Gary Marcus considers it appropriate that governments are stepping up on artificial intelligence, but finds some of the resulting signals deeply worrisome.
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Face It, Self-Driving Cars Still Haven’t Earned Their Stripes
Edge cases remain a serious, unsolved problem, $100 billion later.
What If Generative AI Turned Out to be a Dud?
Some possible economic and geopolitical implications.
Two Models of AI Oversight — and How Things Could Go Deeply Wrong
It's good that governments are stepping up, but some of the signals are deeply worrisome.
Scientists, Governments, and Corporations Urgently Need to Work Together to Mitigate AI Risk
"It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things"—but we must try.
Hoping for the Best as AI Evolves
Gary Marcus on the systems that "pose a real and imminent threat to the fabric of society."
The Sparks of AGI? Or the End of Science?
Marching into the future with an obstructed view.
GPT-4’s Successes, and GPT-4’s Failures
How GPT-4 fits into the larger tapestry of the quest for artificial general intelligence.
Why doing psychology on large language models is harder than you might think.
And how did some prominent journalists utterly miss this initially?
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