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The mirage of visual understanding in current frontier models
When a model achieves a “top rank on a standard chest X-ray question-answering benchmark without access to any images” you know something is deeply…
 • Gary Marcus
War and AI, the death of Sora, and 3 ways you can catch me live today
With apologies for the short notice, a few quick announcements:
 • Gary Marcus
F Cancer
The real test of AI
 • Gary Marcus
BREAKING: Sam Altman concedes that we need major breakthroughs beyond mere scaling to get to AGI
It’s past time to look for new architectures
 • Gary Marcus
BREAKING: Expensive new evidence that scaling is not all you need
Two more colossally expensive experiments have failed
 • Gary Marcus
Is the US military actually afraid of Claude? A new theory of why Anthropic was labeled a supply chain risk.
Unpacking a perplexing argument from the Pentagon
 • Gary Marcus
“A spate of outages, including incidents tied to the use of AI coding tools”, right on schedule
Some with “high blast radius”
 • Gary Marcus
Anthropic sues US government, with good reason
As I wrote yesterday, Dario Amodei is no saint, but I fully support his company’s new lawsuit against the US government.
 • Gary Marcus
There are no heroes in commercial AI
When it comes down to it, Dario Amodei isn’t all that much different from Sam Altman
 • Gary Marcus
BREAKING: Sam Altman’s greed and dishonesty are finally catching up to him
It’s about time
 • Gary Marcus
Don’t trust Generative AI to do your taxes — and don’t trust it with people’s lives
“The problem comes down to how A.I. chatbots are fundamentally designed”
 • Gary Marcus
Breaking: “sycophantic AI distorts belief, manufacturing certainty where there should be doubt”
LLMs are an epistemic nightmare
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