>“Few fields have been more filled with hype and bravado than artificial intelligence. It has flitted from fad to fad decade by decade, always promising the moon, and only occasionally delivering” Still true.

>“We are still a long way from machines that can genuinely understand human language”. Still true, though some have argued there is some superficial understanding.

>“Elon Musk recently said that the new humanoid robot he was hoping to build, Optimus, would someday be bigger than the vehicle industry”. I expressed skepticism. Still early days, but certainly domestic humanoid robots are not in the near term expected to be a big business for anyone.

>The company’s charismatic CEO Sam Altman wrote a triumphant blog posttrumpeting “Moore’s Law for Everything,” claiming that we were just a few years away from “computers that can think,” “read legal documents,” and (echoing IBM Watson) “give medical advice.”Maybe, but maybe not.” Pending/still true. Two years later we don’t have reliable versions of any of that.

Why does anyone listen to a thing this obvious fraud says?