Comment by andy99
Just a caution, this guy is a Gary Marcus-like perennial chicken little, this isn’t some discovery or realization, it’s just an ongoing part of someone’s identity as an AI bear.
Just a caution, this guy is a Gary Marcus-like perennial chicken little, this isn’t some discovery or realization, it’s just an ongoing part of someone’s identity as an AI bear.
Most criticism of Zitron tends to boil down to either “he’s mean/vulgar” or “he has an opinion”. Recently I saw an article that implied that Ed Zitron, owner of Ed Zitron PR and author of a couple books about public relations, was hiding the fact that he’s a PR guy.
Off the top of my head I think that he might’ve gotten inference costs wrong in an article and then corrected it, but usually I don’t see many people poking holes in his numbers.
This is the same guy who did the totally unhinged article (with even more unhinged headline) a while back.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
You can see how HN ate up that article back in the day - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133976
I read that article when it came out and thought it was well written and had good evidence and sources. It's the opposite of unhinged IMO, and explains a lot as to why Google is as terrible as it is now.
Yeah, total looney. I had a collection of questions and retorts until I got bored with it.
This seems like an ad hominem attack, are his numbers incorrect?