loses.
Excellent reminder from @garymarcus.bsky.social of all the arguments about why chatbots(a far better term than the misleading “AI”) are not conscious, using Dawkins’ daft infatuation as the starting point.
Richard Dawkins and The Claude Delusion
The great skeptic gets taken in
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Thank you again @garymarcus.bsky.social, this time for putting in words the disappointment I felt after reading how easily Richard Dawkins was deluded by a language model. garymarcus.substack.com/p/richard-da...
Richard Dawkins and The Claude Delusion
The great skeptic gets taken in
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“The fundamental problem here is that #Dawkins doesn’t reflect on how these outputs have been generated. Claude’s outputs are the product of a form of #mimicry, rather than as a report of genuine #internalstates.” open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
Richard Dawkins and The Claude Delusion
The great skeptic gets taken in
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What is the one thing that most worries you about AI? In a survey of 3,700 AI researchers, only 3% replied existential risk—despite the prominence given to these risks in media. Far more experts are worried aout malicious use, misinformation, job losses, bias, etc. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
“there are already signs of harm, such as AI eroding education, enabling cybercrime & feeding into ppl’s delusions. ‘The companies are raking in funding, & letting society pick up the pieces,’ says @garymarcus.bsky.social . Many researchers argue for focusing on these current threats and—
Elizabeth Gibney@lizziegibney.bsky.social · 4mo agoShould you worry about AI killing us all? I looked at the evidence so you don't have to 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com Ft. @garymarcus.bsky.social @sashamtl.bsky.social @gleave.me @andreamiotti.bsky.social @anthonyaguirre.bsky.social @ghadfield.bsky.social among others!
A deranged shooter racing through a hotel to shoot the President is a real wake-up call … on the need for g̵u̵n̵ ̵c̵o̵n̵t̵r̵o̵l̵ a gigantic ballroom. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump, allies use dinner shooting to press case for White House ballroom
A White House ballroom would be far more secure than any hotel facility, Trump says, as he and his allies argue that Saturday’s shooting bolsters their case.
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What the F is The Onion supposed to do, when this actually happened?
Geoffrey Hinton still very wrong about radiologists futurism.com/artificial-i...
Frontier AI Models Are Doing Something Absolutely Bizarre When Asked to Diagnose Medical X-Rays
Frontier AI models generated "detailed image descriptions and elaborate reasoning traces" without ever seeing the images.
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Should you worry about AI killing us all? I looked at the evidence so you don't have to 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com Ft. @garymarcus.bsky.social @sashamtl.bsky.social @gleave.me @andreamiotti.bsky.social @anthonyaguirre.bsky.social @ghadfield.bsky.social among others!
AI doom warnings are getting louder. Are they realistic?
Researchers are increasingly sounding the alarm that artificial intelligence could end humanity. But such doomsday warnings carry their own risks.
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OK, I'm obsessed with this study in @science.org It took Reddit "Am I The Asshole" posts & asked LLMs if the poster was the asshole. Aaand (surprise) AI was more likely to tell people they were NOT the asshole ... even when humans said yeah YTA 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence
Despite rising concerns about sycophancy—excessive agreement or flattery from artificial intelligence (AI) systems—little is known about its prevalence or consequences. We show that sycophancy is wide...
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Excellent, heartfelt post by @garymarcus.bsky.social on the more-than-a-decade-old failure of AI/machine learning to create anti-cancer drugs, and why (hint: cancer is not a bug in code).
F Cancer
The real test of AI
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Breaking: Altmans’ lack of character, which I have been warning about for years, has finally caught up with him: open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
BREAKING: Sam Altman’s greed and dishonesty are finally catching up to him
It’s about time
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Just when you thought this tragedy couldn't get any stupider.
I am seeing a lot of calls to boycott OpenAI — and I support them.
It’s one thing for the government to reject @AnthropicAI’s terms—- and entirely another to banish them permanently (and, absurdly and punitively declare them a supply chain risk) in favor of someone else who took pretty similar terms and happened to have given more campaign contributions.
I will never not be angry at the way tech bros have told us that the danger is apocalyptic superintelligence when it was always obvious that the reason to worry is that we would put dumb AI in really stupid places.
Gary Marcus@garymarcus.bsky.social · 5mo agoEmbedding unreliable AI deep into the source code of the military without human oversight is the single stupidest thing we could do as a species. And that is *exactly* what the United States is about to do.
Embedding unreliable AI deep into the source code of the military without human oversight is the single stupidest thing we could do as a species. And that is *exactly* what the United States is about to do.
The urgent plea of @garymarcus.bsky.social demands rapid action: the US Military, in the hands of fascists, seeks to bend Anthropic to the knee in the aims of incorporating AI into military weaponry. Gary asks us to call our political representatives right now. I just did. Now it's your turn.
America, and probably the world, stands on a precipice.
Call you Congresspeople, right now.
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open.substack.com/pub/garymarc... If I could, I would like your attention for a moment. This post from @garymarcus.bsky.social is exceedingly important-please read it, share it, and take action.
America, and probably the world, stands on a precipice.
Call you Congresspeople, right now.
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The most urgent plea I have ever written. Please read and share. open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
America, and probably the world, stands on a precipice.
Call you Congresspeople, right now.
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