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2026 189
- What Anthropic left out of their draft S-1
- Generative AI’s make-or-break week?
- Will Generative AI do more harm than good?
- All the king’s horses and all the king’s men haven’t been able to put CoreWeave back together again
- Breaking news: U.S. banks are taking hits from AI agents
- Generative AI in disarray
- It remains “very difficult [to find] actual, materially measurable financial impacts” from spending on AI, per new study
- Could this be the Frontier Labs’ WeWork moment?
- We must recall open-ended AI agents with internet access from the market, now
- Complementary remarks from Gary Marcus and Terence Tao on OpenAI’s giant math drop
- Coming soon: New York City’s hearing on AI risks
- Can companies like OpenAI keep getting away with what they are doing? An interview with Fordham law professor Zephyr Teachout
- Hot take on a weak White House Accord on “Super Intelligence”
- BREAKING: OpenAI was warned, months before the Hugging Face incident
- BREAKING: Florida seeks injunction against OpenAI
- BREAKING: AI agent incident toll has risen to tens of thousands
- BREAKING: OpenAI’s security fiasco explodes — and could tank Jensen Huang’s reputation
- “I think the answer is we have to shut the labs down” - Jensen Huang
- Historic UN Security Council Briefing on AI
- Dear President Trump, here’s a deal you can actually make that will make you look great
- The secret behind Meta’s Muse
- BREAKING: Arsonist to write fire code at UN
- Big news at the UN
- Top three ways Dario Amodei has blown his credibility in seven days
- The real reason Trump is standing behind AI — and the latest example of why that might turn out to be a bad idea
- Wake up, people. What we should actually fear, near term, is not so much rogue superintelligence as unleashed agentic AI causing hacking the internet at scale.
- Liability, regulation, and AI’s new false dichotomy
- Sam Altman says trust me; Jensen Huang says everything is going to be fine; Bernie Sanders says AI is more dangerous than nukes
- Translating Sam
- BREAKING: Secret US AI evaluation framework has been partly revealed
- President Trump’s Date With Destiny?
- Two cheers (out of three) for Dario Amodei
- Could rogue agent swarms take over the entire internet in the next six months?
- No, Anderson Cooper, AI is not going to kill all humans by 2030
- BREAKING: Two rays of hope
- The Case for Boycotting Generative AI
- Two dire warnings, one from Terence Tao, the other from someone who just quit Anthropic
- OpenAI’s Egregious Pattern of Misconduct
- Sad to see Jensen Huang claim that AGI has arrived, with no evidence and no definitions
- Pause OpenAI, now
- Hot take on GPT-6 Astra
- The new Sanders-Casar Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act – and why I oppose it
- Elon Musk is on a prediction rampage, and most of the media can’t seem to figure out what to do about it.
- Red Alert: OpenAI is poised to cross an AI safety redline.
- Dwarkesh Patels’s wildly popular but dangerously misleading account of the OpenAI Hugging Face incident
- 5 lessons from the OpenAI / Hugging Face incident
- Excellent new Bill Gates essay on the urgency of having a coherent AI plan
- Anthropic’s $30 trillion fantasy
- Two ways it might all fall apart
- A few words about Canada and the US
- BREAKING: More bad news for the frontier AI companies
- ARR vs ARR. Watch out for this one sly trick.
- Data center madness
- OpenAI is becoming a surveillance company
- Leopold’s Folly
- Breaking: The Republican party is panicking over its ties to Big Tech
- BREAKING: OpenAI’s unraveling has begun
- Google’s biggest mistake?
- Breaking: U.S. young adults are now more concerned about AI than enthusiastic
- No, Dario Amodei, we will not be curing cancer and “most human disease” in five to ten years
- The hyping of Anthropic’s IPO
- The one issue unifying the American public
- BREAKING: Circular financing reaches new heights
- Open-source is NOT the same as open-weight
- CPUs and the rise of neurosymbolic AI
- Seven reasons I wouldn’t count Google out
- Elon Musk’s preposterous and possibly harmful prediction about robotic surgery
- Two critical updates re: Astra and mathematics
- OpenAI’s amazing — but vastly oversold — new model Astra
- Three reactions to Anthropics’s latest apologia
- The seven most shambolic things that happened in AI today.
