Great comment! I didn't see Wolfram's OP as being bearish on the "naive" scaling hypothesis, but more as him being a bit upset and jealous about ChatGPT recently getting so much attention. Maybe he's a bit scared too about what future improvements to ChatGPT-like models could do to his business. In any case, I think his proposal of combining the two approaches makes a lot of sense in the near term, as I wrote here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34329654
Weird - I thought his post was very kind to the work of OpenAI and was extremely balanced in how it weighed the two approaches against each other. It seems like with Wolfram there is always a lot of people who presume the worst intentions.
> him being a bit upset and jealous about ChatGPT recently getting so much attention.
Was it given away by the fact that he couldn't wait a single paragraph before claiming to have not one but two successes on the scale of ChatGPT? Stephen Wolfram is consistent if anything.
