Gary Marcus

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Gary Marcus is a scientist, best-selling author, and entrepreneur. He is Founder and CEO of Robust.AI, and was Founder and CEO of Geometric Intelligence, a machine learning company acquired by Uber in 2016. He is the author of five books, including The Algebraic Mind, Kluge, The Birth of the Mind, and The New York Times best seller Guitar Zero, as well as editor of The Future of the Brain and The Norton Psychology Reader.

He has published extensively in fields ranging from human and animal behavior to neuroscience, genetics, linguistics, evolutionary psychology and artificial intelligence, often in leading journals such as Science and Nature, and is perhaps the youngest Professor Emeritus at NYU. His newest book, co-authored with Ernest Davis, Rebooting AI: Building Machines We Can Trust aims to shake up the field of artificial intelligence.

July 12, 2023

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A big win for Microsoft leads critics of FTC chair Lina Khan to come out of the woodwork. Anthropic has released its Claude 2 chatbot. Say hello to the Nothing Phone (2). And while the market caps of the big players might ha…

Guests: Brian McCullough , Avi Loeb , Connie Chan , Peter Kafka , Chris Messina , Joshua Schachter , Brady Dale , Josh Constine , Alex Kantrowitz , Rene Ritchie , Bryan Salesky , James McLeod , Alex Wilhelm , Christopher Mims , Steven Levy , Lloyd B. Minor, MD , Sam Rutherford , Angela Strange , Dan Frommer , Will Martin , Christina Farr , Flynn Coleman , Mark Bergen , Mike Murphy , Jay Yarow , Farhad Manjoo , Steve Case , Harry McCracken , Satish Jeyachandran , Gary Marcus , John Voorhees , Julia Alexander , Charles Fishman , Charles Nix , M.G. Siegler , Rafat Ali , Garry Tan , Noah Smith , Katie Roof , Natasha Mascarenhas , Christine Hall , Ilya Rosenberg , Andrew Chen , Kayvon Beykpour , Jackson Dame , SHL0MS , Janine Yorio , Ross Mayfield , Sonal Chokshi , Kaya Yurieff , Gregarious Narain , Nigel Pickles , Reesha Howard , Tony Haile , Ed Zitron , Joseph Flaherty , Chris Fralic , Romeen Sheth , Robert Scoble , Kyle Hilliard , Rob Maurer , Ali Tamaseb , Howard Lindzon , Nick Quah , Peter Linder , Timothy B. Lee , Jacob Ward , Victor Luckerson , Taylor Lorenz , Jason Schreier , Casey Newton , Justin Brookman , Matt Stroud , Harry Campbell , Federico Viticci , Bill Gattle , Alison Griswold , Jason Rowley , Dave Bittner , Dan Keyserling , Dexter Thillien , Shira Ovide , Eric Jackson , Simon Owens , Matt Simon , Brian Heater , Aaron Lammer , Matt Stoller , Joe Fassler , Mike Davidson , Jason Del Rey , Mark Gurman , Benedict Evans , Charlie O'Donnell

Sept. 15, 2019

(Bonus) Building AI We Can Trust With Gary Marcus

As I mentioned in the Weekend Longreads segment, Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis had an op ed in the times that has changed the way I think about the state of AI. But they’re also the authors of a great new book, Rebooting AI: …

Guest: Gary Marcus