Mocking Gary Marcus: Are Reasoning Models Now 'Neurosymbolic'?
jachiam0 · x · 2026-08-02
A developer mocks Gary Marcus for his perceived double standards in AI discourse. Marcus has spent years criticizing pure deep learning and LLMs, advocating for neurosymbolic methods without clearly defining the research agenda.
Now that reasoning and tool-using models have become highly capable—still fundamentally LLMs wrapped in programs that call other tools—Marcus allegedly claims them as a victory for neurosymbolic approaches, while continuing to downplay the progress of the models he previously criticized.
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