carl24k
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#DataScience & #MachineLearning - #Neuroscience & #NeuroAI - Author of Fighting Churn With Data - https://linktr.ee/carl24k
Serious debate on the future of #GenAI at the NeurIPS conference...
www.theinformation.com/articles/ais...
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#aihype #ai
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#aihype #ai
At AI’s Biggest Event, Some Researchers Said the Field Needs an Overhaul
A small but growing number of artificial intelligence developers at OpenAI, Google and other companies say they’re skeptical that today’s technical approaches to AI will achieve major breakthroughs in...
www.theinformation.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Serious debate on the future of #GenAI at the NeurIPS conference...
www.theinformation.com/articles/ais...
(DM me for full text if you want to see the article)
#aihype #ai
www.theinformation.com/articles/ais...
(DM me for full text if you want to see the article)
#aihype #ai
With so much talk about "Agents" these days, do you want an objective POV on what the tech can really do? TLDR: Progress has been rapid in the last year, but agents still have a long way to go! I recommend watching the Leader Board of the Carnegie Mellon "Agent Company" task completion benchmark.
December 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
With so much talk about "Agents" these days, do you want an objective POV on what the tech can really do? TLDR: Progress has been rapid in the last year, but agents still have a long way to go! I recommend watching the Leader Board of the Carnegie Mellon "Agent Company" task completion benchmark.
Need some good #datascience #churn brainfood for the holiday weekend? There's a neat new research paper in Nature Magazine ScientificReports on using Extreme Learning nets to predict #churn! #dataskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Multimedia data-driven customer churn prediction using an enhanced extreme learning machine - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Multimedia data-driven customer churn prediction using an enhanced extreme learning machine
www.nature.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Need some good #datascience #churn brainfood for the holiday weekend? There's a neat new research paper in Nature Magazine ScientificReports on using Extreme Learning nets to predict #churn! #dataskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The New York Times is playing both sides of the AI bubble question this week:
First, an update opinion piece: AI Is a Bubble. Maybe That's OK
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/o...
Then, a more worrying view in business coverage:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/t...
#AIHype #AIBubble #GenAI
First, an update opinion piece: AI Is a Bubble. Maybe That's OK
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/o...
Then, a more worrying view in business coverage:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/t...
#AIHype #AIBubble #GenAI
November 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The New York Times is playing both sides of the AI bubble question this week:
First, an update opinion piece: AI Is a Bubble. Maybe That's OK
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/o...
Then, a more worrying view in business coverage:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/t...
#AIHype #AIBubble #GenAI
First, an update opinion piece: AI Is a Bubble. Maybe That's OK
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/o...
Then, a more worrying view in business coverage:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/t...
#AIHype #AIBubble #GenAI
Is LeCun an AI prophet or an opportunist who claims the ideas of others as his own? The Gary Marcus v. Yan LeCun flame war heats up...
Maybe his own with a new startup will be a chance to see if reality can match his hype? WDYT?
garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-false-...
#AI #GenAI #NeuralNetworks
Maybe his own with a new startup will be a chance to see if reality can match his hype? WDYT?
garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-false-...
#AI #GenAI #NeuralNetworks
The False Glorification of Yann LeCun
Don’t believe everything you read
garymarcus.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Is LeCun an AI prophet or an opportunist who claims the ideas of others as his own? The Gary Marcus v. Yan LeCun flame war heats up...
Maybe his own with a new startup will be a chance to see if reality can match his hype? WDYT?
garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-false-...
#AI #GenAI #NeuralNetworks
Maybe his own with a new startup will be a chance to see if reality can match his hype? WDYT?
garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-false-...
#AI #GenAI #NeuralNetworks
IMHO "Forward Deployed" was always just a fancy way of saying "services". Am I right? But I'm glad to see my old job is getting some respect!
www.ft.com/content/9100...
#AI #forwarddeployed #services
www.ft.com/content/9100...
