Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) says AI doomers are practically a marketing arm for the AI companies, and without them Dario Amodei and Sam Altman wouldn't have the kind of funding they do: "The so-called doomers who are most concerned that we might literally go extinct, I didn't fully spell out the argument for why I don't believe it, but those guys are practically like a marketing arm for the AI companies." "Each time the doomers run around and say, oh my God, this technology is so powerful, we're all going to die, a whole bunch of investors are like, powerful?" "How much can my allocation be?" "Remember, the doomers need to raise money too, right?" "And the more that they can terrify people, the more money they raise." "And that falls into the hands of people like Dario and Sam." "If we hadn't had the doomers, I don't think that Dario and Sam would have the kind of funding they do. I really don't." "If there's a continuum between like people like me who are pretty cynical about the current technology and people who really hype it up, the doomers are always on the hype it up side, always." - Gary Marcus, AI critic and author of Taming Silicon Valley, on The Real Eisman Playbook, published October 12.