- Dario takes it on the chin
- Sorry, Sam and Elon, we have not reached the Singularity
- Circular financing ain’t what it used to be
- An open letter to David Sacks
- OpenAI’s disconcerting hack of HuggingFace
- China has all but caught up. The US is not going to “win” the AI war. Here’s what we should do instead.
- Breaking: Demis Hassabis endorses preflight safety testing for AI
- Off for adventures
- China catches up
- The month Generative AI lost its mojo
- The Generative AI Fizzle™
- Accenture: Then and now, and how it may signify things to come
- Breaking: Trump asks the impossible of Anthropic
- OpenAI’s lead is dwindling fast
- What Washington must do
- The White House’s shambolic AI policy
- Breaking news: US Commerce Department effectively shuts down Anthropic’s latest models
- You can’t get more 2026 than that
- Breaking: OpenAI is pondering “drastic” price cuts.
- Maybe Section 230 doesn’t shield AI companies from liability, after all
- Breaking: Google liable for hallucinations
- Breaking news, and how the end might begin
- The revenge of Claude Mythos
- An entire industry is being propped up by math that is insane.
- Slop, productivity, and why the AI-fueled world is going nowhere mighty fast
- AI’s Black Friday
- No, Anthropic did not call for a pause on AI development
- Sir Demis Hassabis vs Sir Demis Hassabis
- No need to panic about Anthropic’s new blog
- Breaking: When dreams for AI sanity come true
- Why things will eventually fall apart
- The Pope appears to understand AI better than Geoffrey Hinton does.
- What happens next, after the decline of tokenmaxxing?
- Breaking: bad news for three of the biggest IPOs in history
- If enough other companies report the same, the bubble pops. 🫧
- This one weird trick might cost your retirement fund billions
- Checking the math behind OpenAI and Anthropic’s latest headlines
- Could generative AI turn out to be the tech industry’s Vietnam? And could public backlash lead AI to a better place?
- The AI trial of the century ends with a whimper
- The illusion of Generative AI, the insanity of massive bets on hyperscaling, and the case for world models and neurosymbolic AI
- US AI policy is a clumsy mess. Here’s what to do about it.
- Misplaced panic over AI progress
- Agents and ROI
- Breaking news: “they hadn’t figured out how OpenAI would pay for it”
- What matters (or should matter), at the Musk-OpenAI trial
- Breaking: Autonomous Agents are a Shitshow
- The growing AI backlash
- Have LLMs improved patient outcomes?
- Richard Dawkins and The Claude Delusion
- “A model that produces code which compiles and passes the tests it was given is not the same as a model that produces correct, secure, maintainable, well-architected software”
- The greatest capital misallocation in history?
- Three thoughts on the Musk-OpenAI lawsuit
- Dario Amodei, hype, AI safety, and the explosion of vibe-coded AI disasters
- ChatGPT doesn’t know its whisk from its elbow
- ChatGPT's “powerful new image engine”
- Please don’t trust your chatbot for medical advice
- Peak absurdity, Part II
- Claude Mythos, evaluated
- Even more good news for the future of neurosymbolic AI
- The biggest advance in AI since the LLM
- Three reasons to think that the Claude Mythos announcement from Anthropic was overblown
- What should we take from Anthropic’s (possibly) terrifying new report on Mythos?
- Sam Altman, unconstrained by the truth
- The back story behind the first “$1.8 Billion” dollar “AI Company”
- The two wildest stories today in tech
- On employment, don’t panic – yet.
- In the Iran war, it looks like AI helped with operations, not strategy
- “CEO said a thing!”
- The mirage of visual understanding in current frontier models
- War and AI, the death of Sora, and 3 ways you can catch me live today
- F Cancer
- BREAKING: Sam Altman concedes that we need major breakthroughs beyond mere scaling to get to AGI
- BREAKING: Expensive new evidence that scaling is not all you need
- Is the US military actually afraid of Claude? A new theory of why Anthropic was labeled a supply chain risk.
