Gary Marcus has never built anything, has never contributed meaningful to any research that actually produces value, nor has he been right about any of his criticisms.
What he has done is continually move a goalpost to stay somewhat relevant in the blogsphere and presumably the academic world.
And I never took biology past sophomore year and yet I knew the first time I listened to Aubrey De Grey he was wrong to propose millennians (living to be 1,000+) had already been born (as of 2005).
What he has done is continually move a goalpost to stay somewhat relevant in the blogsphere and presumably the academic world.