Gary Marcus
@garymarcus.bsky.social
AI and cognitive science, Founder and CEO (Geometric Intelligence, acquired by Uber). 8 books including Guitar Zero, Rebooting AI and Taming Silicon Valley.
Newsletter (50k subscribers): garymarcus.substack.com
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Gary Marcus
@garymarcus.bsky.social
· Jun 9
AI Bait & Switch:
bait: we’re gonna make an AI that can solve any problem experts could solve. it’s gonna transform the whole world.
switch: what we have actually made is fun and amazing, but rarely reliable and often makes mistakes – but ordinary people makes mistakes, too. So … AGI solved!
bait: we’re gonna make an AI that can solve any problem experts could solve. it’s gonna transform the whole world.
switch: what we have actually made is fun and amazing, but rarely reliable and often makes mistakes – but ordinary people makes mistakes, too. So … AGI solved!
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Whether you’re an AI skeptic, an AI evangelist, or just someone who wants to know what’s happening on the cutting edge of tech, you should be reading @garymarcus.bsky.social.
Vibe coding? It’s dying. I am shocked. SHOCKED, I tell you.
garymarcus.substack.com/p/is-vibe-co...
Vibe coding? It’s dying. I am shocked. SHOCKED, I tell you.
garymarcus.substack.com/p/is-vibe-co...
Is vibe coding dying?
Amateurs might not be replacing teams of coders, after all
garymarcus.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Whether you’re an AI skeptic, an AI evangelist, or just someone who wants to know what’s happening on the cutting edge of tech, you should be reading @garymarcus.bsky.social.
Vibe coding? It’s dying. I am shocked. SHOCKED, I tell you.
garymarcus.substack.com/p/is-vibe-co...
Vibe coding? It’s dying. I am shocked. SHOCKED, I tell you.
garymarcus.substack.com/p/is-vibe-co...
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"Right now, it feels as if Big Tech is throwing general-purpose A.I. spaghetti at the wall and hoping that nothing truly terrible sticks."
@garymarcus.bsky.social, the author of "Taming Silicon Valley," writes on the race toward A.G.I. for @nytimes.com:
@garymarcus.bsky.social, the author of "Taming Silicon Valley," writes on the race toward A.G.I. for @nytimes.com:
Opinion | Chatbots Are a Waste of A.I.’s Real Potential
Generative A.I. can do many things human beings can do. But that misses the point about how A.I. can truly benefit us.
nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
"Right now, it feels as if Big Tech is throwing general-purpose A.I. spaghetti at the wall and hoping that nothing truly terrible sticks."
@garymarcus.bsky.social, the author of "Taming Silicon Valley," writes on the race toward A.G.I. for @nytimes.com:
@garymarcus.bsky.social, the author of "Taming Silicon Valley," writes on the race toward A.G.I. for @nytimes.com:
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Just watched @garymarcus.bsky.social give a blistering talk online for 75th Anniversary of the Turing Test event today. I so so wish I could get my students (and HE management) to watch this. AI realism is desperately needed. I have students saying they like AI because it can ‘think’ NO NO NO NO NO
October 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Just watched @garymarcus.bsky.social give a blistering talk online for 75th Anniversary of the Turing Test event today. I so so wish I could get my students (and HE management) to watch this. AI realism is desperately needed. I have students saying they like AI because it can ‘think’ NO NO NO NO NO
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Is AI really on an exponential curve, or is that hype?
@garymarcus.bsky.social argues GPT-5 proves the curve has flattened. Scaling isn’t delivering exponential gains anymore and the field is shifting to smaller or hybrid models.
Are we past exponential AI, or just in a slowdown? #academisky #ai
@garymarcus.bsky.social argues GPT-5 proves the curve has flattened. Scaling isn’t delivering exponential gains anymore and the field is shifting to smaller or hybrid models.
Are we past exponential AI, or just in a slowdown? #academisky #ai
October 6, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Is AI really on an exponential curve, or is that hype?
@garymarcus.bsky.social argues GPT-5 proves the curve has flattened. Scaling isn’t delivering exponential gains anymore and the field is shifting to smaller or hybrid models.