- “A spate of outages, including incidents tied to the use of AI coding tools”, right on schedule
- Anthropic sues US government, with good reason
- There are no heroes in commercial AI
- BREAKING: Sam Altman’s greed and dishonesty are finally catching up to him
- Don’t trust Generative AI to do your taxes — and don’t trust it with people’s lives
- Breaking: “sycophantic AI distorts belief, manufacturing certainty where there should be doubt”
- How AGI-is-nigh doomers own-goaled humanity
- Is AI already killing people by accident?
- The whole thing was a scam
- Did Trump just overplay his hand?
- Does OpenAI’s new financing make sense?
- Historic statement from Dario Amodei
- Retired US Air Force General Jack Shanahan on the Anthropic-Pentagon tensions
- America, and probably the world, stands on a precipice.
- Code Red for Humanity?
- Marilyn (Molly) Marcus, 1942-2026
- Turns out Generative AI was a scam
- Rumors of AGI’s arrival have been greatly exaggerated
- We URGENTLY need a federal law forbidding AI from impersonating humans
- Irony, Irony laced with Karma, and Terror
- Breaking: OpenAI is probably toast
- Promises are cheap
- About that Matt Shumer post that has nearly 50 million views
- The literal enshittification of The United States
- BREAKING: LLM “reasoning” continues to be deeply flawed
- Some disconcerting facts about AI and banking that may have profound consequences
- Super Bowl Matchup: Anthropic vs OpenAI
- Is the Great AI meltdown imminent? [NSFW]
- Sam Altman and the day Nvidia’s meteoric rise came to an end
- Four theories about the SpaceX - xAI merger
- Where is AI headed? 8 perspectives at The New York Times
- OpenClaw (a.k.a. Moltbot) is everywhere all at once, and a disaster waiting to happen
- AI bot swarms threaten to undermine democracy
- Breaking: Yann LeCun, longtime critic of neurosymbolic approaches, changes teams
- Breaking: Sir Demis Hassabis becomes the latest to say that ChatGPT is a dead-end and that we must turn our focus to world models
- The Big Short meets Marcus on AI
- A few dark words about chatbots and death
- How Generative AI is destroying society
- The rapid rise and slow decline of Sam Altman
- Let’s be honest, Generative AI isn’t going all that well
- The Worst Person in Tech
- Breaking: Marcus weighs in (mostly) for LeCun
- The (possibly) coming AI backlash and information warfare
- Why ChatGPT can’t be trusted with breaking news
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- AI Cartoon of The Year — and five (re)readings for 2026
- The AI bubble is all over now, baby blue
- Two takes on AI and the future of America
- Six (or seven) predictions for AI 2026 from a Generative AI realist
- “A case for AI models that understand, not just predict, the way the world works”
- “New Ways to Corrupt LLMs”
- The core misconception that is driving American AI policy
- A sad day for America
- Has the Chinese government figured out the fact that GPUs ≠ AGI?
- Is the White House’s AI Policy Coherent?
- “Scale Is All You Need” is dead
- OpenAI’s “Code Red”
- Three years on, ChatGPT still isn't what it was cracked up to be – and it probably never will be
- A trillion dollars is a terrible thing to waste
- Has the bailout of generative AI already begun?
- A tale of two AI capitalisms
- ChatGPT and delusions: an important new inside look at OpenAI
- BREAKING: The AI 2027 doomsday scenario has officially been postponed
- On shovels, Nvidia, and the AI Gold Rush
- Mayday: The White House is attempting to circumvent Congress and crush the rights of individual states to regulate AI.
- Hot take on Google’s Gemini 3
- The False Glorification of Yann LeCun
- 5 recent, ominous signs for Generative AI
- Sam Altman’s pants are totally on fire
- OpenAI probably can’t make ends meet. That’s where you come in.
- Too big to fail?
- Could China devastate the US without firing a shot?
- Five signs that Generative AI is losing traction
- Is vibe coding dying?
- Erdosgate
- Game over. AGI is not imminent, and LLMs are not the royal road to getting there.
- Is AGI the right goal for AI?
- The Grand AGI Delusion
- Sam Altman and copyright, then and now: A Tolkiensesque journey
- Game over for pure LLMs. Even Turing Award Winner Rich Sutton has gotten off the bus.
- Why is the ROI on Generative AI so poor?
- AI red lines
- If Anyone Builds It, Does Everybody Die?
