Has there ever been a more a soul-crushing technology than Generative AI?
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Gary Marcus argues AI needs symbolic tools, not just scale
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this is so not true.
— Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) 20 juin 2026
anthropic’s own Claude Code uses harnesses, symbolic tools, regular expressions and 500,000 lines of symbolic code.
it’s not scale alone
and it *is* specialized. https://t.co/BrNEpLa9Xdthis is so not true. anthropic’s own Claude Code uses harnesses, symbolic tools, regular expressions and 500,000 lines of symbolic code. it’s not scale alone and it *is* specialized.
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Gary Marcus argues LLM job loss hype is overblown
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Only a narrative violation if you believed people with a lot of money at stake. • Most of the people that said lots of jobs would soon disappear were running LLM companies trying to overhype their wares. • Personally, I told you that the hype wasn’t likely true (e.g. in my
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Gary Marcus Lists Eight Reasons to Slow Hyperscaling
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Eight reasons to slow down hyperscaling:
• What GenAI has already done to society
• What AI slop is doing to the internet
• What data center overbuild is likely to do the economy • What data center overbuild is likely to do the environment • What cyberattacks may do to the -
Gary Marcus criticizes ignorance about world models
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you are kidding me right? i have pushing for world models for a decade, made specific technical criticisms that held since 1998 based on tests i did with models etc. you have shown your own ignorance, nothing more.
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Discussion on LLMs choking on own vomit
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Are LLMs choking on own their vomit? @RMConservative and I discuss. https://t.co/6SxSky1W6F
— Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) 18 juin 2026Are LLMs choking on own their vomit? @RMConservative and I discuss.
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AI bubble evident in quarterly losses except one subsidized quarter
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the bubble is here right now and you can see it in the burn statements. aside from one quarter for Anthropic heavily subsidized by Elon Musk, at the height of tokenmaxxing, every quarter has been a loss, mostly huge losses. “the bubble” is the fact that the valuations don’t
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Gary Marcus celebrates another win for neurosymbolic systems
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yet another win for neurosymbolic systems!
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New paper clarifies that competent AGI has not been achieved yet
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Hypesters sometimes pretend that AGI has already been achieved, but that’s not certainly true by traditional understandings of what that term means. A new paper from Google DeepMind, Waterloo, ANU and UCL makes clear that what the new paper calls “competent AGI” has NOT yet been