Gary Marcus
Cognitive scientist; vocal AI skeptic on hallucination, reasoning, and the limits of scale.
Cognitive scientist; vocal AI skeptic on hallucination, reasoning, and the limits of scale.
Gary Marcus identifies this as a foundational text that taught him about intellectual humility.
“I first read that passage over 30 years ago, and it and the polar bears stuck with me ever since, both as an important lesson about intellectual humility and about the value in learning about other fields beyond one’s own expertise.”