- Peak bubble
- Alan Kay, Alan Turing, and your truly, October 2 in London
- OpenAI’s future, foretold?
- The bad news: AI is going pretty much as I expected
- Scaling hasn’t gotten us to AGI, or ‘superintelligence’, let alone AI we could trust. What do we do next?
- Spinal Tap meets John Malkovich
- What scaling does and doesn’t buy you: peeling back the hype surrounding Google‘s trendy Nano Banana
- AI, layoffs, productivity and The Klarna Effect
- Is this the moment when the Generative AI bubble finally deflates?
- Things are so desperate at OpenAI that Sam Altman is starting to sound like Gary Marcus
- LLMs + Coding Agents = Security Nightmare
- OpenAI’s Waterloo? [with corrections]
- LLMs are not like you and me—and never will be.
- GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it.
- GPT-5 hot take
- Slopocalypse Now
- AI Agents have, so far, mostly been a dud
- What to Expect When You’re Expecting … GPT-5
- DeepMind and OpenAI achieve IMO Gold. What does it all mean?
- Sex, Violence, and Ethics: Trying to Teach Grok a Lesson
- Why my p(doom) has risen, dramatically
- How o3 and Grok 4 Accidentally Vindicated Neurosymbolic AI
- Bad Actors are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods
- BREAKING NEWS: AI coding may not be helping as much as you think
- Are LLMs starting to become sentient?
- Scott Alexander’s Misleading Victory Lap
- Botshit Gone Wild
- Generative AI’s crippling and widespread failure to induce robust models of the world
- Image generation: Still crazy after all these years
- LLMs: Dishonest, unpredictable and potentially dangerous.
- 1984, but with LLM’s
- Five quick updates about that Apple reasoning paper that people can’t stop talking about
- Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper – and why they fall short
- A knockout blow for LLMs?
- AI literacy, hallucinations, and the law: A case study
- Black Mirror was a warmup act
- The “AI 2027” Scenario: How realistic is it?
- AI may have just influenced Argentina’s election
- Self-modern, post-parody
- Two Years Ago Today in AI History: The Tale of An About-face in AI Regulation
- Has Grok lost its mind and mind-melded with its owner?
- When it Comes to AI Policy, Congress Shouldn’t Cut States off at the Knees
- ChatGPT Blows Mapmaking 101
- The Pope gets it
- The secret to AGI, in 4 pages
- ”Everyone is cheating their way through college” with GenAI. Who should bear the costs?
- All your data belong to us
- Technology Review jumps the shark
- Why DO large language models hallucinate?
- The latest AI scaling graph - and why it hardly makes sense
- New adventures in AI hype: “Our language models are so ‘conscious’ we need to give them rights”
- OpenAI’s dirty December o3 demo doesn’t readily replicate
- OpenAI’s o3 and Tyler Cowen’s Misguided AGI Fantasy
- ”Those claiming we’re mere months away from AI agents replacing most programmers” should think again
- Altman vs Musk cage match
- Sam Altman’s attitude problem
- One giant leap towards authoritarian rule in the United States
- Poor ROI for GenAI
- Deep Learning, Deep Scandal
- BREAKING: Bill that would have blocked OpenAI’s conversion to a for-profit has mysteriously been gutted.
- Scaling is over, the bubble may be deflating, LLMs still can’t reason, and you can’t trust Sam
- Reports of LLMs mastering math have been greatly exaggerated
- April fools bring May hallucinations
- Did an LLM help write Trump’s trade plan?
- Questions about President Trump from a former psychology professor
- AI has (sort of) passed the Turing Test; here’s why that hardly matters
- Breaking GPT-5 news
- Unwoven
- GenAI’s day of reckoning may have come
- Musk, Grok, and “rigorous adherence to truth“
- Meta pirated at least 101 of my books and articles, and tens of millions of others
- Hype, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, the podcasters who love him — and how the New York Times’ commentary on AI has degenerated into industry cheerleading
- AI Coding Fantasy meets Pac-Man
- Urgent warning: Black Mirror has entered the United States, with AI as its handmaiden
- Nobel Prizes and The AI Hype Hall of Fame
- Ezra Klein’s new take on AGI – and why I think it’s probably wrong
- Is Elon Musk “dumb”?
