I doubt much good will come from this thread. It's the daily rehash of "AI yay or nay? Gary Marcus yay or nay? Discuss!"
You're right and I bit. I'll try to hold back next time. And there will be a next time.
> but I think it is better to look at what is happening from the perspective of of commerce. Anthropic is a business... I suspect the real move here is simply, as it so often is, to hype the product — basically by saying, hey, look at how smart our product is, it’s so smart we need to give it rights.
Exactly this. It's not true, but it's a clever marketing move.
Well it's certainly a marketing move. I'm not convinced that it's clever.
He's right, but since he's Gary Marcus, he's totally biased, so I don't bother to read his rants.
They will do anything and say anything to keep the grift going