>the general argument that <ai technology> can't do <some task> and so that means it's useless and won't lead to AGI The paper isn't making that argument. The

>the general argument that <ai technology> can't do <some task> and so that means it's useless and won't lead to AGI The paper isn't making that argument. The point it makes is that parallelisable SSMs are theoretically no more powerful than transformers, contrary to some people's assumption that they'd be theoretically equivalent to RNNs and hence more efficient at certain kinds of problems.