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Why reporting estimated COVID-19 infections rather than just confirmed cases might save lives

Day after day we see startling and quickly rising numbers of confirmed COVID-19 infections. They’re scary. But the true scope of the…

Apr 4, 2020

Why reporting *estimated* COVID-19 infections rather than just confirmed cases might save lives

Apr 4, 2020

Asymptomatic transmission changes everything.

Throughout much of the world, politicians have been slow to react to COVID-19, often starting with half measures, and typically getting to…

Mar 22, 2020

Asymptomatic transmission changes everything.

Mar 22, 2020

Deep learning, science, engineering, research, and terminology

A Dialogue between Yoshua Bengio and Gary Marcus

Jan 1, 2020

Jan 1, 2020

A research program is not a set of techniques: A brief response to Yoshua Bengio’s December 26…

Dear Yoshua,

Dec 27, 2019

Dec 27, 2019

Bengio-Marcus AI Debate Post Mortem, Part I: The Deep Learning Pivot

important update, December 29, 2019: the piece below apparently led some people to think I was challenging Yoshua’s integrity.

Dec 26, 2019

Bengio-Marcus AI Debate Post Mortem, Part I: The Deep Learning Pivot

Dec 26, 2019

The current state of AI and Deep Learning: A reply to Yoshua Bengio

Dear Yoshua,

Oct 12, 2019

The current state of AI and Deep Learning: A reply to Yoshua Bengio

Oct 12, 2019

The deepest problem with deep learning

Some reflections on an accidental Twitterstorm, the future of AI and deep learning, and what happens when you confuse a schoolbus with a…

Dec 1, 2018

The deepest problem with deep learning

Dec 1, 2018

Bengio v Marcus, and the Past, Present and Future of Neural Network Models of Language

The Past

Oct 29, 2018

Bengio v Marcus, and the Past, Present and Future of Neural Network Models of Language

Oct 29, 2018

DeepMind’s misleading campaign against innateness

DeepMind’s new paper on learning a “machine theory of mind” is fascinating, but it again makes a philosophical error that has become…

Feb 25, 2018

DeepMind’s misleading campaign against innateness

Feb 25, 2018

In defense of skepticism about deep learning

“All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.”

Jan 14, 2018

In defense of skepticism about deep learning

Jan 14, 2018

Gary Marcus

Gary Marcus

CEO & Founder Robust.AI; co-author (with Ernest Davis) Rebooting.AI. Also proud dad, Founder of Geometric Intelligence, acquired by Uber, & Emeritus Prof., NYU.

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