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Uh, Marcus doesn't "claim to be a scientist", he is a scientist. He has a PhD from MIT in cognitive science and was a professor at NYU. Altman is one the makin
by iainctduncan 2y ago
Uh, Marcus doesn't "claim to be a scientist", he is a scientist. He has a PhD from MIT in cognitive science and was a professor at NYU.
Altman is one the making bullshit claims left right and centre.
- janalsncm 2y agoThe point is that being a scientist doesn’t make everything one says science. He doesn’t even attempt to, anyways. There are actual researchers measuring the performance of these LLMs on various tasks, which is science. And then there is self-aggrandizing Substack posts with selective callbacks to vague claims, and goalpost moving for the rest. The counterpunch to hype man bs isn’t more bs stating the opposite.
- iainctduncan 2y agoNo, that was not the point the post made. The point was to slag Marcus with an unsubstantiated insinuation that he's not a scientist. Revise all you like, it's bullshit.
- janalsncm 2y agoQuoting myself > but I don’t see any of that hard work in what he writes I didn’t say he wasn’t a scientist. I said his pontifications aren’t backed by the hard work of doing real research.