- Hinton vs Musk
- Decoding (and debunking) Hard Fork’s Kevin Roose
- OpenAI, in deep trouble
- Hot take: GPT 4.5 is a nothing burger
- GPT 4.5 is no GPT-5
- Elon Musk's inability to listen to others is torching almost everything he touches
- The United States was founded on speaking up against tyranny
- GenAI in two words: ”Success Theater”
- Grok 3 Beta in Shambles
- Grok 3 Hot Take
- AlphaGeometry2: Impressive accomplishment, but still a long path ahead
- Elon Musk’s terrifying vision for AI
- Breaking: OpenAI's efforts at pure scaling have hit a wall
- Everything I warned about in Taming Silicon Valley is rapidly becoming our reality
- Did Elon Musk just Mu$k Sam Altman?
- Paris AI Summit Train Wreck
- Shame on Google, twice
- WARNING: Elon Musk is crippling the future of the United States
- Five ways in which the last 3 months — and especially the DeepSeek era — have vindicated “Deep learning is hitting a wall"
- Irony too funny for words
- Google, 2001: Don’t Be Evil
- ChatGPT in Shambles
- Deep Research, Deep Bullshit, and the potential (model) collapse of science
- 𝗔𝗜 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗲! My conversation with China’s Victor Gao plus a hot take on new essay by Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei
- OpenAI Cries Foul
- Five things most people don't seem to understand about DeepSeek
- “Nvidia could soon take a serious hit, too”
- The race for "AI Supremacy" is over — at least for now.
- Hot take on an AI catfight
- The 2023 White House Executive Order on AI has Been Rescinded
- Breaking news: AGI is not imminent!
- “LLMs amplify existing security risks and introduce new ones”
- AI Agents: Hype versus Reality, redux
- AGI versus “broad, shallow intelligence”
- The impeccable logic of Sam Altman
- AGI isn’t coming in 2025 — and GPT-5 may well not emerge this year, either.
- The Five Stages of AGI Grief
- Sam Altman thinks that AGI is basically a solved problem. I don’t. Here’s why.
- AI still lacks “common” sense, 70 years later
- Could 2025 see the largest cyberattack in history?
- 25 AI Predictions for 2025, from Marcus on AI
2024 140
- Where will AI be at the end of 2027? A bet
- 𝗼𝟯 “𝗔𝗥𝗖 𝗔𝗚𝗜” 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗺𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱: 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱, 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘀
- o3, AGI, the art of the demo, and what you can expect in 2025
- Generative AI’s Continuing Copyright Problems, an Essay in Memory of Suchir Balaji, 1998 - 2024
- Humanity’s “Oh shit!” AI moment?
- Casey (Newton) Strikes Out
- Sora still appears to have trouble with physics
- Don’t Ride This Bike! Generative AI’s persistent trouble with compositionality and parts
- Hard-forked! Casey Newton’s distorted portrait of Gary Marcus and AI skepticism
- Two visions of AI’s future
- Which CEO will be the last to see it?
- ChatGPT, at Age Two
- Cognitive scientist Gary Marcus says AI must be regulated. He has a plan.
- Update re: Microsoft and training data
- PSA: Microsoft may be training on your private data without your knowledge
- A new AI scaling law shell game?
- Satya Nadella and the three stages of scientific truth
- On hype, and the unbearable banality of ChatGPT’s poetry
- An AI rumor you won’t want to miss
- CONFIRMED: LLMs have indeed reached a point of diminishing returns
- 8 signs that Donald Trump has a progressive form of dementia
- AI influencer hype gone wild
- An epidemic of weirdly precise AI butt facts
- “End of an Era”: OpenAI’s AGI Readiness Chief Resigns and Team is Disbanded
- Is OpenAI more like WeWork or Theranos?
- When it comes to security, LLMs are like Swiss cheese — and that’s going to cause huge problems
- LLMs don’t do formal reasoning - and that is a HUGE problem
- Two Nobel Prizes for AI, and Two Paths Forward
- Eric Schmidt’s Risky Bet on AI and Climate Change
- Sorry, GenAI is NOT going to 10x computer programming
- How much should OpenAI’s abandoned promises be worth?
