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No, Anderson Cooper, AI is not going to kill all humans by 2030
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (1130+ words) Anderson Cooper looks pretty worried here, as Jacob Coxon, the ex-OpenAI/ex-Anthropic employee who is the media darling of the moment, tells us that the human species might not be here in five years. I am here to tell you…...
Sad to see Jensen Huang claim that AGI has arrived, with no evidence and no definitions
6+ day, 10+ hour ago (239+ words) A couple hours ago Jensen Huang declared that the race to AGI is over. Unfortunately, Huang gave no evidence and no definitions, which feels to me like an effort at a takeover of a scientific question by corporate fiat. I…...
Dwarkesh Patels’s wildly popular but dangerously misleading account of the OpenAI Hugging Face incident
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1030+ words) The popular podcaster Dwarkesh Patel wrote something completely viral about the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident, which purports to tell the whole story in plain English: It’s well-written and compelling, and it reminds me of something Douglas Hofstadter once wrote about…...
BREAKING: More bad news for the frontier AI companies
2+ week, 6+ day ago (53+ words) Marcus on AI | Substack BREAKING: More bad news for the frontier AI companies Cheaper tools are thriving. What does this mean for the upcoming IPOs? FT just broke this: This is bad news. But wait, there’s more. Keep reading with…...
Leopold???s Folly - by Gary Marcus
3+ week, 2+ day ago (149+ words) Before I get to what I am going to call Leopold’s Folly, let’s talk about check-kiting, a classic scam that has been on my mind. Wikipedia has a nice summary. I am not saying that the generative AI industry is…...
Breaking: U.S. young adults are now more concerned about AI than enthusiastic
3+ week, 4+ day ago (354+ words) Marcus on AI | Substack Breaking: U.S. young adults are now more concerned about AI than enthusiastic Brief update to last’s week’s note re: the growing backlash. You can read more here. This may go down in history as one of the…...