Are we past exponential AI, or just in a slowdown? #academisky #ai
@garymarcus.bsky.social argues GPT-5 proves the curve has flattened. Scaling isn’t delivering exponential gains anymore and the field is shifting to smaller or hybrid models.
Are we past exponential AI, or just in a slowdown? #academisky #ai
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Turing Award laureate Rich Sutton now critiques pure LLMs—echoing @garymarcus.bsky.social . Time to move beyond science fiction and refocus on scientific rigour. #AI #LLM #Neurosymbolic #RichSutton #GaryMarcus
garymarcus.substack.com/p/game-over-...
garymarcus.substack.com/p/game-over-...
Game over for pure LLMs. Even Turing Award Winner Rich Sutton has gotten off the bus.
One by one, all the big names have turned around. What should we do next?
garymarcus.substack.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Turing Award laureate Rich Sutton now critiques pure LLMs—echoing @garymarcus.bsky.social . Time to move beyond science fiction and refocus on scientific rigour. #AI #LLM #Neurosymbolic #RichSutton #GaryMarcus
garymarcus.substack.com/p/game-over-...
garymarcus.substack.com/p/game-over-...
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‘Practically the only people still pretending scaling LLMs is “all you need” are grifters.’ garymarcus.substack.com/p/game-over-... by @garymarcus.bsky.social
Game over for pure LLMs. Even Turing Award Winner Rich Sutton has gotten off the bus.
One by one, all the big names have turned around. What should we do next?
garymarcus.substack.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
‘Practically the only people still pretending scaling LLMs is “all you need” are grifters.’ garymarcus.substack.com/p/game-over-... by @garymarcus.bsky.social
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The reason why LLMs fail to play a game of chess, even though they can cite the rules from their training data, is an awesome example of what's stopping autonomous AI agents from being reliable.
Great discussion between @garrykasparov.bsky.social ♟️ and @garymarcus.bsky.social 🧠 on limits of GenAI.
Great discussion between @garrykasparov.bsky.social ♟️ and @garymarcus.bsky.social 🧠 on limits of GenAI.
September 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The reason why LLMs fail to play a game of chess, even though they can cite the rules from their training data, is an awesome example of what's stopping autonomous AI agents from being reliable.
Great discussion between @garrykasparov.bsky.social ♟️ and @garymarcus.bsky.social 🧠 on limits of GenAI.
Great discussion between @garrykasparov.bsky.social ♟️ and @garymarcus.bsky.social 🧠 on limits of GenAI.
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"The chances of #AGI’s arrival by 2027 now seem remote. The government has let #AI companies lead a charmed life, with almost zero #regulation. It now ought to enact legislation that addresses costs and harms unfairly offloaded onto the public." ~ @garymarcus.bsky.social
Opinion | The Fever Dream of Imminent Superintelligence Is Finally Breaking
Building bigger A.I. isn’t leading to better A.I.
www.nytimes.com
September 17, 2025 at 10:30 PM
"The chances of #AGI’s arrival by 2027 now seem remote. The government has let #AI companies lead a charmed life, with almost zero #regulation. It now ought to enact legislation that addresses costs and harms unfairly offloaded onto the public." ~ @garymarcus.bsky.social
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“Did people promising to build potential future greenhouses for tulip-growers in 1636 ever have it so good?” garymarcus.substack.com/p/peak-bubbl... by @garymarcus.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
“Did people promising to build potential future greenhouses for tulip-growers in 1636 ever have it so good?” garymarcus.substack.com/p/peak-bubbl... by @garymarcus.bsky.social
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"Power has really gone to the tech companies, who have enormous influence over the government. And unless people get out of their apathy, that’s ... certainly where the U.S. is likely to stay."
@garymarcus.bsky.social discussed what we need to do to prevent AI tools from undermining democracy:
@garymarcus.bsky.social discussed what we need to do to prevent AI tools from undermining democracy:
AI and the Rise of Techno-Fascism in the United States
Will powerful new tools be used to promote democracy or undermine it?
www.theatlantic.com
September 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
"Power has really gone to the tech companies, who have enormous influence over the government. And unless people get out of their apathy, that’s ... certainly where the U.S. is likely to stay."
