Gary Marcus on Rebooting AI Technology & Prose

Gary Marcus, Professor Emeritus at NYU and co-founder of Robust.ai, discusses his recent book Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust.
 
On this episode of Technology & Prose, Gary Marcus joins host Nikita Aggarwal to talk about the “AI chasm”— the gap between the goals and reality of artificial intelligence (1:40) GPT-3 and the limits of deep learning (4:38) how to build AI systems that have knowledge, reasoning and understanding (9:14) the politics of AI research (and more on the limits of GPT-3) (16:00) innate knowledge in machines and the need for a hybrid approach to building AI (33:25) the Montreal AI Debates, the System 1/ System 2 analogy and lessons from developmental psychology (37:04) and Gary's new venture, Robust.ai (43:15) .
 
References
Marcus, Deep Learning: a Critical Appraisal 
Goyal and Bengio, Inductive Biases for Deep Learning of Higher-Level Cognition  
LeCun, Hinton, Bengio, Deep Learning
Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow 
Montreal AI debates https://montrealartificialintelligence.com/aidebate/ ; https://montrealartificialintelligence.com/aidebate2.html 
Marcus, Guitar Zero: The Science of Learning to be Musical 
GPT-3
Open AI’s GPT-3 model 
Marcus and Davis on GPT-3 in MIT Tech Review 
Guardian article ‘written’ by GPT-3 
Yann LeCun on GPT-3 
DeepMind 
Alphafold 
Mastering the game of Go in the absence of human knowledge 
 
Recorded on January 28th 2021