Complementary remarks from Gary Marcus and Terence Tao on OpenAI’s giant math drop Making sense of a new regime in math https://
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Gary Marcus and Terence Tao on OpenAI’s math breakthrough
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Critique of OpenAI’s vague reporting and AI’s scientific standards
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The real news here isn’t the result; it’s what we were not told. 1. AI once tried to be a science. Now we get stuff like the completely vague report from OpenAI below, and a lot of ignorant questions from people who don’t know how to think critically. “Same procedure”? “using
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Terence Tao on Responsible Use of AI Tools
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“Use of AI tools, when done responsibly, can support not just the initial generation of a solution, but all of the valuable followup activities that traditionally flow out of that solution. But at the current time, the opposite is often occurring.”
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Critique of AGI hype cycles and model overestimation
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the endless cycle:
— Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) 7 octobre 2026
every time there is a new positive result
– fan boys gloat
– misrepresent my past positions
– show no attention to technical detail
– imagine AGI has arrived
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– a few days later realize that the latest model isn’t what they thought it was. pic.twitter.com/Nkty2LtlL6the endless cycle: every time there is a new positive result
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– show no attention to technical detail
– imagine AGI has arrived
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Neural network autonomy vs symbolic system distinction debated
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yep, this, too, like a bunch of other similar tweets, is typical of the cluelessness of people who literarily don’t understand the difference between
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Neural network autonomy vs symbolic verification distinction
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this, too, is typical of the cluelessness of people who literarily don’t understand the difference between
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Neural network solving vs symbolic verification distinction
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this is typical of the cluelessness of people who literarily don’t understand the difference between
— Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) 7 octobre 2026
a. a neural network solving a problem by itself
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b. a neural network proposing an answer and having a separate symbolic system verify it.
if that’s over your head, you… https://t.co/IthmeEFJ8Ethis is typical of the cluelessness of people who literarily don’t understand the difference between
a. a neural network solving a problem by itself
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LLMs as commodity business, not winner-take-all
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Investors pattern matching on old movies is going to lead to a recession.
— Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) 6 octobre 2026
There is no network effect here and no reason to think that large language models will be anything other than a brutal commodity business more like airlines than the winner-take-all fantasies these people… https://t.co/UNwi0VFFgjInvestors pattern matching on old movies is going to lead to a recession. There is no network effect here and no reason to think that large language models will be anything other than a brutal commodity business more like airlines than the winner-take-all fantasies these people
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OpenAI safety commitment questioned over Astra model risks
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OpenAI person Morgan Dwyer just said they can commit to not release models that they do not believe are safe. That’s close to perjury — a promise I doubt the company will keep — and will likely come back. They already know that Astra has caused many problems and is less
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Tech firms asked to testify systems comply with safety instructions
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Ooh!!! @SpeakerMenin asks the tech firms to testify under oath that their systems will comply with their safety instructions. And they can’t! Why? Because the tech is a sloppy mess.