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o3, AGI, the art of the demo, and what you can expect in 2025
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/o3-agi-the-art-of-the-demo-and-what
Published: December 21, 2024 15:28
OpenAI’s new model was revealed yesterday; its most fervent believers think AGI has already arrived. Here’s what you should pay attention to in the coming year.
Generative AI’s Continuing Copyright Problems, an Essay in Memory of Suchir Balaji, 1998 - 2024
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/generative-ais-continuing-copyright
Published: December 14, 2024 20:16
In early November, I had a stimulating Zoom call with a former OpenAI employee and Berkeley graduate named Suchir Balaji, who had just left OpenAI.
Humanity’s “Oh shit!” AI moment?
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/humanitys-oh-shit-ai-moment
Published: December 12, 2024 22:21
Not yet, but it could come sooner than you think. Not because we are close to AGI, but because we already have machines that can say one thing and do something else altogether.
Casey (Newton) Strikes Out
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/casey-newton-strikes-out
Published: December 11, 2024 21:31
His continued skepticism of AI skepticism continues to miss the mark
Sora still appears to have trouble with physics
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/sora-still-appears-to-have-trouble
Published: December 10, 2024 02:48
Exactly as I warned in February
Don’t Ride This Bike! Generative AI’s persistent trouble with compositionality and parts
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/dont-ride-this-bike-generative-ais
Published: December 8, 2024 23:13
When the text-to-image AI generation system DALL-E2 was released in April 2022, the two of us, together with Scott Aaronson, ran some informal experiments to probe its abilities.
Hard-forked! Casey Newton’s distorted portrait of Gary Marcus and AI skepticism
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/hard-forked-casey-newtons-distorted
Published: December 6, 2024 16:31
What Casey Newton’s new essay skewering AI skepticism does—and does not—get right
Two visions of AI’s future
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/two-visions-of-ais-future
Published: December 5, 2024 23:09
It’s not looking good
Which CEO will be the last to see it?
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/which-ceo-will-be-the-last-to-see
Published: December 5, 2024 18:05
What kept me going during the dark years of 2022 and 2023 when Generative AI was wildly overhyped and I was constantly ridiculed was the secure knowledge that the truth would eventually come out.
ChatGPT, at Age Two
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/chatgpt-at-age-two
Published: November 28, 2024 18:28
The bullshit just keeps on coming.
Cognitive scientist Gary Marcus says AI must be regulated. He has a plan.
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/cognitive-scientist-gary-marcus-says
Published: November 27, 2024 17:17
Fantastic writeup of my views today at The Wall Street Journal: