I agree with Sam here. one thing AI has for certain made possible is make the rich richer and widen the wealth gap all by exploiting the marginalised and disfranchised

one of the biggest names in AI. disgracefully left out of the top 100 list. drops a book on my birthday. huge. interesting choice of date all around 👀👀👀👀👀👀

Celebrating your birthday in style, 🍓🍓🍓.

Gary Marcus Imagine if they invested $1 billion in natural (i.e., human) intelligence. Seriously. With that kind of research funding, I think that we could understand human intelligence and how to enhance it. Imagine the possibilities.

You wanna know why i have lost so much respect for X? Because I know that the vast majority of people still on X will think (or pretend to think) that this is perfectly ok. It’s not ok.

Does anyone still believe this?

12 hours later?

Future generations will wonder why it took so long to get around to doing this — and why pure hyperscaling, ultimately inadequate, was taken so seriously, to the preclusion of so much else that was important.

If any VCs want to actually get this right, reach out.

great profile of Aacia (Aacia) by @choosegoodkarma. looking forward to joining her 9/15 X space!

Perhaps the most important scientific advance of the year:

Crowd: Gary, you are hater Gary: This new result is INCREDIBLE! Crowd: scrolls past, can’t be bothered 🙄

🙌 Taming Silicon Valley is a Must-Read Next Big Idea Club!

Please take a few minutes to read this essay from Anne Applebaum, author of Autocracy. This election is between democracy and autocracy. The challenge is that many of the richest and most powerful people in America have joined Team Autocracy, including leaders of Big Tech. 1/2

NVIDIA: Rough week, rough 3 months (but great year) at GenAI’s flagship stock. Might come back up to its high, might not. Profits for its AI customers remain mostly promissory.

Incredible graph via Auren Hoffman. And now think about what chatbots will do to teenagers and the fabric of society.

And now this liar is running around claiming to be the victim - but not giving back the money he got … from Russia. 🙄

This new business model could work for Magic 8 Balls, too!