Honestly he's a bit over the top, but the thing he gets right is that he's constantly hammering on the insane financial incentives that everyone in the AI industry has to keep the music going.
Despite the ridiculous amount of capital being spent, the AI industry is still essentially in its startup phase, incubated in the fake-it-till-you-make-it Silicon Valley startup culture. The entire economy has been taken along for the ride. Failure is not an option.
So when the big AI players make extraordinary claims with limited evidence, or when things don't quite add up (like the HuggingFace incident), yet everything somehow seems to lead to "AI is even more powerful than we thought!", I think it's sensible to be skeptical until proven otherwise.
Zitron consistently presents the skeptic case, and many cases the hypotheses he's putting out there seem more plausible than the "official" AI narrative. Simple as that.
Honestly he's a bit over the top, but the thing he gets right is that he's constantly hammering on the insane financial incentives that everyone in the AI industry has to keep the music going.
Despite the ridiculous amount of capital being spent, the AI industry is still essentially in its startup phase, incubated in the fake-it-till-you-make-it Silicon Valley startup culture. The entire economy has been taken along for the ride. Failure is not an option.
So when the big AI players make extraordinary claims with limited evidence, or when things don't quite add up (like the HuggingFace incident), yet everything somehow seems to lead to "AI is even more powerful than we thought!", I think it's sensible to be skeptical until proven otherwise.
Zitron consistently presents the skeptic case, and many cases the hypotheses he's putting out there seem more plausible than the "official" AI narrative. Simple as that.