> The research is unimpressive, the bubble is dangerous, the product is stupid, and the tech doesn't matter as much as it is claimed to.
No. Why are you sane-washing him? That’s not what he said.
> everything I am describing is unfathomably dangerous
> I refuse to sit here and pretend that any of this matters.
He is very clearly saying two mutually exclusive things in the same article. He wants you to believe that AI is pathetic and useless, and he wants you to believe it’s unfathomably dangerous.
This is not the writing of somebody who has taken a cold, hard look at the facts and is trying to inform people. This is the writing of somebody who wants to make as many people despise AI as possible and is stringing together as many anti-AI positions as he can even though they cannot form a coherent, rational position together.
The first paragraph reads to me, clearly, as what he is trying to convey, and the latter was simple enough for me to break down into what the previous commenter suggested.
In any case, I just said I know him personally and he does take a cold, hard look at the facts, so that's that!