#gary-marcus — Public Fediverse posts

Seems like #GaryMarcus is changing his tone: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-biggest-advance-in-ai-since-the

Well, I disagree with his take on #ClaudeCode being #neurosymbolic and that it "changes everything". An if clause in the #LLM orchestration or harness does not make a neurosymbolic #AI

Zooming out a bit though, I think he starts seeing coding assistants in a more positive light.

“ #ClaudeCode isn’t better because of #scaling. It’s better because it is #neurosymbolic. #Anthropic accepted the importance of using #classical #AI #techniques alongside #neuralnetworks — precisely the marriage I have spent my career advocating.” - #GaryMarcus open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

🤖 Behold, the groundbreaking revelation: a dataset meticulously cataloging every half-baked AI claim by Gary Marcus, now scored against "evidence"—because apparently, that's a thing now. 📊🔍 Prepare your popcorn as two AIs engage in a thrilling academic slap fight over who's better at fact-checking... Gary Marcus. 🍿🤦‍♂️
https://github.com/davegoldblatt/marcus-claims-dataset #AIClaims #EvidenceFactChecking #GaryMarcus #AcademicDebate #DatasetDrama #HackerNews #ngated

Gary has a point, at the same it is not the whole story in my view. Regardless the scam and all the bad things, Generative AI has added value for me here and now. That doesn't diminish the scam and all the bad effects of the technology, still it is also a perspective.
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/turns-out-generative-ai-was-a-scam
#ai #garymarcus

#LeShow w/ #HarryShearer

#AI expert #GaryMarcus on the AI illusion and why it isn't intelligence

https://harryshearer.com/le-shows/december-21-2025/#
#artificialIntelligence #tech #BigTech #AIhype

🚨 Spoiler Alert: 🚨 Let's all take a moment of silence for the AGI dream that never was, as #LLMs tripped over their own **neural shoelaces** and face-planted into the abyss of unfulfilled promises. Meanwhile, Gary Marcus continues his 30-year marathon of "I told you so's" 🏃‍♂️💨 with a victory lap around our collective #disappointment. 🏆💥
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-last-few-months-have-been-devastating #AGIfail #GaryMarcus #AIpromises #technews #HackerNews #ngated

Gary Marcus: GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it.. “Typical was a comment from Andres Franco, on X ‘GPT 5 has been a huge letdown, way more than I expected’. Another reader, previously an OpenAI fan, told me ‘o3 was a shit good model, [whereas GPT-5] was an utter disappointment, especially given the kind of hype towards its release.’ An NBA President […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/12/gpt-5-overdue-overhyped-and-underwhelming-and-thats-not-the-worst-of-it-gary-marcus/

Gary Marcus has a point with asking for giving neurosymbolic AI a chance. At the same time something like Genie 3 shows that we have not hit a wall yet, at least with world models.
#AI #GaryMarcus #Genie3

Weekly output: Dashlane, T-Mobile home 5G, AI skepticism at Black Hat, the Fourth Amendment at Black Hat, Black Hat’s network, AOL dial-up

Black Hat is one of the more exhausting and intimidating events that I cover. That’s not because I stress over the risk of my devices getting compromised, but because almost all of its two-day schedule is blocked out by timeslots featuring from nine to 11 briefings each. That increases the odds of my missing something good and reduces the time in which I can write up what I do see.

Over at Patreon, I explained to readers why I decided not to stick around Vegas for another couple of days to cover the DEF CON security conference, somewhat to my dismay.

8/6/2025: Dashlane to Delete Its Free Tier of Service, PCMag

I wrote this Monday afternoon off an embargoed copy of Dashlane’s press release after getting further input from a publicist on two points.

8/6/2025: T-Mobile Tweaks 5G Home Internet to Add Benefits (and Fine-Print Fees), PCMag

An editor suggested I take a look at the T-Mobile announcement heralding some added perks to its fixed-wireless service, then I noticed a change in the fine print around its prices. That made this much more interesting to write about.

8/7/2025: This AI Skeptic Thinks AI Is Bringing Human Brains Down to Its Level, PCMag

After catching the tail end of a panel featuring Gary Marcus at Web Summit Vancouver, I made sure to watch his talk at Black Hat and found that an excellent use of my time.

8/8/2025: ACLU Expert: Please Don’t Make Bulk Snooping by Governments Easier, PCMag

Jennifer Granick’s talk was another one I’d put on my to-watch list after first looking over Black Hat’s schedule. I wish I shared her optimism that more companies would be inspired to adopt data-minimization practices to avoid aiding government surveillance.

8/9/2025: Inside Black Hat’s Network Security Operation: Humans Are Still a Problem, PCMag

After several years of writing about the penultimate panel in which Black Hat network admins relate how the event’s network worked and how badly some attendees behaved on it, I had the chance to quiz two of these experts beforehand. I should have done that sooner!

8/9/2025: End of an E-Era: AOL to End Dial-Up Internet Access, PCMag

I did not plan on working Saturday morning after the cognitive overload of Black Hat, but seeing tech journalist Ernie Smith’s Bluesky post highlighting the impending demise of AOL’s dial-up access left me feeling compelled as a Gen Xer to write about it. Unfortunately, my sleep debt may have caught up with me when I left two cringe-inducing typos in the same snakebit paragraph: spelling “America Online” as “American Online” and writing that the company’s 15th birthday happened in 2020, not 2000.

#ACLU #AI #AmericaOnline #AOL #BlackHat #BlackHatNOC #cybersecurity #dialUp #FourthAmendment #GaryMarcus #informationSecurity #infosec #JenniferGranick #LasVegas #TMobileFixedWireless #TMobileHome5G #techPrivacy #Vegas

Generative AI's crippling failure to induce robust models of the world

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/generative-ais-crippling-and-widespread

#HackerNews #GenerativeAI #CripplingFailure #RobustModels #AIResearch #GaryMarcus

A worthwhile article by Gary Marcus for people interested in LLMs and the limitations of LLMs.

