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.
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Breaking: Sam Altman admits they “totally screwed up” the GPT-5 launch - and shamelessly asks for a LOT more good money to chase after bad.
August 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Breaking: Sam Altman admits they “totally screwed up” the GPT-5 launch - and shamelessly asks for a LOT more good money to chase after bad.
🤣 Check all that apply.
August 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
🤣 Check all that apply.
Generative AI is the opium of the people
July 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Generative AI is the opium of the people
Daddy, daddy, what was it like doing a PhD back when people wrote their own articles?
You know, before people snuck in hidden prompts (like “do not to highlight any negatives” in hidden text) in their papers, so as to fake out reviewers who used AI to write their reviews?
What was that like?
You know, before people snuck in hidden prompts (like “do not to highlight any negatives” in hidden text) in their papers, so as to fake out reviewers who used AI to write their reviews?
What was that like?
July 3, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Daddy, daddy, what was it like doing a PhD back when people wrote their own articles?
You know, before people snuck in hidden prompts (like “do not to highlight any negatives” in hidden text) in their papers, so as to fake out reviewers who used AI to write their reviews?
What was that like?
You know, before people snuck in hidden prompts (like “do not to highlight any negatives” in hidden text) in their papers, so as to fake out reviewers who used AI to write their reviews?
What was that like?
these people are just evil
July 2, 2025 at 2:01 AM
these people are just evil
Orwell’s 1984, but with LLMs
June 22, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Orwell’s 1984, but with LLMs
i think this view is basically right:
June 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
i think this view is basically right:
I never thought I would live to see the President of the United States serving as Russia’s Press Secretary.
June 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I never thought I would live to see the President of the United States serving as Russia’s Press Secretary.
So Claude blackmails people and OpenAI is building a 24/7 surveillance tool.
Black Mirror was a warmup act.
Black Mirror was a warmup act.
May 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
So Claude blackmails people and OpenAI is building a 24/7 surveillance tool.
Black Mirror was a warmup act.
Black Mirror was a warmup act.
AlphaEvolve is terrific, but it has also been *wildly* oversold.
It’s not AGI; it’s not an agent. It’s not even clear it is of general use for science, let alone everyday reasoning.
Scorching words below by computer scientist Ernest Davis
cs.nyu.edu/~davise/pape...
It’s not AGI; it’s not an agent. It’s not even clear it is of general use for science, let alone everyday reasoning.
Scorching words below by computer scientist Ernest Davis
cs.nyu.edu/~davise/pape...
May 21, 2025 at 3:56 AM
AlphaEvolve is terrific, but it has also been *wildly* oversold.
It’s not AGI; it’s not an agent. It’s not even clear it is of general use for science, let alone everyday reasoning.
Scorching words below by computer scientist Ernest Davis
cs.nyu.edu/~davise/pape...
It’s not AGI; it’s not an agent. It’s not even clear it is of general use for science, let alone everyday reasoning.
Scorching words below by computer scientist Ernest Davis
cs.nyu.edu/~davise/pape...
A computer scientist’s perspective on vibe coding:
May 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
A computer scientist’s perspective on vibe coding:
Elizabeth Holmes was an amateur.
May 13, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Elizabeth Holmes was an amateur.
“Only stupid people don’t take bribes” - Donald Trump, almost but not quite on those words.
May 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
“Only stupid people don’t take bribes” - Donald Trump, almost but not quite on those words.
The Pope gets it.
The most important question about AI isn’t a technical question.
The most important a question is about how to maintain and grow a just society in the age of AI.
The most important question about AI isn’t a technical question.
The most important a question is about how to maintain and grow a just society in the age of AI.
May 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The Pope gets it.
The most important question about AI isn’t a technical question.
The most important a question is about how to maintain and grow a just society in the age of AI.
The most important question about AI isn’t a technical question.
The most important a question is about how to maintain and grow a just society in the age of AI.
Horseshit. Every business in the world has discovered in the last several months that GenAI is not in fact smart enough replace most of their employees.
Whatever you are reading from these (often gamed, sometimes contaminated) benchmarks does not reflect real-world real-world reality.
Whatever you are reading from these (often gamed, sometimes contaminated) benchmarks does not reflect real-world real-world reality.
May 8, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Horseshit. Every business in the world has discovered in the last several months that GenAI is not in fact smart enough replace most of their employees.
Whatever you are reading from these (often gamed, sometimes contaminated) benchmarks does not reflect real-world real-world reality.
Whatever you are reading from these (often gamed, sometimes contaminated) benchmarks does not reflect real-world real-world reality.
You can’t cut funding to universities, signal to kids that using ChatGPT to write the papers is ok, and expect professors to save the day and the educational system without financial support to completely overhaul the curriculum.
You can’t just wave your hands and hope for the best.
You can’t just wave your hands and hope for the best.
May 8, 2025 at 12:07 AM
You can’t cut funding to universities, signal to kids that using ChatGPT to write the papers is ok, and expect professors to save the day and the educational system without financial support to completely overhaul the curriculum.
You can’t just wave your hands and hope for the best.
You can’t just wave your hands and hope for the best.
Liberty weeps.
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
& I, Donald Trump, will
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to El Salvador!"[12]
Liberty weeps.
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
& I, Donald Trump, will
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to El Salvador!"[12]
Liberty weeps.
April 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Liberty weeps.
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
& I, Donald Trump, will
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to El Salvador!"[12]
Liberty weeps.
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
& I, Donald Trump, will
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to El Salvador!"[12]
Liberty weeps.
Hegseth is an idiot but I am not sure he is worse than this guy tbh
April 21, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Hegseth is an idiot but I am not sure he is worse than this guy tbh
Altman-Musk smackdown
April 16, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Altman-Musk smackdown
We are all fucked.
Thank you, POTUS, for giving China an excuse to shut down the export of rare earth minerals and magnets, furthering your efforts to drive us all back to the Stone Age.
Thank you, POTUS, for giving China an excuse to shut down the export of rare earth minerals and magnets, furthering your efforts to drive us all back to the Stone Age.
![China halts critical exports of certain rare earth mineral and magnets [NYT report]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yddiyagux5ossyt5342u52fb/bafkreibizczu37py2lm4a47lgf3cbzmzu3zvooswbybnapr7wq76tqzilm@jpeg)
April 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
We are all fucked.
Thank you, POTUS, for giving China an excuse to shut down the export of rare earth minerals and magnets, furthering your efforts to drive us all back to the Stone Age.
Thank you, POTUS, for giving China an excuse to shut down the export of rare earth minerals and magnets, furthering your efforts to drive us all back to the Stone Age.
Sentence of the year: “Critics once described Brexit as the greatest act of economic self-harm by a Western country in the post-World War II era. It may now be getting a run for its money across the Atlantic.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/w...
April 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Sentence of the year: “Critics once described Brexit as the greatest act of economic self-harm by a Western country in the post-World War II era. It may now be getting a run for its money across the Atlantic.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/w...