Gary Marcus

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One Model, Hundreds of Tasks: Multimodal Transformer Performs Over 600 Different Tasks
Gary Marcus

One Model, Hundreds of Tasks: Multimodal Transformer Performs Over 600 Different Tasks

Researchers took a step toward achieving a longstanding goal: One model that performs a whole lot of very different tasks. Scott Reed, Konrad Żołna, Emilio Parisotto and a team at DeepMind announced Gato.

May 18, 20222 min read
One Model, Hundreds of Tasks: Multimodal Transformer Performs Over 600 Different Tasks
Gary Marcus

One Model, Hundreds of Tasks: Multimodal Transformer Performs Over 600 Different Tasks

Researchers took a step toward achieving a longstanding goal: One model that performs a whole lot of very different tasks. Scott Reed, Konrad Żołna, Emilio Parisotto and a team at DeepMind announced Gato.

May 18, 20222 min read
A Smoldering Conflict Flares: The debate between AI symbolism and connectionism, explained
Gary Marcus

A Smoldering Conflict Flares: The debate between AI symbolism and connectionism, explained

A year-long Twitter feud breathed fresh life into a decades-old argument over AI’s direction. Gary Marcus, a standard bearer of logic-based AI, waged a tireless Twitter campaign to knock deep learning off its pedestal and promote other AI approaches.

December 24, 20192 min read
A Smoldering Conflict Flares: The debate between AI symbolism and connectionism, explained
Gary Marcus

A Smoldering Conflict Flares: The debate between AI symbolism and connectionism, explained

A year-long Twitter feud breathed fresh life into a decades-old argument over AI’s direction. Gary Marcus, a standard bearer of logic-based AI, waged a tireless Twitter campaign to knock deep learning off its pedestal and promote other AI approaches.

December 24, 20192 min read
DeepMind Results Raise Questions
Gary Marcus

DeepMind Results Raise Questions

Alphabet subsidiary DeepMind lost $572 million in the past year, and its losses over the last three years amounted to more than $1 billion. AI contrarian Gary Marcus used the news as an opportunity to question the direction of AI as an industry.

August 21, 20192 min read
DeepMind Results Raise Questions
Gary Marcus

DeepMind Results Raise Questions

Alphabet subsidiary DeepMind lost $572 million in the past year, and its losses over the last three years amounted to more than $1 billion. AI contrarian Gary Marcus used the news as an opportunity to question the direction of AI as an industry.

August 21, 20192 min read

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