Gary Marcus is a cognitive scientist, author, and AI critic who has spent 25 years arguing that deep learning alone cannot produce genuine intelligence. A NYU professor emeritus, founder of Geometric Intelligence (acquired by Uber), and co-founder of Robust.AI with Rodney Brooks, he runs the Substack newsletter 'Marcus on AI' with over 103,000 subscribers. His books 'Rebooting AI' and 'Taming Silicon Valley' are essential texts for understanding what current AI systems can and cannot do. He testified before the U.S. Senate alongside Sam Altman in May 2023, calling for strict AI regulation.
Wayne Chang is a Taiwanese-American serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and technologist who co-founded Crashlytics (acquired by Twitter for ~$260M, then sold to Google as Fabric), co-founded Digits (AI-powered fintech for SMBs), and is currently building Reasoner, a neurosymbolic AI company claiming to outperform OpenAI's o1 models. Named one of Forbes' Top 50 Angel Investors with 80+ investments and 31+ exits generating over $150 billion in combined value, Chang also holds the coveted @wayne Twitter handle, holds 20+ patents, won an Emmy for producing Chasing Coral, and helped launch Dropbox by recruiting co-founder Arash Ferdowsi.