While it's true that it is worth being skeptical about the current deep learning/LLM boom, younger people who don't know who Gary Marcus is need to know that he

While it's true that it is worth being skeptical about the current deep learning/LLM boom, younger people who don't know who Gary Marcus is need to know that he is not really an unbiased observer here -- he has never liked neural net approaches and thinks they were a wrong turn (even though they obviously are far more successful than the older symbolic "GOFAI" methods).