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Marcus on AI
garymarcus.substack.com > p > the-case-for-boycotting-generative

The Case for Boycotting Generative AI

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1148+ words) It has become clear by now that the frontier labs are knowingly and by their own admission doing something irreversible and incredibly dangerous without public consent. They are already causing harm, and things could conceivably get much worse. They have…...

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garymarcus.substack.com > p > openais-egregious-pattern-of-misconduct

OpenAI’s Egregious Pattern of Misconduct

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (775+ words) The story that broke this morning—still waiting for OpenAI’s full response—blew my mind. And yet also left me unsurprised. Here are nine things I learned just in the last week: The widely discussed and worrisome Hugging Face incident…...

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garymarcus.substack.com > p > sad-to-see-jensen-huang-claim-that

Sad to see Jensen Huang claim that AGI has arrived, with no evidence and no definitions

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (239+ words) A couple hours ago Jensen Huang declared that the race to AGI is over. Unfortunately, Huang gave no evidence and no definitions, which feels to me like an effort at a takeover of a scientific question by corporate fiat. I…...

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garymarcus.substack.com > p > breaking-us-young-adults-are-now

Breaking: U.S. young adults are now more concerned about AI than enthusiastic

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (354+ words) Marcus on AI | Substack Breaking: U.S. young adults are now more concerned about AI than enthusiastic Brief update to last’s week’s note re: the growing backlash. You can read more here. This may go down in history as one of the…...