All articles from Gary Marcus
AI Agents have, so far, mostly been a dud
If chatbots answer your queries, AI agents are supposed to do things on your behalf, to actively take care of your life and business. They might shop for you, book travel, organize your calendar, summarize news for you in custom ways, keep track of your finances, maintain databases and even whole so
What to Expect When You’re Expecting … GPT-5
@WickerViper23/Stable DiffusionFor years we have been hearing, endlessly, about how GPT-5 was going to land imminently, and those predictions turned out to be wrong so often that a year ago I wrote a post about it, called GPT-5...now arriving Gate 8, Gate 9, Gate 10, not to mention a couple of April
GPT-5 hot take
OpenAI just announced GPT-5. I stand by my predictions from a couple weeks ago; none of the problems I said would not be solved appear to have been solved.. Here's my hot take:• Took almost 3 years, many billions of dollars (over a half-trillion fieldwide).• Good progress on many fronts.• But still
Slopocalypse Now
Derivative AI art is, by, definition. AI slop.I have been writing here about AI-induced enshittification (extending a term originally due to Cory Doctorow) regularly for the last couple years, using that specific term for the first time almost exactly two years ago to the day:Needless to say, David