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GARY MARCUS is a leading voice in artificial intelligence. He is a scientist, best-selling author, and serial entrepreneur (founder of Robust.AI and Geometric.AI, acquired by Uber). He is well-known for his challenges to contemporary AI, anticipating many of the current limitations decades in advance, and for his research in human language development and cognitive neuroscience.

An Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at NYU, Gary Marcus is the author of five books, including,The Algebraic Mind, Kluge, The Birth of the Mind, and the New York Times Bestseller Guitar Zero. He has often contributed to The New Yorker, Wired, and The New York Times. His most recent book, Rebooting AI, with Ernest Davis, is one of Forbes’s 7 Must Read Books in AI. You can follow him at garymarcus.substack.com and on Twitter, @garymarcus.


Articles by Gary Marcus

OpenAI’s new text-to-video app is impressive, at first sight. But those physics glitches…

By Gary Marcus | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris arrive to announce the Biden administration's approach to artificial intelligence Monday. President Biden issued a new executive order on Monday, directing his administration to create a new chief AI officer, track companies developing the most powerful AI systems, adopt stronger privacy policies, and "both deploy AI and guard against its possible bias," creating new safety guidelines and industry standards. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

A first take on the White House executive order on AI: A great start that perhaps doesn’t go far enough

By Gary Marcus | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies