That was an interesting substack article. I'm not super deep into the AI stuff and never heard of Gary Marcus. I agree that they went to scaling LLMs first because 1 - it's easier to scale vs tie in new ways of doing things and 2 - companies like Nvidia were in line to make a ton of money as crypto mining started to fall out of favor and real-time ray tracing wasn't giving them as big of advantage as they hoped.
They are still making a ton of dough!
Some of them will literally "see the light."
These aren't serious people.
I didn't look at it this way at all, but you're absolutely right.
I do find it strange I only found one mention of Taliban here: https://www.state.gov/foreign-terrorist-organizations/
Designated in 2010. Probably because exactly what you said. The historical mess.
Aren't they recognized as a terrorist group vs a government? I'm guessing legitimacy is the main issue here.
It doesn't matter. The points are made up. I joined a big one (lemmy.world) hoping it will be less likely to disappear so I don't have to make another account again. GG!
Any alternatives? Lately I just send links to ChatGPT and ask for detailed summaries