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Gary Marcus (Gary Fred Marcus) was born on 8 February, 1970 in Baltimore, Maryland, US, is an American cognitive scientist. Discover Gary Marcus's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 54 years old?

Popular As Gary Fred Marcus
Occupation cognitive scientist, author
Age 54 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 8 February 1970
Birthday 8 February
Birthplace Baltimore, Maryland, US
Nationality United States

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1970

Gary Fred Marcus (born 8 February 1970) is an American psychologist, cognitive scientist, and author, known for his research on the intersection of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence (AI).

Marcus is professor emeritus of psychology and neural science at New York University.

2001

In his first book, The Algebraic Mind (2001), Marcus challenged the idea that the mind might consist of largely undifferentiated neural networks.

He argued that understanding the mind would require integrating connectionism with classical ideas about symbol-manipulation.

2004

One of his books, The Birth of the Mind (2004), describes from a nativist perspective the ways that genes can influence cognitive development, and aims to Reconcile nativism with common anti-nativist arguments advanced by other academics.

He discusses how a small number of genes account for the intricate human brain, common false impressions of genes, and the problems they may cause for the future of genetic engineering.

In a review, Mameli and Papineau argue that the theory expounded in the book is "more sophisticated than any version of nativism on the market", but that in attempting to rebut anti-nativist arguments, Marcus "ends up reconfiguring the nativist position out of existence", prompting Mameli and Papineau to conclude that the nativist-anti-nativist framing should "be abandoned".

Marcus is a notable critic of the "hype" surrounding artificial intelligence.

He has called for regulation of AI, increased AI literacy among the public, and "well-funded public thinktanks" to consider potential AI risks.

He has also argued that AI is currently being deployed prematurely, particularly in situations that involve a risk of real-world harm resulting from bias, as with facial recognition or résumé parsing, since current deep-learning techniques are not amenable to formal verification for correctness.

Marcus has described current large language models as "approximations to [...] language use rather than language understanding".

On 29 March 2023, Marcus and other researchers signed an open letter calling for a moratorium on "the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4" until proper safeguards can be implemented, primarily citing the short-term risks of "mediocre AI that is unreliable [...] but widely deployed".

2005

Marcus edited The Norton Psychology Reader (2005), including selections by cognitive scientists on modern science of the human mind.

2012

Marcus's book, Guitar Zero (2012), explores the process of taking up a musical instrument as an adult.

2014

In 2014 he founded Geometric Intelligence, a machine learning company later acquired by Uber.

His books include Guitar Zero and Kluge.

Marcus was born into a Jewish family in Baltimore, Maryland.

He developed an early fascination with artificial intelligence and began coding at a young age.

Marcus majored in cognitive science at Hampshire College.

He continued on to graduate school at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he conducted research on negative evidence in language acquisition and regularization (and over-regularization) in children's acquisition of grammatical morphology.

During his PhD studies, he was mentored by Steven Pinker.

With Jeremy Freeman he co-edited The Future of the Brain: Essays by the World's Leading Neuroscientists (2014).

Marcus belongs to the school of thought of psychological nativism.

2015

In 2015 Marcus co-founded a machine-learning startup, Geometric Intelligence.

2016

When Geometric Intelligence was acquired by Uber in December 2016, he became the director of Uber's AI efforts, but left the company in March 2017.

2019

In 2019 Marcus launched the startup, Robust.AI, with Rodney Brooks, iRobot co-founder and co-inventor of the Roomba.

Robust.AI aims to build an "off-the-shelf" machine-learning platform for adoption in autonomous robots, similar to the way video-game engines can be adopted by third-party game developers.

Marcus's early work focused on why children produce over-regularizations, such as "breaked" and "goed", as a test case for the nature of mental rules.