--- title: "Gary Marcus · New York University — author profile and papers" description: "Gary Marcus, New York University: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2015–2020), h-index 43 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gary-marcus/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gary-marcus/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Gary Marcus # Gary Marcus Gary Marcus has 3 papers in our library, in 2015–2020, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Ernest Davis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ernest-davis/). 3 papers in our library · 2015–2020 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5110126701) · [**h-index 43**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5110126701) · [207 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5110126701) · [10,117 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5110126701&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gary-marcus/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 199 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gary-marcus/cited-by/) · [4 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #2105](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/22/#star-2105) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Gary+Marcus) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Gary+Marcus) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Gary+Marcus) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Gary+Marcus) ## Affiliations [🎓**New York University** New York · United States 1998–2026 · 96 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university/) · [🎓**University of Massachusetts Amherst** Amherst Center · United States 1994–1997 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-massachusetts-amherst/) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 1992–1995 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 2 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Artificial intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/artificial-intelligence/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gary-marcus/year/2020/) ### 2010s [**2018** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gary-marcus/year/2018/) · [**2015** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gary-marcus/year/2015/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Commonsense Reasoning and Commonsense Knowledge in Artificial Intelligence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/davis-2015-commonsense-reasoning-commonsense-knowledge-artificial/)** *(2015 · 508 citations)* This is a survey article on commonsense reasoning and knowledge about the everyday world, one of the oldest problems in artificial intelligence and one where progress has been slowest. 2. **[Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/marcus-2018-deep-learning-critical-appraisal/)** *(2018 · 417 citations)* This position paper by Gary Marcus examines deep learning about five years after its 2012 revival, which was sparked by the ImageNet convolutional network of Krizhevsky, Sutskever and Hinton. 3. **[The Next Decade in AI: Four Steps Towards Robust Artificial Intelligence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/marcus-2020-next-decade-ai-four/)** *(2020 · 332 citations)* Marcus argues that a decade of progress built on generic learning algorithms, ever-bigger datasets and more compute has not produced AI that behaves dependably outside its training conditions. ## All works 7 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Commonsense Reasoning and Commonsense Knowledge in Artificial Intelligence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/davis-2015-commonsense-reasoning-commonsense-knowledge-artificial/) [Communications of the ACM](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/communications-of-the-acm/)**Ernest Davis, Gary Marcus*2015 · 508 citations* 2. [**Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal arXiv:1801.00631**Gary Marcus*2018 · 417 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/marcus-2018-deep-learning-critical-appraisal/) 3. [**The Next Decade in AI: Four Steps Towards Robust Artificial Intelligence arXiv:2002.06177**Gary Marcus*2020 · 332 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/marcus-2020-next-decade-ai-four/) 4. **[A Review of Winograd Schema Challenge Datasets and Approaches ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13831) arXiv:2004.13831 · no summary yet**Vid Kocijan et al.*2020 · 35 citations* 5. **[Getting from Generative AI to Trustworthy AI: What LLMs might learn from Cyc ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04445) arXiv:2308.04445 · no summary yet**Doug Lenat, Gary Marcus*2023 · 25 citations* 6. **[A Gentle Introduction to Deep Nets and Opportunities for the Future ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-tutorials.1/) Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Tutorial Abstracts · no summary yet**Kenneth Church et al.*2022 · 8 citations* 7. **[A Definition of AGI ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.18212) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Dan Hendrycks et al.*2025 · 6 citations* ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ernest Davis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ernest-davis/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Communications of the ACM](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/communications-of-the-acm/): [Communications of the ACM 2015](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/communications-of-the-acm/2015/) - Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Tutorial Abstracts ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 199 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [32 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gary-marcus/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026