The sources that this article cites have aged very badly and the author doesn't seem to have noticed this

"But, just as happened with nanotech, the wind appears to be going out of the sales of “AI.” Some researchers suggest that we may be entering a new “AI Winter,” a period of decreased funding in the area, or at least an “AI Autumn,” as exuberance for the technology fades and expectations come back to earth." (written in 2021! from the cited Lee Vinsel Medium article)

"ChatGPT is nothing more than souped-up autocomplete, [so] why are so many people convinced that it’s actually “understanding” and “reasoning”?" - the cited Emily M. Bender book, written last year

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matherial an hour ago | parent | next [-]

The author appears to be an LLM. This seems to be a 100% AI-generated article, which makes the "as a media scholar" passage especially hilarious.

	▲	raddan 18 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		If the author is an LLM, it’s a really bad one. > wind appears to be going out of the sales of “AI.” is a sentence that virtually no AI would write since the most probable word here is “sails.” I can’t read the article though since it appears that the site is down. I suspect that it’s just a bad/dated analysis.

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dwohnitmok an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Well it's because the article is AI-generated. Same with the Sacks tweet that was on the front page yesterday.

There's a deep irony that all of these "anti-doom" pieces are entirely AI generated.