The race to shove AI into everything is grossly premature, because the tech fundamentally lack reliability. Meanwhile, the chance that we will get straight answers is probably close to zero. (Altman, for his part, doesn’t seem to care.)
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Gary Marcus Discusses AI-Related Scam in Substack Post
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Government Rejects AnthropicAI’s Terms Amidst Political Influence Concerns
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It’s one thing for the government to reject @AnthropicAI
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Debating Plausibility of OpenAI and Anthropic Guardrails and Alignment Techniques
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what’s your source on these assertions? I am not even sure it is coherent. and i would assume both companies use a wide variety of guardrails and alignment techniques. so i am not immediately finding this to be plausible. “The deepest reason OpenAI could say yes while Anthropic
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OpenAI’s “Department of War” Deal Raises Questions After Anthropic Denunciation
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Did the “Department of War” just make the same deal with OpenAI that they denounced Anthropic for wanting a few hours earlier? Am I missing something? Or is this as crazy and capricious as it sounds?
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Pentagon’s AI Autonomous Weapons Raise Ethical Concerns Over Human Oversight
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Translation: The pentagon wants mass surveillance of US citizens (that means you!) and is so caught in the hype they think it is a-ok to put hallucination machines in autonomous weapons without human oversight. Truly scary times.
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LLMs’ Biological Limitations in Therapy Development
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“LLMs are ‘not particularly good’ at the kind of biology necessary to develop therapies” See also my pinned tweet.
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Gary Marcus Shares Dario Amodei’s Historic Statement on AI Ethics
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thanks for sharing the news. i gave you a h/t here: https://
open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus
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