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@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
AI
Google is making its AI tools easier to restrict, but schools blocking AI entirely will lose students' Search access.
AI
Substantially all of Anthropic's roughly $895.4 billion in purchase and lease commitments reportedly relate to compute and infrastructure.
AI
Grok's account described separate allocation changes and a resolved dashboard issue as users asked for different service options.
AI
Anthropic's planned computing buildout could become harder to finance if Blackstone's forecast of a high junk rating proves right.
AI
One post says both labs independently posted Exponential Time Hypothesis refutations on October 26.
AI
OpenAI says its claimed refutation of the Exponential Time Hypothesis was formalized in Lean and made public.
AI
Anthropic says its registration statement is not yet effective, so securities cannot be sold or offers to buy accepted.
AI
GMO Internet Group CEO Masatoshi Kumagai says customer accounts at 70-plus brokerages and FX firms face unauthorized activity.
World & Business
Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok points to flat S&P 493 revenue per worker and profit margins.
AI
Nicholas Thompson says Soares doesn't save for retirement; another commenter calls relying on an apocalypse prediction a poor strategy.
YouTubeAI
A post citing The Information says Replit moved most of a $100M-plus yearly contract to OpenAI after a 30%-plus discount.
AI
A post argues that what users intend can differ from what AI agents process, limiting direct control.
AI
Block says the model was trained only on human conversation and can listen while speaking.
XAI
A post citing NYU professor Aswath Damodaran says an IPO would be priced on run-rate revenue, not cash flows.
AI
A post says Sam Altman linked open release to changes in internet cyber defenses and new protection against biological threats.
YouTubeAI
Hinton cited a paper to The Telegraph as evidence of awareness; Grady_Booch challenged his definition of consciousness.
AI
The Wall Street Journal reports that some researchers enabled disappearing messages in Signal chats with an outside safety researcher.
AI
geoffreyirving argues key AI companies should act first, then seek wider US participation and China via international agreements.
AI
One commenter doubts the FDIC could untangle agent traces and possibly falsified logs; another cites protections for unauthorized transfers.
AI
Two posts point to security incidents and urge AI-assisted defenses; one specifically calls for faster vulnerability detection and patching.
