You mean the people who treat AI as it is advertised?

do you believe everything you see in adverts?

I don’t expect ads to contain materially false statements these days, as you can get in trouble for that.

Tesla has been selling full self driving for a decade now and they're doing fine. Granted, they had to buy the US government and shut down the agencies that were investigating them.

It seems like a very backwards approach to testing a new technology: instead of “let me figure out how to use this tool”, the approach I see a lot is “let me continually use this tool in an known incorrect way”

Of course there is valuable knowledge in understanding limitations but that is not the approach the author is taking here, imo the author seems disingenuous.

Yes, yes, the magic robots are perfect as long as you refrain from actually trying to use them for anything.

Like, the marketing to the general public is, pretty much, these are magic. It’s entirely reasonable to call out their overconfident bullshit.