100% I just like someone pushing back. I think Zitron is a contrarian and good one. He's found a market for his perspective. I think he's going to far but not nearly as far off as the other side is going.

kepford

A.I. Critic Ed Zitron is Worth a Listen - On the Media Podcast

Hmm.  I can't help but feel like Ed Zitron has an axe to grind here.  I agree that we shouldn't necessarily buy all the AI hype.  At the same time, I think he isn't applying the same skepticism to Deepseek's claims.  As he said, the performance metrics are pretty gameable.  And in terms of all the videos of Deepseek performing amazing things---selection bias.  YTubers are incentivized to overhype stuff.  So it's going to take more time to see how well Deepseek performs vs. o1 and other SoA models out in the wild.

I also think AI is becoming commodified.  The winners of the AI war won't be the ones who have the best model.  It'll be the companies that have the most useful set of features and UI to go along with it.