What Gary Marcus thinks about neural networks

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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. 11 Oct 2024

   Our readingScaling the 2019-2023 recipe — same architecture, bigger model, more data — is not enough; further progress depends on new architectural ideas.

   Their wordsNeurosymbolic AI — combining such machinery with neural networks – is likely a necessary condition for going forward.

   ↗LLMs don’t do formal reasoning - and that is a HUGE problemgarymarcus.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece