I am a PhD student working in learning and autonomy space and every researcher I know thinks Gary Marcus is a joke. I'm not saying he doesn't know things, but all I am saying is machine learning at scale is not is area of expertise although he pretends it is. Period. He passes on very generic, obvious statements about the future without any details and when someone does something in that direction he claims 'I told you so!, you should have listened to me in the past!'. Look at Gary Marcus vs Yann LeCun twitter discussions and you'll know what I am talking about: https://twitter.com/GaryMarcus/status/1068897657530138629

Gary Marcus is a joke, and to me he is no different than crypto bros who grift non-experts.

Seconding reports that Gary Marcus is almost as big a waste of your time as Jurgen Schmidhuber.

Marcus has been writing some variant of exactly the same article multiple times a year for the last 15 years.