Gary Marcus
Leading Voice in AI & Emeritus Professor, New York University
Gary Marcus is a prominent figure in cognitive science and artificial intelligence. As the co-founder of the Center for the Advancement of Trustworthy AI, he is widely recognised for his critiques of modern AI, having predicted many of its current limitations years ago. For over three decades, he has been a strong proponent of neurosymbolic AI.
“AI for Good.”
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Gary Marcus has often contributed to The New Yorker, Wired, and The New York Times. His 2022 article “Deep Learning is Hitting a Wall” initially enraged many AI researchers but was ultimately named one of Pocket’s Best Tech Articles of 2022. Its key conclusions –that current AI systems face serious limits in truth, comprehension, and reliability—have now been widely accepted even by many of his most prominent critics. Marcus is currently challenging the field in a series of articles at garymarcus.substack.com which has quickly become a leading blog on AI, and has just launched an 8-episode podcast, “Humans versus Machines.”
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Gary Marcus is renowned for his challenges to contemporary AI, anticipating many of the current limitations’ decades in advance, and for his research in human language development and cognitive neuroscience.