AI Reading List: Gary Marcus Archive
Below is a portion of my informal list of readings related to Artificial Intelligence (AI). This started out as a very short list created for use in conjunction with an academic presentation and has now grown much larger. Please let me know if you have any corrections, additions, suggestions, etc. It is very idiosyncratic and not meant to be comprehensive. Please feel free to share with others.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Reading List, by Philip Rubin
Gary Marcus-related stuff: 2015-2022
Ernest Davis and Gary Marcus. Commonsense reasoning and commonsense knowledge in artificial intelligence. Communications of the ACM, 58(9)(9), 92-103, 2015.
Gary Marcus. Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal. arxiv.org/abs/1801.00631. 2018
Gary Marcus. Innateness, AlphaZero, and Artificial Intelligence. arxiv.org/abs/1801.05667. 2018
Gary Marcus. The Next Decade in AI: Four Steps Towards Robust Artificial Intelligence. arxiv.org/abs/2002.06177. 2020
Gary Marcus. Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall. Nautilus, 2022.
Gary Marcus, Ernest Davis, and Scott Aaronson. A very preliminary analysis of DALL-E 2. arxiv.org/abs/2204.13807. 2022.
Gary Marcus. Noam Chomsky and GPT-3. garymarcus.substack.com, May 21, 2022.
Gary Marcus. Dear Elon Musk, here are five things you might want to consider about AGI. The Road To AI We Can Trust, May 31, 2022.
Gary Marcus. Artificial General Intelligence Is Not as Imminent as You Might Think. Scientific American, June 6, 2022.
Scott Alexander. Somewhat Contra Marcus On AI Scaling. Astral Codex Ten, June 9, 2022.
Gary Marcus. Does AI really need a paradigm shift? The Road To AI We Can Trust, June 11, 2022.
Gary Marcus. Nonsense on Stilts: No, LaMDA is not sentient. Not even slightly. garymarcus.substack.com, June 12, 2022.
Gary Marcus. Will Tesla ever “Solve” Full Self Driving? The Road To AI We Can Trust, June 15, 2022.
Gary Marcus. Three ideas from linguistics that everyone in AI should know. garymarcus.substack.com, June 22, 2022.
Gary Marcus. Learning Language is Harder Than You Think. garymarcus.substack.com, July 20, 2022.
Gary Marcus. What’s wrong with Google’s new robot project. garymarcus.substack.com, August 18, 2022.
Gary Marcus. Did GoogleAI Just Snooker One of Silicon Valley’s Sharpest Minds? garymarcus.substack.com, Sep. 14, 2022.
Gary Marcus. Form, function, and the giant gulf between drawing a picture and understanding the world. garymarcus.substack.com, Sep. 18, 2022.
Eric Hoel. How AI's critics end up serving the AIs. The Intrinsic Perspective. Sep. 21, 2022.
Gary Marcus. The New Sport of Misrepresenting AI Criticism. garymarcus.substack.com, Sep. 22, 2022.
Gary Marcus. How New are Yann LeCun’s “New” Ideas? garymarcus.substack.com, Sep. 25, 2022.
Gary Marcus. Top 5 reasons Tesla’s Optimus announcement may turn out be a dud. garymarcus.substack.com, Sep. 28, 2022.
Gary Marcus. Sub-Optimal. garymarcus.substack.com, Oct. 1, 2022.
Gary Marcus. DeepFakes versus Deep Understanding. garymarcus.substack.com, Oct. 2, 2022.
Dan Falk. A pioneer of AI reveals what the tech is really capable of: “it’s not sentient”. Undark, Oct. 7, 2022.
Gary Marcus. 5 myths about learning and innateness. garymarcus.substack.com, Oct. 22, 2022.
Tiernan Ray. AI critic Gary Marcus: Meta's LeCun is finally coming around to the things I said years ago. ZDnet.com, Oct. 24, 2022.
Gary Marcus. What “game over” for the latest paradigm in AI might look like. garymarcus.substack.com, Oct. 29, 2022.
