It’s a comment about who Gary Marcus is presenting himself as
My intention is for other people to think what I believe which is Gary Marcus is a hack and has no business being listened to with respect to technical evaluation of AI because he’s not technically competent enough to do. The existence of his polemics waste everybody’s time and generally waste resources like we’re wasting right now.
His entire schtick has been as the debunker in chief of claims of AI capabilities
If you actually look at his polemics they increasingly have nothing to do with his original argument because his original argument not only is flawed but is ignorant of the technical capabilities
The guy founded two AI companies and exited one, is a researcher who is an expert on how actual human babies learns things and who has done research comparing how LLMs learn and represent language compared to humans. How much more expertise does he need to have an opinion?
What "technical competence" do you need to provide a technical evaluation, o person who is posting a comment to the "here's how I vibe-coded a fantasy football analytics service" forum? You think everyone here has a technically deep background?
