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Data center madness - by Gary Marcus
3+ week, 1+ day ago (335+ words) given how toxic data centers have become. Share Marcus on AI > You don’t have to be Einstein to see the math ain’t mathing. It's AI math 😁 Gary, we probably diverge a bit on this one. Keep up...
Leopold???s Folly - by Gary Marcus
3+ week, 3+ 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…...
Sad to see Jensen Huang claim that AGI has arrived, with no evidence and no definitions
6+ day, 19+ 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…...
Anthropic’s $30 trillion fantasy
2+ week, 4+ day ago (137+ words) A lot of people (not me) are bothered by the just-reported fact that Anthropic has sometimes asked prospective employees whether they are comfortable with the possibility that the price of the company stock could potentially crash to zero. But whatever…...
The Case for Boycotting Generative AI
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (1148+ words) It has become clear by now that the frontier labs are knowingly and by their own admission doing something irreversible and incredibly dangerous without public consent. They are already causing harm, and things could conceivably get much worse. They have…...
OpenAI’s Egregious Pattern of Misconduct
5+ day, 16+ min ago (775+ words) The story that broke this morning—still waiting for OpenAI’s full response—blew my mind. And yet also left me unsurprised. Here are nine things I learned just in the last week: The widely discussed and worrisome Hugging Face incident…...
Excellent new Bill Gates essay on the urgency of having a coherent AI plan
2+ week, 4+ day ago (243+ words) Excellent new essay by Bill Gates, echoing many of the themes I have been writing about here and in my 2024 book Taming Silicon Valley: The critical, lasting importance of the decisions we make now. The risks that AI creates, around…...
Two dire warnings, one from Terence Tao, the other from someone who just quit Anthropic
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (487+ words) Back in fall of 2024, Terence Tao, perhaps the most respected living mathematician, was eager to learn about what AI could and could not do. Although he was skeptical of the then recently-released o1, he was optimistic about a future in which…...
BREAKING: More bad news for the frontier AI companies
3+ week, 2+ hour ago (53+ words) Marcus on AI | Substack BREAKING: More bad news for the...
ARR vs ARR. Watch out for this one sly trick.
3+ week, 22+ hour ago (259+ words) Anthropic’s boosters are rushing to celebrate their ARR. As they do, be mindful that the acronym ARR can actually mean two rather different things, Annual Recurring Revenue or Annualized Run Rate. (And 65 other things, less immediately relevant.) You might think…...