#AI #forwarddeployed #services
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
IMHO "Forward Deployed" was always just a fancy way of saying "services". Am I right? But I'm glad to see my old job is getting some respect!
www.ft.com/content/9100...
#AI #forwarddeployed #services
www.ft.com/content/9100...
#AI #forwarddeployed #services
So now chatbots are "too big to fail" like the investment banks in 2007? Gimme a break! 🤯
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/is-o...
DM if you want the full text article.
#AIHype #AI #GenAI #Bubble
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/is-o...
DM if you want the full text article.
#AIHype #AI #GenAI #Bubble
Is OpenAI Becoming Too Big to Fail?
Sam Altman’s ability to intertwine the startup throughout major tech players puts it at the nexus of a vital part of the U.S. economy.
www.wsj.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
So now chatbots are "too big to fail" like the investment banks in 2007? Gimme a break! 🤯
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/is-o...
DM if you want the full text article.
#AIHype #AI #GenAI #Bubble
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/is-o...
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#AIHype #AI #GenAI #Bubble
Spooky savings from @manning.com ! Save half sitewide all Halloween weekend! Plus, get any liveProject and liveVideo for just $10 each. Great time to Fight Churn With Data: www.manning.com/books/fighti...
October 31, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Spooky savings from @manning.com ! Save half sitewide all Halloween weekend! Plus, get any liveProject and liveVideo for just $10 each. Great time to Fight Churn With Data: www.manning.com/books/fighti...
Harvard Business Review weighs in on the #AI question - spoiler alert, they don't take a stand either way.
hbr.org/2025/10/is-a...
#AIHype #GenAI
hbr.org/2025/10/is-a...
#AIHype #GenAI
Is AI a Boom or a Bubble?
Nvidia’s $100 billion commitment to OpenAI—and OpenAI’s reciprocal chip purchases—signal an AI arms race accelerating at breakneck speed. How can leaders make sense of this market? An examination of r...
hbr.org
October 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Harvard Business Review weighs in on the #AI question - spoiler alert, they don't take a stand either way.
hbr.org/2025/10/is-a...
#AIHype #GenAI
hbr.org/2025/10/is-a...
#AIHype #GenAI
Finally someone speaks for the silent majority on the "AI question" ...
Thank you @anildash.com !
www.anildash.com/2025/10/17/t...
Thank you @anildash.com !
www.anildash.com/2025/10/17/t...
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Finally someone speaks for the silent majority on the "AI question" ...
Thank you @anildash.com !
www.anildash.com/2025/10/17/t...
Thank you @anildash.com !
www.anildash.com/2025/10/17/t...
The latest outrageous #AIHype - "Erdos-gate" : GPT-5 had only surfaced existing research, but a senior penAI manager posted that GPT-5 had "found solutions to 10 (!) previously unsolved Erdős problems".
the-decoder.com/leading-open...
the-decoder.com/leading-open...
Leading OpenAI researcher announced a GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened
OpenAI researchers recently claimed a major math breakthrough on X, but quickly walked it back after criticism from the community, including Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis, who called out the sloppy comm...
the-decoder.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The latest outrageous #AIHype - "Erdos-gate" : GPT-5 had only surfaced existing research, but a senior penAI manager posted that GPT-5 had "found solutions to 10 (!) previously unsolved Erdős problems".
the-decoder.com/leading-open...
the-decoder.com/leading-open...
Are you looking for TMI about AI? Look no further - the 2025 State of #AI report is here! I'm still wrapping my head around the information overload in this report 🤯
Please share your favorite finding in the report here!
www.stateof.ai
Please share your favorite finding in the report here!
www.stateof.ai
State of AI Report 2025
The State of AI Report analyses the most interesting developments in AI. Read and download here.
www.stateof.ai
October 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Are you looking for TMI about AI? Look no further - the 2025 State of #AI report is here! I'm still wrapping my head around the information overload in this report 🤯
Please share your favorite finding in the report here!
www.stateof.ai
Please share your favorite finding in the report here!
www.stateof.ai
More news from the intersection of AI and churn, my two favorite subjects: Vibe coding usage plunged after summer high.
