"here are seven dark predictions:" ... "If all seven predictions prove correct, I hope that the field will finally realize that it is time to move on."

Does he even read this before he publishes it?

Intelligent criticism of these systems is critical to improving them. Francois Chollet's work is an excellent example. Merely complaining that GPT-X isn't an omnipotent, beneficent ideal AGI, is not intelligent criticism.