@garymarcus.bsky.social discussed what we need to do to prevent AI tools from undermining democracy:
@garymarcus.bsky.social discussed what we need to do to prevent AI tools from undermining democracy:
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Gary Kasparov (legendary Chess Player) & @garymarcus.bsky.social are having a sobering conversation about AI, LLMs and Deepblue in this @theatlantic.com piece.
Many people believe generative or any AI show signs of "intelligence", but Marcus attributes it to brute forcing with pattern recognition.
Many people believe generative or any AI show signs of "intelligence", but Marcus attributes it to brute forcing with pattern recognition.
AI and the Rise of Techno-Fascism in the United States
Will powerful new tools be used to promote democracy or undermine it?
www.theatlantic.com
September 8, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Gary Kasparov (legendary Chess Player) & @garymarcus.bsky.social are having a sobering conversation about AI, LLMs and Deepblue in this @theatlantic.com piece.
Many people believe generative or any AI show signs of "intelligence", but Marcus attributes it to brute forcing with pattern recognition.
Many people believe generative or any AI show signs of "intelligence", but Marcus attributes it to brute forcing with pattern recognition.
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Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results:
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial
: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex
www.theregister.com
September 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results:
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
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Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
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When tech is built to replace and not empower people, the future of work & democracy is at risk.
@garymarcus.bsky.social sounds the alarm about unchecked AI and discusses how we can reclaim tech for the public good. #GoodLife https://bit.ly/4nBRcPh
@garymarcus.bsky.social sounds the alarm about unchecked AI and discusses how we can reclaim tech for the public good. #GoodLife https://bit.ly/4nBRcPh
AI and the Rise of Techno-Fascism in the United States
Will powerful new tools be used to promote democracy or undermine it?
www.theatlantic.com
September 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
When tech is built to replace and not empower people, the future of work & democracy is at risk.
@garymarcus.bsky.social sounds the alarm about unchecked AI and discusses how we can reclaim tech for the public good. #GoodLife https://bit.ly/4nBRcPh
@garymarcus.bsky.social sounds the alarm about unchecked AI and discusses how we can reclaim tech for the public good. #GoodLife https://bit.ly/4nBRcPh
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‘The current strategy of merely making A.I. bigger is deeply flawed — scientifically, economically and politically.’ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/o... by @garymarcus.bsky.social
Opinion | The Fever Dream of Imminent ‘Superintelligence’ Is Finally Breaking
www.nytimes.com
September 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
‘The current strategy of merely making A.I. bigger is deeply flawed — scientifically, economically and politically.’ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/o... by @garymarcus.bsky.social
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"The government has let A.I. companies lead a charmed life with almost zero regulation. It now ought to enact legislation that addresses costs and harms unfairly offloaded onto the public," argues @garymarcus.bsky.social.
Opinion | How to Rethink A.I.
www.nytimes.com
September 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
"The government has let A.I. companies lead a charmed life with almost zero regulation. It now ought to enact legislation that addresses costs and harms unfairly offloaded onto the public," argues @garymarcus.bsky.social.
In the morning @nytimes: Where I think AI has gone wrong — and what we should do about it.
September 3, 2025 at 4:58 AM
In the morning @nytimes: Where I think AI has gone wrong — and what we should do about it.
Anybody remember AI a month ago?
• Everybody in the Bay Area seemed to think that AGI was imminent
• Expectations for GPT-5 were through the roof
• Zuckerberg was spending bajillions of dollars on Alexandr Wang, staff and GPUs, and seemed to have a coherent plan
• Everybody in the Bay Area seemed to think that AGI was imminent
• Expectations for GPT-5 were through the roof
• Zuckerberg was spending bajillions of dollars on Alexandr Wang, staff and GPUs, and seemed to have a coherent plan
August 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Anybody remember AI a month ago?
