Gary Marcus

Accomplishments

• Co-founded Geometric Intelligence in 2014; Uber acquired it in 2016 to form Uber AI Labs.¹
• Directed Uber's AI research arm after the acquisition.¹
• NYU professor of psychology and neural science at the time Geometric Intelligence was founded.¹

Geometric Intelligence and Uber AI Labs

Geometric Intelligence was founded in 2014 by Gary Marcus (then NYU professor of psychology and neural science), Zoubin Ghahramani, Kenneth Stanley, and Douglas Bemis, and incubated at NYU Tandon's Data Future Lab. Uber acquired the company in December 2016 as part of creating Uber AI Labs, with Marcus serving as director of Uber's new AI research arm.¹

Public commentary

Marcus writes and speaks publicly about artificial intelligence reliability, safety, and scientific standards, including through garymarcus.com and related essays.²

Timeline

1. 2014Marcus co-founded Geometric Intelligence.¹
2. Dec 2016Uber acquired Geometric Intelligence; Marcus became director of Uber AI Labs.¹

Documented roles

The sources do not confirm a current role; these are the roles they document.

• Co-founder and CEO, Geometric Intelligence (2014 – 2016)¹
• Director, Uber AI Labs (2016 –)¹
• Professor of psychology and neural science (at time of Geometric Intelligence founding), New York University¹

Companies in their history

• Uber 2 people in the wiki
• NYU 13 people in the wiki

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