I could watch this astonishing video a thousand times, lamenting each time at how far AI has gone off course — towards an amazing but wrong-headed destination.
@garymarcus
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Why Haven’t We Achieved More AI Progress in 55 Years?
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if we can’t do this much 55 years later with all the alleged exponentials, we are obviously doing something wrong
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Neural Networks Still Fail at Basic Tasks Despite Progress
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In 1969, Minsky & Papert showed that two-layered neural nets couldn’t learn to determine whether a figure was connected or not. Fast forward to 2024, with vastly more data, layers & compute, and neural nets (as we now know how to make them) still fail at some really basic stuff:
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Gary Marcus addresses misinformation and social media dynamics
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That Gary Marcus cares a lot about misinformation and the distorted dynamics of social media. Like almost everyone else he awaits accurate information about motive.
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LeCun Elon debate ad hominem arguments AI discussion
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It’s not “slightly” ad hominem to change the topic from aging to someone’s possible substance abuse problem. I am no Elon fan boy but seriously tired of LeCun frequent retreats to ad hominem.
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Sora AI video generation consistency physics comparison debate
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I guess that is a new video? But sora which definitely does not have consistent physics has a nearly identical video 4 months ago: https://
youtu.be/o5wAMFadDic?si
=XSbkZvbdi3yqFGZH
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Company Retracts AGI Claims, Reports Level 2 Progress Only
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I think they said they are nearing (not at) level 2 and didn’t even use the term AGI afaik? definitely a retrenchment from jokes about “AGI has been achieved internally” and some of other public statements they made.
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AI Hype Cycle: Why LLMs Won’t Achieve AGI Alone
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https://
garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-great-ai
-retrenchment-has-begun
… “It was always going to happen; the ludicrously high expectations from last 18 ChatGPT-drenched months were never going to be met. LLMs are not AGI, and (on their own) never will be; scaling alone was never going to be enough. The only mystery was what -
AI Retrenchment Signals Growing Market Consolidation Trend
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Still further signs of the Great AI Retrenchment.
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The Great AI Retrenchment Has Begun Analysis
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https://
open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus
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