Rebooting AI

Abstract:
A review of recent advances in AI, and why, despite genuine progress, we may not be on the right track towards general AI, followed by some very tentative discussion about what might be better.


Bio:
Gary Marcus, scientist, bestselling author, and entrepreneur was CEO and Founder of the machine learning startup Geometric Intelligence, recently acquired by Uber.

As a Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at NYU, he has published extensively in fields ranging from human and animal behavior to neuroscience, genetics, and artificial intelligence, often in leading journals such as Science and Nature.