I chose a walk with Gary Marcus, AI’s loudest critic
This story initially appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox initially, register here Gary Marcus satisfies me outside the post workplace of Vancouver's Granville Island using neon-coral tennis shoes and a blue Arc'teryx coat. I'm in town for a household thing, and Marcus has actually resided in the city because 2018, after 20 years in New York City. "I simply discover it to be paradise," he informs me, as I join him on his day-to-day walk around Granville Island and neighboring Kitsilano Beach. We've accepted stroll and speak about-- what else-- the present state of AI. "I'm depressed about it," he informs me. "When I entered into this field, it was not so that we might have an enormous turnover of wealth from artists to huge corpor...