I peruse her content occasionally but I wasn’t aware that she is widely recognized as the quality of her analysis/commentary varying so wildly, and often particularly lacklustre outside of her own field. Gwern mentioned that Gary Marcus has apparently said as much in the past when it comes to her coverage of AI topics. I’ll refrain from citing her as a source in the future.
I didn’t mean Marcus had said anything about Sabine. What I meant by “whose expertise has little to do with AI (nor is regarded as such like a Gary Marcus)” is that ‘a Gary Marcus’ is ‘regarded as’ having ‘expertise [much] to do with AI’ and that is why, even though Marcus has been wrong about pretty much everything and has very little genuine expertise about AI these days, ie. DL scaling (and is remarkably inept at even the most basic entry-level use of LLMs) and his writings are intrinsically not worth the time it takes to read them, he is still popular and widely-regarded-as-an-expert and so it is useful to keep tabs on ‘oh great, what’s Marcus saying now that everyone is going to repeat for years to come?’ You can read someone because they are right & informative, or you can read someone because they are wrong & uninformative but everyone else reads them; but you shouldn’t read someone who is neither right nor read. So, you grit your teeth and wade into the Marcus posts that go viral...
I peruse her content occasionally but I wasn’t aware that she is widely recognized as the quality of her analysis/commentary varying so wildly, and often particularly lacklustre outside of her own field. Gwern mentioned that Gary Marcus has apparently said as much in the past when it comes to her coverage of AI topics. I’ll refrain from citing her as a source in the future.
I didn’t mean Marcus had said anything about Sabine. What I meant by “whose expertise has little to do with AI (nor is regarded as such like a Gary Marcus)” is that ‘a Gary Marcus’ is ‘regarded as’ having ‘expertise [much] to do with AI’ and that is why, even though Marcus has been wrong about pretty much everything and has very little genuine expertise about AI these days, ie. DL scaling (and is remarkably inept at even the most basic entry-level use of LLMs) and his writings are intrinsically not worth the time it takes to read them, he is still popular and widely-regarded-as-an-expert and so it is useful to keep tabs on ‘oh great, what’s Marcus saying now that everyone is going to repeat for years to come?’ You can read someone because they are right & informative, or you can read someone because they are wrong & uninformative but everyone else reads them; but you shouldn’t read someone who is neither right nor read. So, you grit your teeth and wade into the Marcus posts that go viral...