Gary Marcus
8 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 13, 2022 by Gary Marcus · said 14 times in 8 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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2026 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- OpenAI’s User Growth Miss, Musk vs. Altman In Court, Prediction Market Ban
- SpaceX’s IPO Triumph, Anthropic’s Fable Fumble, OpenAI’s Price War
- AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
- AI Backlash Intensifies, Nvidia GTC Preview, Meta’s Embarrassing Delay
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2025 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
- Sam Altman’s Gentle Singularity, Zuck’s AI Power Play, Burning Of The Waymos
- The ‘AI-First Company,’ Big Tech Mega Earnings, NVIDIA vs. Anthropic
- Is Anthropic’s Claude AI Conscious, Shopping in ChatGPT, Systrom vs. Zuck
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Sep 13, 2022 positive
Sep 13, 2022 neutral
Marcus: Building sentient machines is possible, but we do not know how
“I am in no way arguing that it is not possible to build a sentient machine. I don't think we know how to do it, and I don't think we're clear enough on what it would consist of, but I'm not making the argument that it's impossible.”
Feb 23, 2023 bearish
Feb 23, 2023 bearish
Marcus: Current AI is a dress rehearsal showing we are not ready for AGI
“I, I've been thinking about this whole thing as a dress rehearsal. And before we didn't know how to make a dress rehearsal. This is a dress rehearsal for AGI. And you know, the lesson of the dress rehearsal is like, we are not ready for prime time. Let us not …”
May 7, 2025 bearish
May 7, 2025 bullish
May 7, 2025 bearish
May 7, 2025 bearish
Marcus: 'Reasoning' AI models only mimic patterns without genuine abstractions
“Now, the reason I wouldn't call them reasoning models, though you're right that many people do, is what I think they're doing is basically copying patterns of human reasoning. They're getting data about how humans reason certain things, but the depth of reason…”