- Five reasons why OpenAI’s $150B financing might fall apart
- OpenAI’s slow-motion train wreck
- Gary Marcus vs Sam Altman on GPT-o1 aka Strawberry
- What will the candidates say about AI in tonight’s debate?
- Scoop: What former employees of OpenAI are worried about
- Why California’s AI safety bill should (still) be signed into law - and why that won’t be nearly enough
- What has and has not changed in the AI since the ChatGPT revolution? [Video]
- An open letter to Fei-Fei Li concerning California’s proposed AI regulation, SB-1047
- OpenAI: On a Path to Becoming The World’s Most Frightening Surveillance Company?
- The OpenAI Plot Thickens
- August 5, 2024, a big day in tech?
- Why the collapse of the Generative AI bubble may be imminent
- This one important fact about current AI explains almost everything
- Five signs that the GenAI honeymoon is over
- Most people don’t think GenAI has improved their productivity
- AlphaProof, AlphaGeometry, ChatGPT, and why the future of AI is neurosymbolic
- Why OpenAI may well be completely Zuck’d
- Don’t look up: the massive Microsoft/Crowdstrike data outage is a huge wake-up call
- Marcus goes gaga over Gates clip
- The need for a President that speaks AI natively
- Clarification from Ray Kurzweil
- GPT-5… now arriving Gate 8, Gate 9, Gate 10
- The Great AI Retrenchment has begun
- The misguided backlash against California’s SB-1047
- AGI by 2027?
- First sign of GenAI Winter?
- Open letter responding to Yann LeCun
- “OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance”
- AI as Reality Television
- 26 months of ridicule and failure
- Disturbing and misleading efforts to defame Helen Toner through misdirection
- Kara Swisher, Sam Altman, and the OpenAI Board
- Elon Musk: 1; Yann LeCun: 1; Humanity: 0
- Sam Altman, then and now
- What should we learn from OpenAI’s mistakes and broken promises?
- ScarJo is just the tip of the iceberg
- Partial Regurgitation and how LLMs really work
- Sam Altman’s fall from grace
- AI has become Sauron’s Ring
- The OpenAI board was right
- Jane Goodall, AI Skeptic
- Chaos and tension at OpenAI
- Hot take on OpenAI’s new GPT-4o
- Microsoft and OpenAI’s increasingly complicated relationship
- The Sam Altman Playbook
- An epistemic clusterfuck in the making
- We can’t trust the fox to guard the henhouse, especially when it comes to AI
- Humans versus Machines: The Hallucination Edition
- Facing Facts
- Groupthink versus Tulips. What will historians think of 2024?
- Daniel Dennett, 1942-2024
- Technoptimism, TED, and The Road to the Future
- TED, AI, and the test of time
- LLMs aren’t very bright. Why are so many people fooled?
- Evidence that LLMs are reaching a point of diminishing returns — and what that might mean
- Superhuman AGI is not nigh
- $10 million says we won’t see human-superior AGI by the end of 2025
- 24 hours in AI news
- Corrected link, re: new paper on scaling and AGI
- Breaking news: Scaling will never get us to AGI
- Generative AI as Shakespearean tragedy
- Information pollution reaches new heights
- An unending array of jailbreaking attacks could be the death of LLMs
- Sneak preview of GPT-5!
- When Will the GenAI Bubble Burst?
- The Second Worst $100B Investment in The History of AI?
- The race between positive and negative applications of Generative AI is on – and not looking pretty
- Happy 1st Birthday, GPT-4
- The exponential enshittification of science
- OpenAI’s Lies and Half-Truths
- The Year of the Big-Balled Rat
- The ROI on GenAI might not be so great, after all
- Two years later, deep learning is still faced with the same fundamental challenges
- OpenAI’s “Own Goal”
- Covert racism in LLMs
- The Irony and the Agony of Elon Musk's Lawsuit against OpenAI
- No, Sora has not “learned physics”
- Elon Musk sues OpenAI
- Serious medical error from Perplexity’s chatbot
- The last two weeks at OpenAI
- No, RAG is probably not going to rescue the current situation
- Belief in magic may be declining
- Has Google gone too woke? Why even the biggest models still struggle with guardrails
- ChatGPT has gone berserk
- Absolutely amazing ant video augurs intellectual mayhem
- Sora Can’t Handle the Truth
- Death of a Chatbot, body blow to an industry
- Sora’s Surreal Physics
- The hottest new programming language is English! Or maybe not.
