Sam Altman and generative AI can't be trusted, says leading expert

Gary Marcus, left, who founded a machine learning company, argued in a recent column for The Guardian that Sam Altman can't be trusted and that AI is headed in the wrong direction.

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• Gary Marcus, founder of Geometric Intelligence, testified before the Senate with Sam Altman in 2023.
• Once hopeful of Altman, Marcus now says that the OpenAI CEO can't be trusted.
• The AI expert also wrote in The Guardian that we're on the wrong path to AI.

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