Gary Marcus mocks AI boom: "that's what they said in the tulip craze!"
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-10-29
Quoting the take "It's hard to blame people for dancing while the music is playing," Gary Marcus replies: "what they said in the tulip craze!" — extending his long-running AI-bubble stance by likening today's AI investment fever to the 17th-century tulip mania, where "dance while the music plays" was the classic top-of-the-boom rationalization.
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