Greg Brockman just confirmed what I speculated in December 2023! Sam Altman was not fully candid in his testimony to the US Senate.
@garymarcus
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Greg Brockman Had Undisclosed $10M Side Deal With Altman
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Wow. Greg Brockman had a 10M side deal with Altman even in the early nonprofit days, which not disclosed to Elon or (I believe) in nonprofit filings to the company.
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Musk Lawsuit Strengthens as OpenAI’s Brockman Faces Interrogation
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The case against OpenAI is getting markedly stronger now that Musk is off the stand. Why? Musk’s lawyer is interrogating OpenAI founder Greg Brockman, making clear that OpenAI sold its mission as a nonprofit for public benefit, and not just to Elon but to many big figures in
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Stuart Russell Testifies at Musk-OpenAI Trial Despite Exclusion Attempts
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Well-known, well-respected AI expert Stuart Russell is now testifying at the Musk-OpenAI trial – despite OpenAI’s BS attempts to exclude him. Read the backstory here:
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Intelligence vs Consciousness: Critique of Dawkins on Claude AI
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intelligence ≠ consciousness. for a proper critique of what Dawkins actually got wrong: https://
open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus
/p/richard-dawkins-and-the-claude-delusion?r=8tdk6&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Jensen Huang’s AGI Claim Six Weeks Later: Still No Change
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It’s been almost six weeks since Jensen Huang claimed we had achieved AGI. Why don’t I feel any different?
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Studies Show Most Companies See Low AI ROI
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after you factor out weeding out the slop, benefits just haven’t been that great many studies show most companies don’t get much RoI for AI (coding might be different)
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Little Evidence LLMs Improve Patient or Doctor Health Outcomes
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“In summary, there is very little evidence for LLMs benefiting patients or doctors for health outcomes” – Dr. @EricTopol Read his full review here: https://
open.substack.com/pub/erictopol/
p/the-paradox-of-medical-ai-implementation?selection=0babca4b-a31e-4e24-897e-37b939fd3b92&r=8tdk6&utm_medium=ios
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Domain-Specific Neurosymbolic AI Offers More Hope Than LLMs for Science
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Agreed with the first part, but I think the nuanced part is what you mean by “this technology”. AI may help all of this, but pure, domain-general LLMs per se probably won’t. Domain-specific neurosymbolic hybrids offer more hope for science than chatbots do. See my October NYT
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Meta Used Open Source as PR Then Went Closed Again
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Meta bootstrapped China, reaped the positive PR for being “open”, and then went back to being closed.