Gary Marcus is now one of the loudest skeptics of the AI boom. In 2012, almost nobody was listening.
I have the tape.
That year, I sat down with him for Singularity. FM, right after he published a sharp critique of Ray Kurzweil’s theory of mind in The New Yorker. Marcus was already making the argument that would define his career. Intelligence is not just pattern-matching. The mind is a kluge, a messy evolutionary patch job. And scale alone will not get you to real #AI.
More than a decade later, that argument is everywhere. Labs are chasing the hybrid and neurosymbolic approaches he pointed to back then. The field finally caught up to the conversation.
But here is what makes the interview worth revisiting. He also bet big on neuroscience as the road forward, on projects like Blue Brain and Whole Brain Emulation. The breakthroughs came from somewhere else entirely.
So was he the prophet, or just early on some calls and wrong on others? Watch it and decide for yourself.
Fourteen years on, this one still starts an argument. That is exactly why it is worth your time.
#ArtificialIntelligence #GaryMarcus #AGI #Singularity.
Psychology professor & best selling author Gary Marcus criticized Ray Kurzweil’s ‘Dubious New Theory of Mind’. See his interview to find out why.