1+ hour, 41+ min ago  (166+ words) Marcus on AI | Substack The illusion of Generative AI, the insanity of massive bets on hyperscaling, and the case for world models and neurosymbolic AI Three excellent new interviews Fabulous deep dive with Brian Greene / The World Science Festival: Excellent…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (330+ words) Remember my essay back in August with Nathan Hamiel LLM + Coding Agents = Security Nightmare? We were not wrong. A new study from researchers from Stanford, MIT CSAIL, Carnegie Mellon, ITU Copenhagen, and NVIDIA and Elloe AI Labs, examining 847 autonomous agent…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (578+ words) Claude Code, an impressive and possibly game-changing "coding agent" for programmers to write code faster is the single biggest advance in AI since the LLM. And the thing is, Claude Code is NOT a pure LLM. And it's not pure deep learning....

3+ mon, 6+ day ago  (243+ words) As you may know, I have been harping on reasoning as a core challenge for deep learning for well over a decade, at least since a December 2012 New Yorker article: By now many, many others have pounded on the same…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (206+ words) Honored to be a part of this, along with Yuval Noah Hariri, Melanie Mitchell, Helen Toner, Carl Benedikt Frey, Ajeya Cotra and co-founders of Perplexity and Cohere: Naturally, I help anchor the skeptics corner (though I am hardly alone): And…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago  (439+ words) For the last few years, I have been warning you that the mania for LLMs would break eventually. The technical foundation was, as I argued all the way back to the early days of GPT-2, never strong enough to support…...

11+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1823+ words) Everybody's talking about a scary and vivid manifesto called AI 2027; even Vice President Vance claims to have read it. Aa a work of fiction, it's very effective. Although it's written like a thriller, it is crafted to look like science,…...