Until tonight, I didn’t think either the US or China would “win” the GenAI race. I thought it would be a tie. Didn’t occur to me the Trump administration could trip the US efforts from behind. But it just did.
@garymarcus
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Commerce decree shuts Anthropic, critic calls overdramatic and counterproductive
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Commerce’s shocking decree this afternoon – which effectively shuts down Anthropic by cutting off access to Mythos 5 and Fable 5 for many of their own employees — seems both wildly overdramatic and also counterproductive for the US AI industry. I concur with @deanwball
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Bad news for Anthropic as Meta cuts token budgets
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breaking: bad news for Anthropic since Meta was said to be a big customer and is cutting its token budgets. more generally lots of companies will make the same decision; next year’s token budgets won’t be the freewheeling affair they were earlier this spring. honeymoon is
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Projected cost of next Fable questions need for data centers
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If we project this out, and the next Fable costs nearly 2x Claude Fable 5 per token, very few people will use it. Which leads me to wonder once again whether we will really need all these data centers.
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The only exponential increase in Mythos models was cost
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So the only real exponential increase with “Mythos class models” was … in … cost. No wonder Anthropic was terrified.
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Skepticism over fuss about 6-point benchmark difference
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obviously different benchmarks will yield different results and maybe saturation is an issue and maybe this and maybe that …. but … all this fuss over … 6 points?
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Critique of exaggerated claims about AI as scientist
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Devastating to a lot of overclaims about AI as scientist.
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GPT-2 fears reminiscent of boy who cried wolf
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they were terrified of GPT-2. definitely into boy who cried wolf territory.
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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