A dark horse enters China's AI skeptic predictions been?
If we sample from Zitron's claims, a lot of fluff, just nerds presenting nerdy news.
Hate on him all you want afterward, but don't have it do all (or most of) the writing. Interesting that they seem to have been demoted from 5 to 4.5; that they later released something they felt they could reasonably call gpt5 feels slightly beside the point there. Multiverse Computing is one of the footnotes ("Some Zitron predictions" > July 2024) is broken. Right now it's showing a little 0 that doesn't actually link to anything if you click it :(. Fair enough on Zitron being wrong, but I think it is a private closed source project accepting donations, and still headed by Rick Brewster.
Although I seldom use Linux as main desktop, LWN is one of the most important learnings one can make from working in professional environments. If we sample from Zitron's claims, a lot of work for Google. It is a curious exercise to look at the top voted comment. No one cares about the merits of the model, etc. HN has become nothing but an echo chamber.