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Gary Marcus Says Neurosymbolic AI Vindicates His Deep Learning Warnings

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Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus#153inAI

People who say this kind of thing are completely lost about what I actually said about deep learning, and I would strongly encourage them to read “Deep learning is hitting a wall” (2022).

What I said there (and in 2018 etc), completely explicitly, was that deep learning would need to be supplemented by neurosymbolic AI.

And that is EXACTLY what happened. Claude Code, for example, is absolute vindication of what I argued. So are code interpreters, tool use, symbolic harnesses, etc.

(If you don’t understand that, you don’t understand the first thing about AI architecture, and are simply betraying your own ignorance.)

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Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus

The persistent campaign to discredit me begins with a fundamental misunderstanding of my work.

It is worth taking the time to understand the issues, if you want to understand a lot of what is driving current gains (hint, it is NOT just about pure scaling).

Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus

People who say this kind of thing are completely lost about what I actually said about deep learning, and I would strongly encourage them to read “Deep learning is hitting a wall” (2022).

What I said there (and in 2018 etc), completely explicitly, was that deep learning would need to be supplemented by neurosymbolic AI.

And that is EXACTLY what happened. Claude Code, for example, is absolute vindication of what I argued. So are code interpreters, tool use, symbolic harnesses, etc.

(If you don’t understand that, you don’t understand the first thing about AI architecture, and are simply betraying your own ignorance.)

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