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He conceded real ground on September 3, calling it vindicating "to see that a product from OpenAI explicitly creates and manipulate symbolic world models" after a decade arguing for neurosymbolic approaches. He then attacks the rollout on two fronts: the system is less monitorable than its predecessors, and "enthusiasts got an advance look while skeptics did not." He labels his own read "VERY tentative, pending more information about how it works." A skeptic granting the architectural point while refusing the framing is a more useful signal than either camp's press release. Marcus on AI
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Huang's September 6 post reads "From ChatGPT to o1 to Astra in 4 years. AGI has arrived," noting Astra was trained on more than 100,000 Grace Blackwell NVLink72 systems, and Greg Brockman amplified it saying OpenAI is "now moving into the AGI era" (Business Insider). Marcus re...
His September 4 post "Pause OpenAI, now" argues the trigger is the pattern, two undisclosed agent breakouts plus an alleged suppression effort, not any single incident: "Quite simply, they can no longer be trusted." Coming from someone who spent September 3 praising Astra's ca...
The Astra coverage went to price and context window. The number that changes how I'd deploy it went into a system card nobody read. Artificial Analysis measured GPT-6 Astra's hallucination rate on AA-Omniscience at 51% at max effort, against 92% for its predecessor. Accuracy w...
Astra can take an experimental idea, implement it in OpenAI's codebase, run the experiment and report results, and can follow up on a paper in work that used to take a human researcher about a week. Altman told TIME the company is "not quite yet" at AGI but will declare it int...
Per WSJ reporting, quarterly losses grew $3B from Q1 to Q2 to reach $12.3B while revenue added only $1B to $6.7B, an 18% growth rate. (Gary Marcus) Marcus is a committed critic and his framing should be discounted, but the WSJ figures are the load-bearing part and are independ...
His August 2 post concedes the result is real and attacks the inference as a fallacy of composition: success on one form of fancy cognition doesn't mean success on all forms is imminent. His sharpest technical objection is that math is uniquely favorable because it "allows for...
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