• Everybody in the Bay Area seemed to think that AGI was imminent
• Expectations for GPT-5 were through the roof
• Zuckerberg was spending bajillions of dollars on Alexandr Wang, staff and GPUs, and seemed to have a coherent plan
• Everybody in the Bay Area seemed to think that AGI was imminent
• Expectations for GPT-5 were through the roof
• Zuckerberg was spending bajillions of dollars on Alexandr Wang, staff and GPUs, and seemed to have a coherent plan
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What scaling does and doesn’t buy you: peeling back the hype surrounding Google‘s trendy Nano Banana
"But it’s all still just an extended form of mimicry, not something deeper, as the persistent failures with parts and wholes keep showing us." ~ @garymarcus.bsky.social
garymarcus.substack....
#AI
"But it’s all still just an extended form of mimicry, not something deeper, as the persistent failures with parts and wholes keep showing us." ~ @garymarcus.bsky.social
garymarcus.substack....
#AI
What scaling does and doesn’t buy you: peeling back the hype surrounding Google‘s trendy Nano Banana
Some things never change
garymarcus.substack.com
August 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
What scaling does and doesn’t buy you: peeling back the hype surrounding Google‘s trendy Nano Banana
"But it’s all still just an extended form of mimicry, not something deeper, as the persistent failures with parts and wholes keep showing us." ~ @garymarcus.bsky.social
garymarcus.substack....
#AI
"But it’s all still just an extended form of mimicry, not something deeper, as the persistent failures with parts and wholes keep showing us." ~ @garymarcus.bsky.social
garymarcus.substack....
#AI
not an April Fool’s joke, not the
Onion
Onion
"In an exclusive statement to the New York Post, first lady Melania Trump has revealed her next official project: leading the Presidential Artificial Intelligence Challenge to inspire children and teachers to embrace AI technology and help accelerate innovation in the field."
Exclusive | First lady Melania Trump will head effort to teach next generation about AI
First lady Melania Trump will lead the Presidential Artificial Intelligence Challenge to inspire children and teachers to embrace AI technology and help accelerate innovation in the field.
nypost.com
August 27, 2025 at 1:51 AM
not an April Fool’s joke, not the
Onion
Onion
possibly among the most dangerous PACs in history.
A super PAC backed by Silicon Valley’s most powerful investors and executives was created to support “pro-AI” candidates in the 2026 midterms.
The group will also oppose any candidates perceived as slowing down AI development.
The group will also oppose any candidates perceived as slowing down AI development.
Super PAC aims to drown out AI critics in midterms, with $100M and counting
Leading the Future, backed by tech moguls, launched this month to boost midterm candidates who favor few regulations on the AI industry.
wapo.st
August 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
possibly among the most dangerous PACs in history.
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“This entire market has been based on people not understanding that these machines don’t actually work like you, imagining that scaling was going to solve all of this, because they don’t really understand the problem. I mean, it’s almost tragic.” - @garymarcus.bsky.social fortune.com/2025/08/24/i...
'It's almost tragic': Bubble or not, the AI backlash is validating one critic's warnings
Gary Marcus told Fortune that AI valuations remind him of Wile E Coyote. "We are off the cliff."
fortune.com
August 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
“This entire market has been based on people not understanding that these machines don’t actually work like you, imagining that scaling was going to solve all of this, because they don’t really understand the problem. I mean, it’s almost tragic.” - @garymarcus.bsky.social fortune.com/2025/08/24/i...
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Sam Altman Places Gun To Head After New GPT Claims Dogs Are Crustaceans For 60th Time theonion.com/sam-alt...
August 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Sam Altman Places Gun To Head After New GPT Claims Dogs Are Crustaceans For 60th Time theonion.com/sam-alt...
that would fuck with their narrative
Normalize journalists interviewing anybody other than AI industry boosters and AI safety doomers.
Make @garymarcus.bsky.social a mandatory journo pit stop before publication.
Make @garymarcus.bsky.social a mandatory journo pit stop before publication.
August 22, 2025 at 9:24 AM
that would fuck with their narrative