Gary Marcus

Gary Marcus is an American cognitive scientist and New York University professor emeritus known for his critiques of deep learning.

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Gary Marcus is an American cognitive scientist and author, and professor emeritus of psychology and neural science at New York University. His research has focused on language acquisition in children. He co-founded the AI startup Geometric Intelligence, which Uber acquired in 2016.

He is a prominent critic of deep learning and large language models, arguing that they fall short on reasoning and reliability, and he advocates hybrid approaches that combine symbolic methods with neural networks. His books include Rebooting AI (2019), co-written with Ernest Davis.

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Cognitive scientist Gary Marcus offers a central objection: fluent language can be mimicry rather than a report of an internal conscious state.


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