alt Hacker NewsWarning- it's a Gary Marcus article. This is a guy who started out dissing LLMs to pump his own symbolic AI startup, was (likely to his surprise) hoisted on the shoulders of a mass of luddites, and has now pivoted to a career as an anti-AI influencer
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https://garymarcus.substack.com/archive?sort=new
Yeah, this guy is... something. The text form equivalent to Youtube Shorts.
He didn't "start out" when LLMs were growing or at the time he founded a symbolic AI startup.
He "started out" a lot earlier, he wrote a book in 2001 and his written 8 books in total and has publications in academic journals like Cognitive Psychology dating back to 1995.
The world didn't start when LLMs got popular.
Meh, he’s been very fairly calling out AI companies for over-promising and under-delivering, along with critiquing the idea that training LLMs on bigger data will solve AGI.
He’s vocal and perhaps sometimes annoying, but who cares. A number of his articles have made great points at times when people are loosing themselves with hype for AI. Reality is somewhere in the middle, and it’s good to have more people critiquing what AI companies are doing. Who cares if a lot of the blog posts are short and not that interesting.
I wish we would see these warnings on all articles and comments from pro-AI influencers as well.
Why do people hate on those that are anti-llm so much?
LLM people defend these tools/companies as if it were their girlfriend..
Unfortunately, that might be way more of a reality than fiction.
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Great, can't wait to balance the ultra-pro-AI views I get everyday from mainstream media, X, Hacker News, Reddit, etc.