It's Gary Marcus, again, as always and as ever, criticizing other people's work as "machines that manipulate data but aren't really intelligent."

He's been on HN many times before, always criticizing the same things:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

As far as I know, all he's ever done is criticize, without ever delving into the mathematical details.

To understand those who disagree with him, read "The Bitter Lesson" by Rich Sutton:

http://incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

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EDITS: Modified and rearranged sentences to reflect more accurately what I meant to write the first time around.