For 30 years people have told Gary Marcus that abstract reasoning and variable binding will emerge from neural nets.
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The claim is about what people have said to Marcus personally over 30 years, which only his own records could settle.
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Gary Marcus, “For 30 years people have told Gary Marcus that abstract reasoning and variable binding will emerge from neural nets.” (said 2025). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_30fd700e327b, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_30fd700e327b
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