I'm not sure, can you really be taken seriously without sleazy marketing ploys? Who cares what the boffins warn about? (Or we'd not have global warning.) But when you are huxtered by one of your own peers, it hurts more!

Marketing isn't a sin. It's necessary. Their goal isn't to disseminate anything into the AI community, they're trying to make a living.

>Marketing isn't a sin. It's necessary.

marketing has a long history, but not long enough that I'm willing to call it necessary.

air & water is necessary, food is necessary.

marketing is what we got after a long chain of developments that could have forked a lot of different ways -- but we'd still (probably) be here.