Gary Marcus. Bravo @ElonMusk for wanting Twitter to become the world’s “most accurate source of information”. garymarcus.substack.com, Nov. 9, 2022.
Gary Marcus. A Few Words About Bullshit. garymarcus.substack.com, Nov. 16, 2022.
Gary Marcus. How come smart assistants have virtually no ability to converse, despite all the spectacular progress with large language models? Nov. 22, 2022.
Gary Marcus. Sentience and AI: A Dialog between Gary Marcus and Blake Lemoine. garymarcus.substack.com, Nov. 23, 2022.
Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis. What does Meta AI’s Diplomacy-winning Cicero Mean for AI?. garymarcus.substack.com, Nov. 25, 2022.
Gary Marcus. How come GPT can seem so brilliant one minute and so breathtakingly dumb the next? garymarcus.substack.com, Dec. 1, 2022.
Gary Marcus. AI’s Jurassic Park moment. garymarcus.substack.com, Dec. 10, 2022.
Gary Marcus. What to Expect When You’re Expecting … GPT-4. garymarcus.substack.com, Dec. 25, 2022.
Gary Marcus. Is ChatGPT Really a “Code Red” for Google Search? garymarcus.substack.com, Dec. 30, 2022.
Gary Marcus. An epic AI Debate—and why everyone should be at least a little bit worried about AI going into 2023. garymarcus.substack.com, Dec. 31, 2022.
Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis. Large Language Models like ChatGPT say The Darnedest Things. garymarcus.substack.com, Jan. 9, 2023.
Gary Marcus. Is Microsoft about to get the deal of the century? Or is Sam Altman unloading OpenAI at just the right time? garymarcus.substack.com, Jan. 11, 2023.
Gary Marcus. Scientists, please don’t let your chatbots grow up to be co-authors. garymarcus.substack.com, Jan. 13, 2023.
Gary Marcus. 24 Seriously Embarrassing Hours for AI. garymarcus.substack.com, Jan. 18, 2023.
Gary Marcus. AGI will not happen in your lifetime. Or will it? garymarcus.substack.com, Jan. 22, 2023.
Gary Marcus. The CNET Fake News Fiasco, Autopilot, and the Uncanny Cognitive Valley. garymarcus.substack.com, Jan. 31, 2023.
Gary Marcus. Gaslighting and reality in AI. garymarcus.substack.com, Feb. 1, 2023.
Gary Marcus. The threat of automated misinformation is only getting worse. garymarcus.substack.com, Feb. 28, 2023.
Gary Marcus. Don’t Go Breaking My Heart. garymarcus.substack.com, Feb. 22, 2023.
Gary Marcus. What did they know, and when did they know it? The Microsoft Bing edition. garymarcus.substack.com, Feb. 21, 2023.
Gary Marcus. David beats Go-liath. garymarcus.substack.com, Feb. 18, 2023.
Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis. How Not to Test GPT-3. garymarcus.substack.com, Feb. 17, 2023.
Gary Marcus. Smells a little bit like AI winter? garymarcus.substack.com, Feb. 16, 2023.
Gary Marcus. Two frightening things before breakfast. garymarcus.substack.com, Feb. 16, 2023.
Gary Marcus. The rise and fall of Microsoft’s new Bing. garymarcus.substack.com, Feb. 15, 2023.
Gary Marcus. What Google Should Really Be Worried About. garymarcus.substack.com, Feb. 12, 2023.
Gary Marcus. Inside the Heart of ChatGPT’s Darkness. garymarcus.substack.com, Feb. 11, 2023.
Gary Marcus. Oops! How Google bombed, while doing pretty much exactly the same thing as Microsoft did, with similar results. garymarcus.substack.com, Feb. 9, 2023.
Gary Marcus. Some things @GaryMarcus might say. garymarcus.substack.com, Feb. 4, 2023.
Gary Marcus. Happy Groundhog Day, The AI Edition. garymarcus.substack.com, Feb. 2, 2023.
Gary Marcus. Gaslighting and reality in AI. garymarcus.substack.com, Feb. 1, 2023.
Gary Marcus. The Road To AI We Can Trust substack.