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!"

> 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.

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

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