Notices by Gary Marcus (garymarcus@sigmoid.social)

When I said in 2022 that LLMs would hit a wall and that scaling laws would not last forever, everyone laughed.

Now even Time Magazine sees that the moment of diminishing returns has likely arrived.

Can a crash in GenAI valuations be far away?

https://time.com/7178328/is-ai-progress-slowing-down/

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Among the most disturbing things I have ever read.

The petty whims of a single tech oligarch could undermine the lives of hundreds of millions of people.

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I have a PhD in Brain&cogsci, from MIT.

𝗜𝗻 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟰 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀, 𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝟰 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱/𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽:

- 𝗠𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘁: swaying, missing and and stumbling in front of the garbage truck
- 𝗟𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆: inappropriate musical pause/swaying, similar to longer incident a few weeks ago
- 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Liz Cheney & rifles
- 𝗔𝗽𝗵𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗮: description of Musk as “good at computer”

Things are degenerating, fast.

𝙒𝙝𝙮 𝙞𝙨𝙣’𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙖 𝙧𝙚𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣?

When Lecun is right, he’s right:

Elon Musk has basically become a mob boss.

This breaking story is really something, even for Mr Lottery:

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-america-pac-blitz-canvassing-michigan-uhaul/