So many people misremember (or never read) what I said in in 2022 in “Deep learning is hitting a wall”, which was neither about revenue or A…

So many people misremember (or never read) what I said in in 2022 in “Deep learning is hitting a wall”, which was neither about revenue or AI’s potential upper limits. Rather, it was an argument that the pure of scaling LLMs would not get us to AGI, and that we would need to start including symbolic tools and working towards neurosymbolic AI. Time has shown I was quite right about all of that, and that’s what happening now, with systems like Claude Code are neurosymbolic hybrids that leverage symbolic tools like code interpreters and harnesses written in symbolic code, etc. People ought to go back and read that paper. Despite many people mocking the title, the substance of the article was 100% correct. (Those who thought that scaling pure LLMs would be enough were wrong.)

Source: Gary Marcus (X) | 2026-05-09