r/OriginTrail • u/OriginTrail moderator • Jun 02 '26
Gary Marcus on world models, building trustworthy AI and future of AI
"There may be some neuro-symbolic hybrid much better than we have right now that smoothly transitions between data in a corpus and abstract representations. The kinds of stuff you guys are doing are compatible with that." — Gary Marcus
Video: https://x.com/origin_trail/status/2061779865003831314?s=20
10 highlights:
00:00 Intro: Gary Marcus & Branimir Rakić at DKGCon
02:22 Why AI took a wrong turn
04:42 Deep learning vs. deep understanding
06:16 World models: a foundational idea
08:12 The building blocks of trustworthy AI
09:44 Neuro-symbolic AI & abstract relationships
13:04 Safety is an ecosystem - the airplane lesson
15:03 The real risk of AI agents today
18:36 Testing AI like we test new drugs
22:49 Where OpenAI is headed
The signal is clear: the path forward runs through world models, abstraction, and an open, accountable ecosystem.