> The author, for whatever reason, views it as a foregone conclusion that every dollar spent in this way is a waste of time and resources
This is a strawman, the author at no point says that “every dollar is a waste.”
He quite literally says that the dollars spent on scaling LLMs in the past few years are a waste.
Yes and you’re portraying it as “every dollar was wasted” and then arguing against that exaggerated claim which was never made.
It is one thing to say that OpenAI has overpromised on revenues in the short term and another to say that the entire experiment was a waste of time because it hasn't led to AGI, which is quite literally the stance that Marcus has taken in this article.