Gary Marcus

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1/11/2025, 5:42:02 PM
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davinci
@basedneoleo
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@GaryMarcus why?
Gary Marcus
@GaryMarcus
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@basedneoleo i am all for better incorporating causality, though i think you will need symbols as part of the package to do it right.
davinci
@basedneoleo
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25d
@GaryMarcus okay sure i'll rephrase this without the "vibes".

principled methods for tackling the fragility under distribution shifts, and consequently the poor OOD generalization of neural networks, build on top of the causality literature, particularly causal representation learning. the…
Gary Marcus
@GaryMarcus
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25d
@basedneoleo
Gary Marcus
@GaryMarcus
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25d
AI twitter used to be (at its best) about intellectual argument.

Now it’s mostly just about vibes.
davinci
@basedneoleo
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25d
@GaryMarcus there are many emerging (yes principled ones). i regret to inform u that all the most promising ones are neural not symbolic.
Gary Marcus
@GaryMarcus
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25d
This is literally a trillion dollar question: are *principled* solutions to longstanding challenges of factuality and distribution shift at last near at hand?

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