Gary Marcus: Toward a Hybrid of Deep Learning and Symbolic AI

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Lex Fridman

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

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🗓️ 3 October 2019

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Gary Marcus is a professor emeritus at NYU, founder of Robust.AI and Geometric Intelligence, the latter is a machine learning company acquired by Uber in 2016. He is the author of several books on natural and artificial intelligence, including his new book Rebooting AI: Building Machines We Can Trust. Gary has been a critical voice highlighting the limits of deep learning and discussing the challenges before the AI community that must be solved in order to achieve artificial general intelligence. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go

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0:00.0	The following is a conversation with Gary Marcus.
0:02.8	He's a professor emeritus at NYU, founder,
0:05.4	robust AI, and geometric intelligence.
0:08.2	The latter is a machine learning company
0:10.3	that was acquired by Uber in 2016.
0:13.5	He's the author of several books on natural
0:16.4	and artificial intelligence, including his new book,
0:19.5	Rebooting AI, Building Machines We Can Trust.
0:23.4	Gary has been a critical voice highlighting
0:26.0	the limits of deep learning and AI in general,
0:28.8	and discussing the challenges before our AI community
0:33.6	that must be solved in order to achieve
0:35.7	artificial general intelligence.
0:38.2	As I'm having these conversations,
0:40.1	I try to find paths towards insight, towards new ideas.
0:43.6	I try to have no ego in the process and get them away.
0:47.6	I'll often continuously try on several hats, several roles.
0:52.2	One, for example, is the role of a three-year-old
0:54.7	who understands very little about anything
0:57.1	and asks big what and why questions.
1:00.3	The other might be a role of a devil's advocate
1:02.9	who presents counter ideas with goal of arriving
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