- Lovable down 40% since its peak
- Vercel's v0 visits plunge 64%
- Bolt.new slipped 27% since June
www.businessinsider.com/ai-vibe-codi...
#AI #genai #churn #aihype
- Lovable down 40% since its peak
- Vercel's v0 visits plunge 64%
- Bolt.new slipped 27% since June
www.businessinsider.com/ai-vibe-codi...
#AI #genai #churn #aihype
October 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I am officially a serial churner from GenAI products - in the last 6 months I have signed up and then canceled a month each of both Claude and Gemini. I was working on specific projects, hit the limits, and I signed up. Then I finished the projects, my usage dropped...
#genai #churn
#genai #churn
September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
TLDR : AI has led to reasonable revenue growth for a few companies that are pioneering in AI, but no broader economic growth or productivity gains.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-hype-cras...
#AIHype #LLM
www.businessinsider.com/ai-hype-cras...
#AIHype #LLM
Tech's hottest industry is facing a brutal reality check. That's a good thing in the long run.
Between Nvidia's recent earnings and OpenAI's underwhelming GPT-5, it's clear AI is entering its "meh" era. That's good news for everyone.
www.businessinsider.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
TLDR : AI has led to reasonable revenue growth for a few companies that are pioneering in AI, but no broader economic growth or productivity gains.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-hype-cras...
#AIHype #LLM
www.businessinsider.com/ai-hype-cras...
#AIHype #LLM
Are you an LLM AGI skeptic? Leading LLM AGI skeptic Gary Marcus has posted an op Ed in the New York Times:
TLDR : scaling has really run out of steam. New approaches are needed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/o...
#aihype #llm #agi
TLDR : scaling has really run out of steam. New approaches are needed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/o...
#aihype #llm #agi
Opinion | The Fever Dream of Imminent Superintelligence Is Finally Breaking
www.nytimes.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Are you an LLM AGI skeptic? Leading LLM AGI skeptic Gary Marcus has posted an op Ed in the New York Times:
TLDR : scaling has really run out of steam. New approaches are needed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/o...
#aihype #llm #agi
TLDR : scaling has really run out of steam. New approaches are needed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/o...
#aihype #llm #agi
Need some last minute reading for your Labor Day Weekend? Just in time, its @manning.com #labordaysale! Labor can meet the beach as you #learntocode or #learndatascience this weekend! www.manning.com/books/fighti...
August 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Need some last minute reading for your Labor Day Weekend? Just in time, its @manning.com #labordaysale! Labor can meet the beach as you #learntocode or #learndatascience this weekend! www.manning.com/books/fighti...
Are #AI and #churn your two favorite subjects? Then you are my BFF! But seriously, these two subjects combine in one great article...
AI companies have set unbelievable records for rapid growth in ARR, but these companies have equally astonishing churn rates.
#AIHype
sifted.eu/articles/ai-...
AI companies have set unbelievable records for rapid growth in ARR, but these companies have equally astonishing churn rates.
#AIHype
sifted.eu/articles/ai-...
The AI bubble: fuelled by an ARR obsession, undone by churn?
ARR: the tech world’s favourite three-letter flex. LinkedIn is abuzz with discussion about which company has the highest.
sifted.eu
August 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Are #AI and #churn your two favorite subjects? Then you are my BFF! But seriously, these two subjects combine in one great article...
AI companies have set unbelievable records for rapid growth in ARR, but these companies have equally astonishing churn rates.
#AIHype
sifted.eu/articles/ai-...
AI companies have set unbelievable records for rapid growth in ARR, but these companies have equally astonishing churn rates.
#AIHype
sifted.eu/articles/ai-...
This #AI report caused stocks to drop this week. Learnings & takeaways:
- Buying tools is better than in-house apps
- Back office automation most successful; most companies focus on sales and marketing.
- managers should drive adoption, not an AI group
#aihype
finance.yahoo.com/news/mit-rep...