Open the article and search for 'Hanoi'.

The well-known Tower of Hanoi is a puzzle that can be solved by junior programmers, but above 7 floors (disks), LLMs simply crumble under the complexity.

As Marcus says: "AI is not hitting a wall. But LLMs probably are."

@jeridansky

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-knockout-blow-for-llms
#LLM #AI #Puzzle #TowerOfHanoi #GaryMarcus

Gary Marcus: A knockout blow for LLMs?. “There’s actually an interesting weakness in the new argument—which I will get to below—but the overall force of the argument is undeniably powerful. So much so that LLM advocates are already partly conceding the blow while hinting at, or at least hoping for, happier futures ahead.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/10/gary-marcus-a-knockout-blow-for-llms/

🚨 HOT TAKE ALERT 🚨: 🤖💥 "AI guru" Gary Marcus strikes again with another profound revelation: GPT 4.5 is just a "nothing burger." 🍔🥱 Who knew that continuously whining about #AI advancements could become an art form? 🎨🙄
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/hot-take-gpt-45-is-a-nothing-burger #GaryMarcus #NothingBurger #TechCritique #AIAdvancements #HackerNews #ngated

Two more reasons why every politician or organisation should leave X if they didn't already,
Elon Musk's vison on AI, Grok3 is integrated in X.
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/elon-musks-terrifying-vision-for?triedRedirect=true

Also, X blocking Signal,
https://www.disruptionist.com/p/elon-musks-x-blocks-links-to-signal

#X #Musk #Signal #Grok3 #GaryMarcus

Sam Altman says “we are now confident we know how to build AGI” - On Sunday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman offered two eye-catching predictions abou... - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/01/sam-altman-says-we-are-now-confident-we-know-how-to-build-agi/ #simulatedreasoning #superintelligence #claude3.5sonnet #machinelearning #garymarcus #anthropic #samaltman #srmodels #biz⁢ #claude #o1-pro #openai #agi #ai #o1 #o3 #sr

How to tame AI: More regulations, or maybe a boycott?
Have the risks of artificial intelligence risen to the point where more regulation is needed? Cognitive scientist Gary Marcus argues that the federal government — or maybe even international agencies — will need to step in.

The Food and Drug Administration or the Federal Av
https://cosmiclog.com/2024/11/27/how-to-tame-ai-more-regulations-or-maybe-a-boycott/
#GeekWire #ArtificialIntelligence #Books #GaryMarcus #Technology #TedChiang

Ofcourse @garymarcus was right when he predicted that the top foundation models would encounter diminishing returns and could be in some ways in a dead-end street on the road to "AGI". However current models with current capabilities will still cause a big revolution/disruption. NotebookLM is a good example, that works on basis of Gemini 1.5, not the best model, still the implementation/application made the difference.
#AI #garymarcus #LLM #GoogleGemini #NotebookLM #OpenAI

Good sceptical article by Gary Marcus, regardless the fundamental problems with current LLMs , progress is remarkable however in my opinion. So reliable agents with LLMs are a problem, many other applications are not,
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms-dont-do-formal-reasoning-and
#ai #garymarcus

#LLM don’t do formal reasoning - and that is a HUGE problem #AI #GaryMarcus

Important new study from #Apple

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms-dont-do-formal-reasoning-and

📬 Massenüberwachung durch KI: Die umstrittenen Pläne von Open AI
#Datenschutz #KünstlicheIntelligenz #ChatGPT #GaryMarcus #KI #OpenAI #SamAltman https://sc.tarnkappe.info/d80301

> The median split of AI wisdom is this: either you understand that current neural networks struggle mightily with outliers (just as their 1990s predecessors did) – and therefore understand why current AI is doomed to fail on many of its most lavish promises – or you don’t.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/06/ai-llms
#GaryMarcus #AIsLLMs #AISalami
/HT Tinmit Gebru @ dair-community

Gary Marcus again ... writing about the threat of information pollution

"... the problem is quickly getting worse."
"If we don’t get a handle on this problem, fast, nobody will believe anything."

Overly pessimistic or just (beginning) reality?

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/information-pollution-reaches-new

#marcus #garymarcus #infopollution #informationpollution #misinformation #enshittification #threattodemocracy #llm #garbage #chatgpt #chatbot #ai

Gary Marcus talks about

"The exponential enshittification of science"

"If science journals and science itself are overrun by LLM-generated garbage, as now seems imminent, my agnostic “I can’t quite tell yet if LLMs will ultimately be of net benefit to society” is going to switch to “shut it down if they can’t fix this problem.”"

#marcus #garymarcus #enshittification #science #llm #garbage #fakesubmission #chatgpt

Gary Marcus peer reviewed an Open AI paper, interesting read.
#ai #generativeAI #gpt4 #openai #garymarcus
https://open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus/p/when-looked-at-carefully-openais

According to AI expert Gary Marcus, generative AI - the technology that can create realistic content from text, images, or audio - is facing a swift end. Marcus argues that it is based on flawed assumptions and lacks common sense, creativity, and generalization. He warns that it is a dead end that will not lead to human-like intelligence or solve real-world problems.

#GenerativeAI #GaryMarcus #AIcriticism

https://www.dezeen.com/2023/08/21/generative-ai-swift-end-gary-marcus/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=HariTulsidas%2Fmagazine%2FMind+and+Matter

"What if Generative AI turned out to be a Dud?" Is the end nigh? :ablobthinkingeyes:

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/what-if-generative-ai-turned-out

#genai #AIeconomics #GaryMarcus