Book · 2019 · Science
Rebooting AI
Rebooting AI by Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis has been mentioned in 2 episodes across 2 podcasts (0 episodes recommend it and 2 episodes discuss it), through . Most frequently brought up by Ezra Klein (1 episode) and Gary Marcus (1 episode) on Big Technology Podcast (1 episode) and The Ezra Klein Show (1 episode).
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But it it's astounding that it works well enough that everybody can now for example vividly see what semantic search would be like like in 2019 in rebooting AI Ernie Davis and I wrote about semantic search.
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Because you have a nice question that you ask someone rebooting AI.
Ezra Klein The Ezra Klein Show · Feb 2023 Why people recommend it
Rebooting AI by Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis is a critical examination of contemporary artificial intelligence, arguing that current machine learning models lack genuine understanding and true common sense. Gary Marcus discussed the book on the Big Technology Podcast, reflecting on how recent advancements in large language models made semantic search tangible, a concept he and Davis had explored in writing back in 2019. Ezra Klein also brought up the volume on The Ezra Klein Show during a skeptical conversation about the artificial intelligence revolution, utilizing specific questions from the book to test the limitations of new chatbot systems. Klein and Marcus further debated the themes of the publication, touching upon the necessity of scientific rigor and the importance of applying proper confidence intervals when evaluating technological claims. The discussions framed the book as an essential counterweight to tech industry hype, emphasizing that robust artificial intelligence requires foundational reasoning capabilities rather than mere pattern recognition and statistical extrapolation from vast datasets.
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Ezra Klein because you have a nice question that you ask someone rebooting AI 1
“because you have a nice question that you ask someone rebooting AI”
“you know as a scientist I always want to put confidence intervals around things anyway”
Gary Marcus but it it's astounding that it works well enough that everybody can now for example vividly see what semant… 1
“but it it's astounding that it works well enough that everybody can now for example vividly see what semantic search would be like like in 2019 in rebooting AI Ernie Davis and I wrote about semantic search”
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“So people might want to read uh my last two books by the way. Taming Silicon Valley which is really about how to regulate AI and rebooting AI which was 2019 is a little bit old but still I think anticipates a lot of the problems around common sense and world models”
“we're back here on big technology podcast with Blake Lemoine the ex Google engineer who's concluded that the company's Lambda chatbot sentient and Gary Marcus who's an academic author and he wrote rebooting AI”
“so in rebooting AI we have the example of you ask a robot to tidy up your room”
“Gary Marcus is the author of Rebooting AI. He's one of the most influential voices in the AI field, the founder of Geometric Intelligence”
“Gary Marcus is with us. He's the author of Rebooting AI and founder of Geometric Intelligence, which was acquired by Uber.”
“So, just to shout out, the book is called Rebooting AI, available everywhere. And people can go get your Substack”