Hacker News Reader

The article definitely has issues, but to me what's relevant is where it's published. The smart money and experts without a vested interest have been well aware LLMs are an expensive dead for over a year and have been saying as much (Gary Marcus for instance). That this is starting to enter mainstream consciousness is what's newsworthy.

View on HN

Gary Marcus is just an anti-AI crank to balance out the pro-AI cranks. He's not credible.

Gary Marcus is continuously lambasted and not taken seriously

By whom? He seems highly credible to me, and his credentials check out, especially compared to hype men like Sam Altman. All youre doing is spreading FUD by an unnamed "they"

He only criticizes ai capabilities, without creating anything himself. Credentials are effectively meaningless. With every new release, he clamors for attention to prove how right he was—and always will be. That’s precisely why he lacks credibility.

He started and then sold a machine learning startup to Uber. He's also written multiple books about the construction of the human mind and he has a PhD from MIT. I would hardly call that creating nothing. He's not clamoring for attention, he's asking that AI be regulated and pointing out a lot of the glaring issues with the field.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com