What I observe is that what people don’t seem to grasp is that Zitron isn’t an AI sage. He’s simply someone who figured out that he can get a lot of attention by taking a contrarian stance when it comes to AI.
He can be 100% wrong about AI, but people will still read or listen to his next prediction. At this point, it’s mostly entertainment rather than a source of solid predictions.
He has one primary objective and that's to keep Ed Zitron in people’s minds by any means necessary.
It happens in sports, politics and, with Ed Zitron, AI.