Gary Marcus
Professor of Psychology, NYU
Dr. Gary Marcus is the director of the NYU Infant Language Learning Center, and a professor of psychology at New York University. He is the author of "The Birth of the Mind," "The Algebraic Mind: Integrating Connectionism and Cognitive Science," and "Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind." Marcus's research on developmental cognitive neuroscience has been published in over forty articles in leading journals, and in 1996 he won the Robert L. Fantz award for new investigators in cognitive development.
Marcus contributed an idea to Big Think's "Dangerous Ideas" blog, suggesting that we should develop Google-like chips to implant in our brains and enhance our memory.
Why do people with bigger hands have a better vocabulary? That's one question deep learning can't answer.
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These questions can help us think more critically about new developments in artificial intelligence.
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What most people worry about when it comes to artificial intelligence likely comes from science-fiction fantasy.
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Correlation doesn't equal causation — we all know this. Well, except robots.
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