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Gary Marcus

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The Algebraic Mind

“I see a set of problems that a cognitive creature must solve, many of which I wrote in my 2,001 book, The Algebraic Mind.”

Machine Learning Street Talk · 24 Jun 2025

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The Future of the Brain

“And it was in a book that I wrote called The Future of the Brain, which I guess we wrote in 02/2015.”

Machine Learning Street Talk · 24 Jun 2025

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We have slightly different ideas about world models. But he would say, I don't think we're close because we don't really have world models and neither of us I think are satisfied with the current thing that some people call reasoning but neither of us think is robust enough.

“We have slightly different ideas about world models. But he would say, I don't think we're close because we don't really have world models and neither of us I think are satisfied with the current thing that some people call reasoning but neither of us think is robust enough.”
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Gary Marcus
Publisher
Machine Learning Street Talk

02 / evaluation

On Tower of Hanoi, Herb Simon solved it in 1957 with a classical technique that generalizes to arbitrary length whereas the LLMs do not generalize to arbitrary length and face problems. And so I could go through more but the gist of it is I don't see the qualitative problems that I think need to be solved.

“On Tower of Hanoi, Herb Simon solved it in 1957 with a classical technique that generalizes to arbitrary length whereas the LLMs do not generalize to arbitrary length and face problems. And so I could go through more but the gist of it is I don't see the qualitative problems that I think need to be solved.”
Speaker
Gary Marcus
Publisher
Machine Learning Street Talk

03 / evaluation

It works better for things like math where you can verify that the the augmented data are better. And so I think we're already running against that, kind of like bottleneck on 1 of the, let's say, raw resources that go in at least into the current approaches.

“It works better for things like math where you can verify that the the augmented data are better. And so I think we're already running against that, kind of like bottleneck on 1 of the, let's say, raw resources that go in at least into the current approaches.”
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Gary Marcus
Publisher
Machine Learning Street Talk

04 / evaluation

I take I take even, like, don't make illegal moves in chess to be a form of the alignment problem, like a very simple microcosm of the alignment problem, and they're still struggling with that.

“I take I take even, like, don't make illegal moves in chess to be a form of the alignment problem, like a very simple microcosm of the alignment problem, and they're still struggling with that.”
Speaker
Gary Marcus
Publisher
Machine Learning Street Talk
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