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The whole thing was a scam
The fix was in, and Dario never had a chance.
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Doug Lenat has died
AI has lost a giant
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ChatGPT went berserk
Not a joke
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Things are about to get worse for generative AI
A full of spectrum of infringment
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LaMDA is not sentient
No, LaMDA is not sentient. Not even slightly.
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Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short
Also: another paper that seals the deal
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The OpenAI board was right
Even on little things, Sam is not consistently candid.
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GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it
A new release botched … and a breaking research new paper that spells trouble
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Did GoogleAI just snooker one of Silicon Valley’s sharpest minds?
Clever Hans and how corporate AI plays the media, in 2022
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Hot take: GPT 4.5 is a nothing burger
Pure scaling in shambles
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Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well
A sampling of recent news
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Sam Altman's pants are on fire
Even for him, his latest whopper is something
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Bill to block OpenAI's for-profit conversion gets mysteriously gutted
I hope the media will look into this
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LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare
Things are about to get wild
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OpenAI probably can't make ends meet. That's where you come in
If you thought the 2008 bank bailout was bad, wait til you see the 2026 AI bailout
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Two Kinds of Techno-Optimism
A few things Marc Andreessen forgot to mention
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America, and probably the world, stands on a precipice
Call you Congresspeople, right now.
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LLMs don't do formal reasoning
Important new study from Apple
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LLMs have reached a point of diminishing returns
Science, sociology, and the likely financial collapse of the Generative AI bubble
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The "AI 2027" Scenario: How realistic is it?
Everyone’s been talking about it. JD Vance read it. What does it actually tell us?
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AGI is not imminent, and LLMs are not the royal road to getting there
First slowly, and then all at once, dreams of LLMs bringing us to the cusp of AGI have fallen apart.
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A trillion dollars (potentially) wasted on gen-AI
The machine learning community is finally waking up to the madness, but the detour of the last few years has been costly.
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About That OpenAI "Breakthrough"
Will OpenAI’s Q* change the world?
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How New Are Yann LeCun's “New” Ideas?
spoiler alert: not very