Gary Marcus pushes back on Sabine Hossenfelder's claim that AI is the way forward for science
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-10-19
Sabine Hossenfelder argued that the correct description of nature will eventually be too complicated for humans to understand, and that AI is the way forward for scientific progress. Gary Marcus replied that AI with deep causal understanding — which we currently lack — is the missing piece, crystallizing the ongoing divide between AI-accelerated-science optimism and skepticism about current models' reasoning limits.
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