Archive - The Technoskeptic Magazine

GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it.

A new release botched … and a breaking research new paper that spells trouble

Published on Marcus on AI • Aug 12

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐧 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐖𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐐𝐮𝐢𝐭 𝐋𝐋𝐌𝐬 — 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐀𝐬 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐬 “𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐄𝐧𝐝”

"The Psychological, Financial, and Cultural Factors Behind the $10T Illusion — And None Are Technical"

Published on Srini’s Substack • Aug 11

July 2025

Can’t help hallucinating: Baby, LLM was born this way

There's no stopping LLMs from hallucinating.

Published on Mechanism Minded • Jul 26

LLMs: Dishonest, unpredictable and potentially dangerous.

Will we ever be able to control them?

Published on Marcus on AI • Jul 20

April 2025

OpenAI’s dirty December o3 demo doesn’t readily replicate

Don’t believe everything you see

Published on Marcus on AI • Apr 27

Reports of LLMs mastering math have been greatly exaggerated

What happens when you minimize the chance of data leakage?

Published on Marcus on AI • Apr 6

March 2025

GenAI’s day of reckoning may have come

It’s not just the stock price

Published on Marcus on AI • Mar 30

What Has Happened to Our Grand Experiment, the Internet?

With AI threatening to diminish everything that’s been good about online life while creating unprecedented chaos, Congress needs to reinstate the Office…

Mar 16 •

Decoding (and debunking) Hard Fork’s Kevin Roose

His latest New York Times piece tells us a lot about what he doesn’t really understand

Published on Marcus on AI • Mar 4

Brain Organoids-It Begins with Playing Pong

Mar 2 •

February 2025

Holly Elmore of Pause AI

The two words say it all: Pause AI

Feb 18 •

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LLMs and World Models, Part 2

Evidence For (and Against) Emergent World Models in LLMs

Published on AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans • Feb 15

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