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Gary Marcus

@GaryMarcus
OG GenAI Skeptic; spoke at US Senate. Warned about hallucinations in 2001. Advocating world models & neurosymbolic AI ever since. Author, Marcus on AI & 6 books
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    Gary Marcus
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    Aug 31, 2025
    Three thoughts on what really matters: 1. Fuck cancer 2. Friends are irreplaceable 3. The new "Marcus test" for AI is when AI makes a significant dent on cancer May that happen sooner, much sooner, rather than later. In memory of my childhood friend Paul.
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    oh man are these OpenAI guys desperate. take a little dose of anthropomorphism if you must. but little guys living in your computers? 🤦‍♂️
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    Elon’s simps are apparently too gullible to notice but here are the facts: Musk, April 2024: “AI is the fastest advancing technology that I've ever seen of any kind, and I've seen a lot of technology. You know barely a week goes by without some new announcement, and if you look
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    Elon Musk
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    Aug 31
    Replying to @rauchg
    AI will be able to do anything digital (that doesn’t require shaping atoms) at a superhuman level by the end of next year
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    Six Dubious Strategies The AI industry Has Tried: Doom (Oh No! AI Civilizations!) Gloom (You will all lose your jobs!) Nerd Rapture (AI will be better than all humans by the end of next year!) Terror (What about China!) Price Wars (80% off!) and, now, a new last-ditch
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    Gary Marcus
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    You know why OpenAI is considering “pay when it works” as a business model—even though that may force them to eat a lot of costs? Because customers have finally figured out that it often doesn’t work—and don’t want to pay for slop.
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    Hedgie
    @HedgieMarkets
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    🦔OpenAI is testing a new pricing model where enterprise customers only pay when the AI agent completes the task successfully. If it fails, OpenAI eats the compute cost. The company hasn't disclosed how it determines whether a task counts as a success or what the pricing looks
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