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
- Leopold’s Folly
- No, Dario Amodei, we will not be curing cancer and “most human disease” in five to ten years
- OpenAI is becoming a surveillance company
- The hyping of Anthropic’s IPO
- The one issue unifying the American public
- Seven reasons I wouldn’t count Google out
- Two critical updates re: Astra and mathematics
- OpenAI's amazing — but vastly oversold — new model Astra
- Three reactions to Anthropic's latest apologia
- The seven most shambolic things that happened in AI today.
- Dario takes it on the chin
- Sorry, Sam and Elon, we have not reached the Singularity
- Circular financing ain't what it used to be
- An open letter to David Sacks
- OpenAI's disconcerting hack of HuggingFace
- China has all but caught up. The US is not going to "win" the AI war