Ed Zitron with his subpar takes again.
You could kill all the major AI labs today, and even just today's open-weight models are enough to absolutely transform society, with video-game GPU stuck together at homes.
Obviously, you can agree with one thing and not with other. And he can be right in one thing and not the other. But, if you listen to what he is saying, he is absolutely saying the technology is not significant.
He is very very clear and open on what he thinks about usefulness of ai. He is not saying "it isn't as great as the hype". He is saying "it is useless". He is simply not the centrist kind of guy when it comes to AI usefulness.