Episode · Big Technology Podcast · 2025-05-07
Books mentioned on Is AI Scaling Dead? — With Gary Marcus
Gary Marcus is a cognitive scientist, author, and longtime AI skeptic. Marcus joins Big Technology to discuss whether large‑language‑model scaling is running into a wall.
Alex Kantrowitz discussed Privacy is Power by Carissa Veliz and The Ethics of Privacy and Surveillance by Carissa Véliz. Gary Marcus discussed Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Privacy is Power
Discussed“I read a great book called uh privacy and power I'm blanking slightly on the title by Carissa Viz um and she had examples in there like people were taking data from Grinder and extorting people”
Where to get it
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The Ethics of Privacy and Surveillance
Discussed“I read a great book called uh privacy and power I'm blanking slightly on the title by Carissa Viz um and she had examples in there like people were taking data from Grinder and extorting people”
Where to get it
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman is a popular science book exploring behavioral economics, cognitive biases, and the dual systems that drive human thought.
Discussed“So a lot of people will have read Danny Conorman's book thinking fast and slow and there he talked about system one and system two cognition. So system one was fast and automatic reflexive.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Rebooting AI
“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”
Plugged Taming Silicon Valley
“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”