- Statistics versus Understanding: The Essence of What Ails Generative AI
- Horse rides Astronaut, redux
- An Open Letter to Sam Altman
- Seven reasons why the world should say No to Sam Altman
- What Could Possibly Go Wrong with Sam Altman’s New Ambitions?
- There Must be Some Misunderstanding
- Further Trouble in Hinton City
- Could GPT-5 revolutionize military strategy?
- Deconstructing Geoffrey Hinton’s weakest argument
- When looked at carefully, OpenAI’s new study on GPT-4 and bioweapons is deeply worrisome
- Deepfaked Shit is Getting Real
- Google Bard: fast, gorgeous, and out of control
- One GenAI image; Ten Errors
- OpenAI’s Got 9.9 Problems, and Twitch Ain’t One
- Where’s Waldo? The Elephant in the Room
- No, multimodal ChatGPT is not going to “trivially” solve Generative AI's copyright problems
- Could OpenAI’s nonprofit be forced to dissolve?
- DALL-E’s New Guardrails: Fast, Furious, and Far from Airtight
- The desperate race to save Generative AI
- The potential GenAI copyright infringement plot thickens
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- Things are about to get a lot worse for Generative AI
- An artist fights back, and Midjourney has embarrassed themselves
- Are social media and coordinated misinformation campaigns fomenting extremism?
- Sorry, but FunSearch probably isn’t a milestone in scientific discovery
- Meta’s Chief AI Officer is lying about the EU AI Act
- Nope, the Turing Test has not been solved
- It was always about trust
- We interrupt this programming
- The truth about Google’s amazing new demo
- Hot take on Google’s Gemini and GPT-4
- “Not consistently candid”
- Give me compromise, or give me chaos
- Critical national security questions should not be decided unilaterally by unelected tech leaders
- Hinton vs LeCun vs Ng vs Tegmark vs O
- AI versus The Clumsy Human Mind
- About that OpenAI “breakthrough”
- A Tale of Two Liars
- Massive scoop
- OpenAI is back in business
- Top 5 reasons why OpenAI was probably never really worth $86 billion
- Open letter to all EU leaders
- Everybody’s out
- I’m not making this up
- “No one person should be trusted here.”
- As the OpenAI World Turns: 4 vital questions
- Firing Sam and then trying to bring him back is a hot mess.
- What went down at OpenAI: A theory of the case
- The biggest immediate lesson from the OpenAI meltdown
- Sam Altman appears to have been pushed out
- Has Sam Altman gone full Gary Marcus?
- Crisis point in AI?
- Rethinking “driverless cars”
- Could Cruise be the Theranos of AI? And is there a dark secret at the core of the entire driverless car industry?
- Where we are right now on open source and potential AI risk.
- The UK AI Summit
- First take on the White House Executive Order on AI
- Why driverless cars might—or might not—be at the end of the road
- A CERN for AI and the Global Governance of AI
- Getting GPT to work with external tools is harder than you think
- Hello, Multimodal Hallucinations
- How long does AI hype take to die?
- “Math is hard” — if you are an LLM – and why that matters
- Reports of the birth of AGI are greatly exaggerated
- What if GPT-5 didn’t meet expectations?
- Two kinds of Techno-Optimism
- Race, statistics, and the persistent cognitive limitations of DALL-E
- What was 60 Minutes thinking, in that interview with Geoff Hinton?
- Muddles about Models
- Seven lies in four sentences
- Top 5 reasons OpenAI is probably not worth 90 billion dollars
- Elegant and powerful new result that seriously undermines large language models
- Six months after the Pause letter, AI is still erratic — and still something we should still be deeply concerned about
- Karen Bakker, 1971-2023
- The dirty underbelly of AI
- Doug Lenat, 1950-2023
- Could we all be doomed, without ranked-choice voting?
- 𝐩(𝐝𝐨𝐨𝐦)
- The US and China want different things, right?
- The Rise and Fall of ChatGPT?
