Bad things apparently come in 4’s; tweet below must be updated with the breaking @wsj news that OpenAI is contemplating drastic price cuts, which is surely a sign of weakness.
@garymarcus
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LLM price wars predicted two years ago by Marcus
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Called the LLM price wars – which are about to heat up — over two years ago. See especially predictions 3, 4, and 7, which laid out the no moat, small profit, price war regime we have seen ever since. Funny how the tech bros allege I am always wrong when in fact my predictions
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Maybe Section 230 doesn’t shield AI
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and see https://
open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus
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Gary Marcus: Section 230 may not shield AI companies
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Maybe Section 230 doesn’t shield AI companies after all. That would be huge. https://
open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus
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… Link below. With a callout to @rcalo
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Gary Marcus questions Section 230 shield for AI
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the substack: https://
open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus
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Open weight models cause threat, Meta weak – directionally true
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exactly, even the most wrong one is still directionally true, it’s just a different set of open weight models causing the threat. not my fault Meta has been so weak 🙂
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Daily disappointment with unending AI news
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Every day I wake up hoping there is nothing new in AI that I feel like I need to write about. Just for one day. Every day I am disappointed.
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German court ruling holds LLM companies liable for false claims
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If the new German court decision — to hold LLM companies liable for the false claims their LLMs made — become universal, effectively sidelining generative AI until better techniques came along, would you be happy, sad, or indifferent?
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Hallucinations are baked into LLMs, hindering German operations, need better tech
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100%, hallucinations are baked in (as I have been saying since 2001) and that is why basically no LLM company afford to operate in Germany now. We need a better technology.
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Gary Marcus’ 2024 prediction: LLMs commodity, no AGI, profits squeezed
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Me, 2024. LLMs will be commodity; (except for Nvdia) profits will be hard to squeeze out. Techbros: Shut up, Gary. GPT-5 is gonna be AGI. Today: LLMs are commodity; (except for Nvidia) profits have been hard to squeeze out. (Also, still no AGI.* *per definitions generally