To me neurosymbolic seems to be a mostly tribal distinction. Also Gary Marcus is just trying to make Google's achievement all about himself again because he's a narcissist. But what else is new
You are a fool, if you think it is a “a mostly tribal distinction”. You would have said same about alchemy vs chemistry, or genes as proteins vs genes as DNA. In science, the details matter.
I mean he's free to hold whatever political opinions. But yeah... he is a contrarian hater usually childish and I hate the sensationalist manner he uses to present things, everything is insanely important and we must act *NOW* and all that. Ever since he was apart that hearing at congress I now view every Gary Marcus tweet through the lens of him desperately wanting to become part of some transnational ai oversight organisation. I just hope he doesn't get any power
It seems like you mainly switched to anti-neural-network punditry. Have you thought about trying to go back to research or is that not viable for you anymore?