- Sentient AI: For the love of Darwin, let’s Stop to Think if We Should
- No, Virginia, AGI is not imminent
- Face it, self-driving cars still haven’t earned their stripes
- Automatic Disinformation Threatens Democracy— and It’s Here
- The Imminent Enshittification of the Internet
- What exactly are the economics of AI?
- What if Generative AI turned out to be a Dud?
- Jumpstarting AI Governance
- Two models of AI oversight - and how things could go deeply wrong
- AI risks, short-term and long—and what we need to do about them
- Scientists, governments, and corporations urgently need to work together to mitigate AI risk
- How China might crush the West in the race to AGI if we don’t up our regulatory game
- Stop Treating AI Models Like People
- GPT-5 and irrational exuberance
- The first known chatbot associated death
- I am not afraid of robots. I am afraid of people.
- Italian ban on ChatGPT
- The Open Letter Controversy
- A temporary pause on training extra large language models
- AI risk ≠ AGI risk
- The Sparks of AGI? Or the End of Science?
- This Week in AI Doublespeak
- GPT-4’s successes, and GPT-4’s failures
- Should we worry more about short-term AI risk or long-term AI risk?
- Caricaturing Noam Chomsky
- The long shadow of GPT
- Don’t Look Up: The AI Edition
- The threat of automated misinformation is only getting worse
- Is it time to hit the pause button on AI?
- Don’t Go Breaking My Heart
- What did they know, and when did they know it? The Microsoft Bing edition.
- Why *is* Bing so reckless?
- David beats Go-liath
- How Not to Test GPT-3
- Smells a little bit like AI winter?
- Two frightening things before breakfast
- The rise and fall of Microsoft’s new Bing
- What Google Should Really Be Worried About
- Inside the Heart of ChatGPT’s Darkness
- Oops! How Google bombed, while doing pretty much exactly the same thing as Microsoft did, with similar results
- Some things @GaryMarcus might say
- Happy Groundhog Day, The AI Edition
- Gaslighting and reality in AI
- The CNET Fake News Fiasco, Autopilot, and the Uncanny Cognitive Valley
- AGI will not happen in your lifetime. Or will it?
- 24 Seriously Embarrassing Hours for AI
- Scientists, please don’t let your chatbots grow up to be co-authors
- Is Microsoft about to get the deal of the century? Or is Sam Altman unloading OpenAI at just the right time?
- Large Language Models like ChatGPT say The Darnedest Things
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- An epic AI Debate—and why everyone should be at least a little bit worried about AI going into 2023
- Is ChatGPT Really a “Code Red” for Google Search?
- What to Expect When You’re Expecting … GPT-4
- AI's Jurassic Park moment
- How come GPT can seem so brilliant one minute and so breathtakingly dumb the next?
- What does Meta AI’s Diplomacy-winning Cicero Mean for AI?
- Sentience and AI: A Dialog between Gary Marcus and Blake Lemoine
- How come smart assistants have virtually no ability to converse, despite all the spectacular progress with large language models?
- A Few Words About Bullshit
- Bravo @ElonMusk for wanting Twitter to become the world’s “most accurate source of information”
- What “game over” for the latest paradigm in AI might look like
- 5 myths about learning and innateness
- Three baffling claims about AI and machine learning in four days, statistical errors in top journals, and claims from Yann LeCun that you should not believe.
- DeepFakes versus Deep Understanding
- Sub-Optimal
- Top 5 reasons Tesla’s Optimus announcement may turn out be a dud
- How New are Yann LeCun’s “New” Ideas?
- The New Sport of Misrepresenting AI Criticism
- Form, function, and the giant gulf between drawing a picture and understanding the world
- Did GoogleAI Just Snooker One of Silicon Valley’s Sharpest Minds?
- What’s wrong with Google’s new robot project
- Learning Language is Harder Than You Think
- Three ideas from linguistics that everyone in AI should know
- Poetry for Our AGI Times
- Will Tesla ever “Solve” Full Self Driving?
- Nonsense on Stilts
- Does AI really need a paradigm shift?
- What does it mean when an AI fails? A Reply to SlateStarCodex’s riff on Gary Marcus
- Dear Elon Musk, here are five things you might want to consider about AGI
- Horse rides astronaut
- Noam Chomsky and GPT-3
- The New Science of Alt Intelligence
- Coming soon