2026-02-12
Totally agree with @zhitzig in NYT today: funding chat models through ads creates powerful incentives to exploit very private user data and manipulate users. V bad news for users, OpenAI, and AI services more broadly (cf Facebook, the web more broadly) https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
An OpenAI researcher who helped shape how models were built and priced says she quit after two years due to “deep reservations” about ads and OpenAI's strategy
This week, OpenAI started testing ads on ChatGPT. I also resigned from the company after spending two years …
2026-02-11
Totally agree with @zhitzig in NYT today: funding chat models through ads creates powerful incentives to exploit very private user data and manipulate users. V bad news for users, OpenAI, and AI services more broadly (cf Facebook, the web more broadly) https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
An OpenAI researcher who helped shape how models were built and priced says she quit after two years due to “deep reservations” about ads and OpenAI's strategy
This week, OpenAI started testing ads on ChatGPT. I also resigned from the company after spending two years …
2024-10-13
This looks like great work and the name change stuff definitely suggests some kind of overfitting or contamination. But I wish people would stop speculating about human performance without just running human baselines!
Marcus on AI
Apple AI researchers say they found no evidence of formal reasoning in language models and their behavior is better explained by sophisticated pattern matching
RE: https://www.threads.net/... Brian Penny / @thebrianpenny : Great quick read from Gary Marcus pointing to several studies from ML researchers at Apple and Stanford pointing out ...
2024-10-12
This looks like great work and the name change stuff definitely suggests some kind of overfitting or contamination. But I wish people would stop speculating about human performance without just running human baselines!
Marcus on AI
Apple AI researchers say they found no evidence of formal reasoning in language models and their behavior is better explained by sophisticated pattern matching
Important new study from Apple — A superb new article on LLMs from six AI researchers at Apple who were brave enough …