[twblalock]

The same internet technology that empowers AI also empowers weird self-published stuff like this. The author should reflect on that.

[jacquesm]

The two have absolutely nothing to do with each other.

[twblalock]

Of course they do. The ability to publish believable nonsense that empowers bad AIs like ChatGPT also empowers human crank authors. Before the internet, neither would have had an easy time publishing.

[jacquesm]

AI does not empower 'weird self published stuff' and the internet worked very well before AI came along.

[twblalock]

My point is that both the author's writings and the AI he argues against are the kind of believable nonsense that only gets published for wide viewership because the internet makes it possible.

This whole comment thread is happening because a person who is wrong and not really smart is writing about how AI is wrong and not really smart, and none of this would happen if the internet didn't empower cranks in general, and it's sad that I have to spell this out.

[astrange]

The author is, as he says, a PhD in AI who was influential the last time anyone cared about AI in the 90s. I ain't seeing the crank bits here.

[jacquesm]

So your point is 'the internet allows for the cheap dissemination of information'?

[twblalock]

My point is to highlight the irony of the author being guilty of what he rails against.