Gary Marcus Lists Six Dubious AI Industry Strategies

Gary Marcus posted on X that the AI industry has tried six strategies he called dubious. He named them Doom about civilizations ending, Gloom about widespread job losses, Nerd Rapture claiming AI will exceed all humans by next year, Terror regarding China, Price Wars with heavy discounts, and a new model of pay when it works. Marcus, identified in the post as a cognitive scientist and author critical of deep learning and LLMs, presented the list as the industry's latest business approaches.