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I don't think Gary Marcus is a grifter. I'm more skeptical of regulation than he is, but that aside, I think he makes lots of good observations about the limitations of Deep Learning models.

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Well done (as usual), Devansh. I just want to add a small factoid that strikes me as unusual, and which may suggest Elon has been playing “the long con” with LLMs from the get-go. First, nobody who knows Musk believes he ever worries, or has ever worried, even for one hour, that AI is a danger to anything but Tesla’s FSD aspirations. IT’S ALL KIBUKI THETER!

And here’s the factoid I believe adds “some” credibility to thus view:

-When I purchased my 2018 Model 3, I was astonished at how incredibly good the car’s voice recognition (“V-R”) system worked. There was, and remains, ZERO comparison to Alexa, Siri, or GoogleVoice - it blows them all out of the water. I had to ask myself, “why isn’t Tesla making billions just by licensing the V-R to the other big tech companies?

DUH! He’s probably sitting on the best AI that exists, and before he offers to sell any of it, he’s having the last laugh by scamming Altman into “thinking” he (Altman) took over OpenAI and “threw Elon out”.

Right, like the man-child Altman is even capable of building workable GPTs. He’s not - Chat-GPT, especially the numbered versions, are really close to useless, and yet now, Altman is running around like “Chicken Little” warning the world about “Alt-Net” taking over the earth. MARKETING 101…HA HA!!! So Musk invents the transformer model (this is true, btw), but leaves only the dumb half at OpenAI and uses the “smart” system for V-R in his products (EVs).

Then he covinces idiot-boy Altman to run around hyping the “existential threat of AI”, hoping to create regulatory capture for side-stepping indemnity issues, which benefits who the most? TESLA, for FSD. BRILLIANT!

If my “conspiracy theory” is correct, then within one year, Grok (which likely existed by 2016, but has been trading on data the entire time) comes out and blows away all other GPTs. Musk not only gets richer (like he cares, anyways), but in one fell swoop:

- becomes indistinguishable market leader in GPTs

- all but puts Google and especially OpenAI+MS out of the AI market for another 10 years,

and, best of all,

- admits AI is just another form of social media, is no threat to anybody, and OWNS the biggest market of them all; AI THAT ACTUALLY WORKS (at least a little).

Like I said…BRILLIANT!!!

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