Gary Marcus was wrong on scaling but prescient on neurosymbolic AI, says safety engineer
joshua_saxe · x · 2026-09-04
Joshua Saxe re-examines Gary Marcus's two signature claims: 'deep learning has hit a wall / scaling won't work' — clearly wrong — and 'we need neurosymbolic AI' — arguably prescient, since symbol-land dissolves many classical ML generalization problems. A replier accuses Marcus of retconning his predictions.
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