What Gary Marcus thinks about innovation

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Cognitive scientist, professor emeritus of psychology and neural science at NYU, and the most persistent public critic of large language models. Author of The Algebraic Mind and Rebooting AI; writes the Marcus on AI newsletter.

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1. 9 Aug 2025

   Our readingGPT-5 was an ordinary incremental advance, and the gap between what was promised for it and what shipped is the story of the field.

   OpenAI

   Their wordsPeople had grown to expect miracles, but GPT-5 is just the latest incremental advance.

   ↗GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it.garymarcus.substack.com