Gary Marcus
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“Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us” (2024)
Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us
“Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust” (2019)
Despite the hype surrounding AI, creating an intelligence that rivals or exceeds human levels is far more complicated than we have been led to believe. Professors Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis have spent their careers at the forefront of AI research and have witnessed some of the greatest milestones in the field, but they argue that a computer beating a human in Jeopardy! does not signal that we are on the doorstep of fully autonomous cars or superintelligent machines. The achievements in the field thus far have occurred in closed systems with fixed sets of rules, and these approaches are too narrow to achieve genuine intelligence. The real world, in contrast, is wildly complex and open-ended. How can we bridge this gap? What will the consequences be when we do? Taking inspiration from the human mind, Marcus and Davis explain what we need to advance AI to the next level, and suggest that if we are wise along the way, we won't need to worry about a future of machine overlords. If we focus on endowing machines with common sense and deep understanding, rather than simply focusing on statistical analysis and gatherine ever larger collections of data, we will be able to create an AI we can trust—in our homes, our cars, and our doctors' offices. Rebooting AI provides a lucid, clear-eyed assessment of the current science and offers an inspiring vision of how a new generation of AI can make our lives better.
“The Future of the Brain: Essays by the World's Leading Neuroscientists” (2014)
The Future of the Brain: Essays by the World's Leading Neuroscientists
“Guitar Zero: The Science of Becoming Musical at Any Age” (2012)
Guitar Zero: The Science of Becoming Musical at Any Age
“The Algebraic Mind: Integrating Connectionism and Cognitive Science (Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change)” (2001)
The Algebraic Mind: Integrating Connectionism and Cognitive Science (Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change)
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