Google’s Pentagon deal seems to allow for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.
@garymarcus
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OpenAI Squanders Lead, Missing Projections in Trouble
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OpenAI, which squandered its tremendous lead and is now missing its projections, is in trouble. There’s no two ways about it.
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OpenAI’s exponential growth projections miss mark
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When you project exponential growth – and miss. I stand by my call that OpenAI is likely to someday be seen as the WeWork of AI.
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Vibe Coding Adoption Among Professional Developers Survey
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In this informal poll, only a fifth of all coders and software engineers have gone over full time to vibe coding. Most use vibe coding; few use it exclusively. Most still do some hand coding. Amateurs without considerable coding experience should consider carefully.
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Altman Brockman promises versus Elon’s character assessment debate
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The question of whether Altman and Brockman did what they promised ≠ the question of whether Elon is a good person. Musk argued that Altman and Brockman broke promises and abused the notion of a nonprofit. All that can be true, *regardless of what you think of Elon*.
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Musk’s Honesty: Omission as Potential Deception
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but if you wanted to make an argument that Musk lied by omission, in the above, i could see that.
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Microsoft OpenAI Divorce: Strategic Separation Underway
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The divorce between Microsoft and OpenAI that I projected three years ago is now underway. Time for everyone to start seeing other people.
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Sam Altman’s Documented Lies: Critical Timeline Evidence
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i have been documented Sam’s lies for years, eg. this was August 2024: https://
theguardian.com/technology/art
icle/2024/aug/03/open-ai-sam-altman-chatgpt-gary-marcus-taming-silicon-valley
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AI Safety Risks: When Hype Outpaces Responsibility
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If a major car company had AI fan boys and released a car with loose lug nuts and the wheels came off, after hyping it as the greatest thing ever, and a bunch of people died, those fan boys would say “y’all shoulda known”.
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Correcting User Misconceptions About LLM Behavior
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that said, another tweet by the same user does correctly assess what’s wrong with most user’s model of what LLMs say.