Gary Marcus — Marcus on AI
About #
Cognitive scientist, NYU Professor Emeritus, and entrepreneur who has been one of the most persistent and prominent critics of large language models and AGI-timeline hype. Argues that scaling compute and data cannot overcome deep architectural limitations of deep learning, and has authored six books including “Rebooting AI” and “Taming Silicon Valley.” Frequently responds in near-real-time to claims from labs and executives about AGI/superintelligence progress.
How this journal works #
Checked every 4 days: each new post or episode in Gary Marcus’s own feeds (substack) becomes one entry, dated by publication and summarised in a few bullets.
Entries
- It remains “very difficult [to find] actual, materially measurable financial impacts” from spending on AI, per new study
- Could this be the Frontier Labs’ WeWork moment?
- We must recall open-ended AI agents with internet access from the market, now
- Complementary remarks from Gary Marcus and Terence Tao on OpenAI’s giant math drop
- Coming soon: New York City’s hearing on AI risks
- Can companies like OpenAI keep getting away with what they are doing? An interview with Fordham law professor Zephyr Teachout
- BREAKING: OpenAI was warned, months before the Hugging Face incident
- Hot take on a weak White House Accord on “Super Intelligence”
- BREAKING: Florida seeks injunction against OpenAI
- BREAKING: AI agent incident toll has risen to tens of thousands
- BREAKING: OpenAI’s security fiasco explodes — and could tank Jensen Huang’s reputation
- “I think the answer is we have to shut the labs down” - Jensen Huang
- Dear President Trump, here’s a deal you can actually make that will make you look great
- Historic UN Security Council Briefing on AI
- BREAKING: Arsonist to write fire code at UN
- The secret behind Meta’s Muse
- Big news at the UN
- Top three ways Dario Amodei has blown his credibility in seven days
- The real reason Trump is standing behind AI — and the latest example of why that might turn out to be a bad idea
- Wake up, people. What we should actually fear, near term, is not so much rogue superintelligence as unleashed agentic AI causing hacking the internet at scale.
- Liability, regulation, and AI’s new false dichotomy
- Sam Altman says trust me; Jensen Huang says everything is going to be fine; Bernie Sanders says AI is more dangerous than nukes
- BREAKING: Secret US AI evaluation framework has been partly revealed
- Translating Sam
- President Trump’s Date With Destiny?
- Two cheers (out of three) for Dario Amodei
- Could rogue agent swarms take over the entire internet in the next six months?
- BREAKING: Two rays of hope
- No, Anderson Cooper, AI is not going to kill all humans by 2030
- The Case for Boycotting Generative AI
- Two dire warnings, one from Terence Tao, the other from someone who just quit Anthropic
- OpenAI’s Egregious Pattern of Misconduct
- Sad to see Jensen Huang claim that AGI has arrived, with no evidence and no definitions
- Pause OpenAI, now
- Hot take on GPT-6 Astra
- The new Sanders-Casar Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act – and why I oppose it
- Elon Musk is on a prediction rampage, and most of the media can’t seem to figure out what to do about it.
- Red Alert: OpenAI is poised to cross an AI safety redline.
- Dwarkesh Patels’s wildly popular but dangerously misleading account of the OpenAI Hugging Face incident
- 5 lessons from the OpenAI / Hugging Face incident
- Excellent new Bill Gates essay on the urgency of having a coherent AI plan
- Anthropic’s $30 trillion fantasy
- Two ways it might all fall apart
- A few words about Canada and the US
- BREAKING: More bad news for the frontier AI companies
- ARR vs ARR. Watch out for this one sly trick.
- BREAKING: OpenAI’s unraveling has begun
- Breaking: The Republican party is panicking over its ties to Big Tech
- Breaking: U.S. young adults are now more concerned about AI than enthusiastic
- Google’s biggest mistake?