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born 1970 United States

Gary Marcus (born 1970) is an American psychologist, cognitive scientist, and author, known for his research on the intersection of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence (AI).

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I wrote a book ...Kluge which is about all the times it fails.

Gary Marcus - Taming Silicon Valley (2024)

Is AI, on balance, going to be good for society or bad for society?" ...What kind of AI should we want?

Gary Marcus - Taming Silicon Valley (2024)

AI is basically an unsolved problem, no matter what the Sam Altmans of the world might want you to think.

Gary Marcus - Taming Silicon Valley (2024)

They're almost complimentary, but neither approach has ever worked on its own.

Gary Marcus - Taming Silicon Valley (2024)

Generative AI has not proven itself to be a net positive for society.

Gary Marcus - Taming Silicon Valley (2024)

Classical AI is almost the opposite. It's good at reasoning, and not very good at learning.

Gary Marcus - Taming Silicon Valley (2024)

Generative AI is really good at learning. It's pretty poor at reasoning.

Gary Marcus - Taming Silicon Valley (2024)

We cannot construct rich cognitive models in an adequate, automated way without the triumvirate of hybrid architecture, rich prior knowledge, and sophisticated techniques for reasoning.

The Next Decade in AI: Four Steps Towards Robust Artificial Intelligence (2020)

Large language models... are... fun to play with but there are these myths... that they're getting better every few months.

Gary Marcus - Taming Silicon Valley (2024)

One of the oldest debates in intellectual history revolves around the somewhat nebulous concept of innateness. How much of the human mind is built-in, and how much of it is constructed by experience?

Innateness, AlphaZero, and Artificial Intelligence (2018)

It's interpretable. You can understand what it is doing.

Gary Marcus - Taming Silicon Valley (2024)

Elon Musk ...keeps playing the hype card with driverless cars.

Gary Marcus - Taming Silicon Valley (2024)

If anyone wants to teach me about grassroots action, I'm very much all ears right now.

Gary Marcus - Taming Silicon Valley (2024)

We should think about AI like we think about aviation. There's a lot potentially at stake.

Gary Marcus - Taming Silicon Valley (2024)

To get there... we're going to need to take some clues... from the human mind.

Gary Marcus - Taming Silicon Valley (2024)

There is a huge gap between what big tech companies say about responsible AI, and what they... do.

Gary Marcus - Taming Silicon Valley (2024)

They have a disconnection from reality.., and... they display severe psychopathy.

Gary Marcus - Taming Silicon Valley (2024)

We shouldn't expect any single law is... going to handle all of this.

Gary Marcus - Taming Silicon Valley (2024)

We... need national and global AI agencies.

Gary Marcus - Taming Silicon Valley (2024)

The choices that we make now about AI will have lasting effects, possibly for decades, even for centuries. We've got to get this right now and build an AI that works for us!

Gary Marcus - Taming Silicon Valley (2024)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gary Marcus (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.