By Gary Marcus
Publication Date: 2025-12-30 18:10:00
Happy 2026!
My award for Best AI Cartoon of 2025 (reprinted with permission) goes to…. Tom Fishburne!
His prescient 2023 cartoon on what I like to call the Fishburne Effect is a legend:
You can follow him – and order some of his collected works – at The Marketoonist website.
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And as a bonus, we want to prepare you to think critically about AI in 2026, at a time when everyone is wondering whether generative AI will do it It turned out to be an idiotHere are five essays from 2025 worth reading or rereading:
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Why LLMs just can’t stop hallucinating.
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Generalization is – and always has been – the crucial question. How Apple’s argument paper brought this back to the forefront.
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LLMs are not like you and me – and never will be.
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What world models are and why we urgently need them.
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Neurosymbolic AI will displace pure LLMs over time; Here’s why.
If the above analysis is correct, the dominance of LLMs may soon decline – and new, more informed approaches may emerge.