- Buying tools is better than in-house apps
- Back office automation most successful; most companies focus on sales and marketing.
- managers should drive adoption, not an AI group
#aihype
finance.yahoo.com/news/mit-rep...
MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.
finance.yahoo.com
August 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This #AI report caused stocks to drop this week. Learnings & takeaways:
- Buying tools is better than in-house apps
- Back office automation most successful; most companies focus on sales and marketing.
- managers should drive adoption, not an AI group
#aihype
finance.yahoo.com/news/mit-rep...
- Buying tools is better than in-house apps
- Back office automation most successful; most companies focus on sales and marketing.
- managers should drive adoption, not an AI group
#aihype
finance.yahoo.com/news/mit-rep...
If the "productivity paradox" of the 90's is any guide, we should start to see AI impacting productivity numbers in about 10 years. So not seeing AI "pay off" yet should not come as a surprise.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/b...
#AI #LLM #AIHYPE
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/b...
#AI #LLM #AIHYPE
Companies Are Pouring Billions Into A.I. It Has Yet to Pay Off.
www.nytimes.com
August 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
If the "productivity paradox" of the 90's is any guide, we should start to see AI impacting productivity numbers in about 10 years. So not seeing AI "pay off" yet should not come as a surprise.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/b...
#AI #LLM #AIHYPE
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/b...
#AI #LLM #AIHYPE
A Warm welcome to my publisher @manning.com who has joined us on Bluesky 🎉. #learntocode #learndatascience
August 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
A Warm welcome to my publisher @manning.com who has joined us on Bluesky 🎉. #learntocode #learndatascience
Do you want to know if "AI Agents" are ready for prime time or just hype? So did researchers at Carnegie Mellon University -- the results may surprise you!
www.cs.cmu.edu/news/2025/ag...
#AI #AIAgents #LLM #AIHype #AIResearch #CMU #Claude #Gemini #GPT4o
www.cs.cmu.edu/news/2025/ag...
#AI #AIAgents #LLM #AIHype #AIResearch #CMU #Claude #Gemini #GPT4o
Simulated Company Shows Most AI Agents Flunk the Job
TheAgentCompany and its employees are fake, but the simulation environment created by CMU researchers to benchmark AI agents and test their abilities on real-world tasks shows that most AIs would make...
www.cs.cmu.edu
August 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Do you want to know if "AI Agents" are ready for prime time or just hype? So did researchers at Carnegie Mellon University -- the results may surprise you!
www.cs.cmu.edu/news/2025/ag...
#AI #AIAgents #LLM #AIHype #AIResearch #CMU #Claude #Gemini #GPT4o
www.cs.cmu.edu/news/2025/ag...
#AI #AIAgents #LLM #AIHype #AIResearch #CMU #Claude #Gemini #GPT4o
Has #DataScience Become a Pseudo Science? I came across this pretty scary/sad Reddit, Inc. thread - has "democratization" of data science with #AI tools lead to a collapse in standards? Here's my rant on the topic...
www.reddit.com/r/datascienc...
www.reddit.com/r/datascienc...
Data Science Has Become a Pseudo-Science
www.reddit.com
July 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Has #DataScience Become a Pseudo Science? I came across this pretty scary/sad Reddit, Inc. thread - has "democratization" of data science with #AI tools lead to a collapse in standards? Here's my rant on the topic...
www.reddit.com/r/datascienc...
www.reddit.com/r/datascienc...
My PR to the #EconML #PyWhy #opensource #causalai project was merged! 🎉 I made a small contribution by allowing a flexible choice of evaluation metric for scoring both the first stage and final stage models in Double Machine Learning (#DML).
#CausalInference #machinelearning #datascience
#CausalInference #machinelearning #datascience
July 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
My PR to the #EconML #PyWhy #opensource #causalai project was merged! 🎉 I made a small contribution by allowing a flexible choice of evaluation metric for scoring both the first stage and final stage models in Double Machine Learning (#DML).
#CausalInference #machinelearning #datascience
#CausalInference #machinelearning #datascience