integrity and intellectual honesty are vital. and experiments, at the cost of tens of billions, have settled it. scaling isn’t working, and that’s why Sam is saying what he is saying. and it confirms that my intuitions were correct i am sorry you missed all that context.
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Deep Hitting Is Hitting: Research Paper Discussion
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hilariously that was literally the point of my much-hated 2022 paper “Deep Hitting Is Hitting”
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Altman’s Architecture Claims Need Critical Examination
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Misleading summary. Should be deleted.
— Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) 15 mars 2026
Altman doesn’t say a (known) new architecture is coming; he says he anticipates one will come someday.
PS: I also think we need something radical and new. In fact that’s what I’ve been saying for the last decade.
Excess focus on… https://t.co/qww1bGjPbdMisleading summary. Should be deleted. Altman doesn’t say a (known) new architecture is coming; he says he anticipates one will come someday. PS: I also think we need something radical and new. In fact that’s what I’ve been saying for the last decade. Excess focus on
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Scaling alone insufficient for AGI development
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FACT: The hypothesis that “Scaling is all you need” for AGI has been the costliest mistake in scientific history.
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Scaling Not Enough: Rich Billionaires Failed to Build AGI
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Scaling is not all you need, illustration #3761: two of the two richest guys in the world tried to build AGI with basically unlimited budgets … and failed.
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Is the US Military Afraid of AI? A Detailed Dissection
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more detailed dissection of this baffling argument here, at my newsletter: https://
open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus
/p/is-the-us-military-actually-afraid?utm_source=app-post-stats-page&r=8tdk6&utm_medium=ios
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US Decision-Makers’ Understanding of Generative AI and Intelligence Questioned
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The people making decisions about AI in the US really don’t seem to understand how the generative AI models work or what intelligence is, or how to evaluate it.
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Debunking LLM Consciousness and Supply Risk Claims
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Wild.
— Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) 12 mars 2026
If any of this is true (and most if it isn’t*) it’s true of all LLMs and not just Anthropic’s models.
There is no technical difference between models that would make one more of a supply risk than another.
*mimicking text doesn’t make an AI conscious or anxious etc. but… https://t.co/SzI5FULryYWild. If any of this is true (and most if it isn’t*) it’s true of all LLMs and not just Anthropic’s models. There is no technical difference between models that would make one more of a supply risk than another. *mimicking text doesn’t make an AI conscious or anxious etc. but
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Neurosymbolic AI and LeCun’s New Company: Is There Anything New?
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And it’s also neurosymbolic. Is there anything actually new in LeCun’s new company?
