Gary Marcus

Plot the same improvements on a linear y-axis and you get steady incremental gains, impressive but not the hockey stick that triggered the panic. [...] We don't have evidence that Mythos is actually an important step towards broad superintelligence.

The White House and people at the top of the Pentagon seem to treat it as magic, whereas those who are actually building it realize that it hallucinates, it makes mistakes, stupid errors of reasoning. And if you put that into production, into practic...

create bullshit in the sense that they [...] mimic the general thing...they fake their way through everything

And I think that even more so because we’ve seen things like some of the most recent models maybe can help people make biological weapons.

Algorithmic transparency. When a driverless car has an accident, or a consumer’s loan application has been denied, we should be able to ask what’s gone wrong. The big trouble with the black box algorithms that are currently in vogue is that [nobody] ...

In many ways, I think it’s a threat to democracy. That’s not a threat to humanity.

My opinion is that the moratorium that we should focus on is actually deployment until we have good safety cases. I don't know that we need to pause that particular project, but I do think it's emphasis on focusing more on AI safety, on trustworthy, ...

I think the UN, UNESCO, places like that have been thinking about this for a long time, [...]

Yes, I agree [...] we need a new liability framework. [...] AI systems can produce harm at large scale [...]. Developing a framework for making companies responsible for harms [...] indirectly [...].

I have talked about having something like a CERN [European Organization for Nuclear Research] for AI, which might focus on AI safety. In some industries, we know how to make reliable [products], usually only in narrow domains. One example is bridges:...

Ultimately, we may need something like cern Global, international and neutral, but focused on AI safety rather than high energy physics.

OpenAI has also said, and I agree, “it’s important that efforts like ours submit to independent audits before releasing new systems”, but to my knowledge they have not yet submitted to such audits. They have also said “at some point, it may be import...