i bet you could get 99% of the performance with less powerful LLMs
@garymarcus
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LLMs Delay Progress: We Need Novel Ideas, Not Incremental Improvements
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they (or more likely more efficient replacements) will play a role. but spending so much money, time, and energy on them has quite likely delayed us. we need new ideas, not slightly better LLMs.
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Neurosymbolic Hybrids: The Complete Hybrid AI Approach
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um, that is the whole point of neurosymbolic hybrids
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Scaling Alone Cannot Reach AGI: Vindication of Longstanding Critique
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It is one thing for everyone from @sama to @ylecun to @elonmusk and the Twitterverse to have attacked me literally for years for saying that scaling alone would not get us to AGI.
— Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) 26 novembre 2025
Another to pretend now that that never happened — now that I have largely been proven correct. pic.twitter.com/n77ChV5lrQIt is one thing for everyone from @sama to @ylecun to @elonmusk and the Twitterverse to have attacked me literally for years for saying that scaling alone would not get us to AGI. Another to pretend now that that never happened — now that I have largely been proven correct.
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LLM Over-Focus Causing AI Field Stagnation
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you could argue the analogy but the general point is correct; an over focus on LLMs has allowed the field to stagnate.
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AI models struggle with basic analog clock reading and factual knowledge
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they can’t even reliably read analog clocks or know who president is. so i don’t actually see the argument?
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Elon Musk Short Position Sam Altman Investment Debate
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dear @elonmusk
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ChatGPT5 Reliability Concerns Amid Political Changes
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Joe Biden is President, JD Vance is a Senator, and ChatGPT5 is full of shit.
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Critic Plans to Short OpenAI Shares Despite Leadership Claims
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dear @sama
, With due respect, and as one of your loudest critics for many years, what you say below re critics wishing they could buy shares is, like a lot of what you say, bullshit. I will in fact be shorting OpenAI, as arranged through @bennpeifert
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OpenAI Short Attempt Raises Trust and Market Questions
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Wow, this morning took a weird turn. I offered to short OpenAI and @martinshrkeli offered to facilitate. Should I trust him? update: @bennpeifert has saved me from having to decide.