they were terrified of GPT-2. definitely into boy who cried wolf territory.
@garymarcus
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Seven recent challenges facing the AI industry: banks, courts, senator
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Seven challenges to the AI industry in the last 26 hours* Banks rejected SoftBank’s attempt to borrow again OpenAI stock
Germany courts told Google that their LLMs can be held liable for untruths Senator Warren challenged the legitimacy of the SpaceX IPO Anthropic’s -
Gary Marcus posts links to his critiques of Yann LeCun and deep learning
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you can start with this https://
open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus
/p/the-false-glorification-of-yann-lecun?r=8tdk6&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
… and https://
open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus
/p/open-letter-responding-to-yann-lecun?r=8tdk6&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
… and https://
garymarcus.substack.com/p/how-new-are-
yann-lecuns-new-ideas
…. endless receipts. my original deep learning critiques include my Deep Learning a critical appraisal (2018) and Deep learning is hitting a wall (2022), among others, including -
OpenAI price cuts signal weakness, bad things come in fours
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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.
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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.