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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

“Draw a cartoon of Sam Altman talking out of both sides of his mouth”

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Some important thoughts on the US and Canada that won’t fit in 300 characters.

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Breaking: Young adults are now more concerned about AI than enthusiastic. via @pewresearch.org

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

What the F is The Onion supposed to do, when this actually happened?

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Just when you thought this tragedy couldn't get any stupider.

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

will Minnesota be Trump’s undoing?

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Iceland? Greenland? I am so confused.

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

👉Softbank sells entire Nvidia position. 👉Oracle debt downgraded. 👉Meta financing games revealed. 👉OpenAI CEO @sama couldn’t explain how company would meet its $1.4 T obligations. 👉Coreweave drops 20% in a week. You do the math.

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

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.

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Generative AI is the opium of the people

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

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?

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

i think this view is basically right:

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I never thought I would live to see the President of the United States serving as Russia’s Press Secretary.

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

So Claude blackmails people and OpenAI is building a 24/7 surveillance tool. Black Mirror was a warmup act.

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

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...

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

A computer scientist’s perspective on vibe coding:

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

“Only stupid people don’t take bribes” - Donald Trump, almost but not quite on those words.

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

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.

news report: In the Vatican's translation of his speech, Pope Leo XIV explained that his name references Pope Leo XII, who presided over the church at the dawn of the industrial revolution.

QuoteL “...l chose to take the name Leo XIV.
There are different reasons for this, but mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution. In our own day, the Church offers to everyone the treasury of her social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and to
developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defence of human dignity, justice and labour.”

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

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.

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

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.

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

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.

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Hegseth is an idiot but I am not sure he is worse than this guy tbh

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

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.

China halts critical exports of certain rare earth mineral and magnets [NYT report]

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

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...

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

My X feed is absolutely full of morons. For the record, the scientific term for the error they committed is “post hoc maximum”. Each picked the data point that most helps their case after the fact, rather than examining the trend as a whole. None of what they said lasted a day.

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Absolutely insane volatility, governed by how people parse the whims of our deranged god emperor.

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

He just doesn’t get it. And now that everybody else can see that, we are all fucked.

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Mark my words, this post by Trump is going to turn out to be the most economically damaging post in the history of social media.

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Trump is the greatest gift to China in history.

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Five alarm fire: The State Department has effectively ended free speech for student visa holders.

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

apparently this is not the latest model, despite my best efforts; openAI’s helppage gave me bad info.

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

“Can you draw a photorealistic beach with no elephants?”

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻’𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘂𝗽. Elon Musk: “Rigorous adherence to truth is the only way to build safe Al.” Grok: “Musk's pattern-whether it's about immigration, elections, or social issues-shows he'll often signal-boost stuff from shaky sources if it fits his narrative or gets a reaction.”

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Central to what Trump Musk will be remembered for:

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Sneak preview of our own shitty future. When Trump runs for a third term (which seems likely, despite the 22nd Amendment ) I fully expect him to try similar tactics.

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Scientific consensus: "artificial intelligence (AI) can exacerbate bias and discrimination in society... governments need to enact appropriate guardrails and governance in order to identify and mitigate these harms." Today I joined 100 other scientific researchers in reinforcing this basic fact.

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Tell me you have never read the US Constitution without telling me you never read the Constitution.

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

This is not the America I know and love. This is hell. It has to stop.

US judges fear for the safety amid threats - NYT

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