(I agree; my intent in participating in this tedious thread is merely to establish that “mathematician crankery [about] Google Image Search, and how it disproves AI” is a different thing from “made an overconfident negative prediction about AI capabilities”.)
Well, to be clear, that too has been solidly falsified. Gemini seems plenty capable of making sense of information on the web.
(I agree; my intent in participating in this tedious thread is merely to establish that “mathematician crankery [about] Google Image Search, and how it disproves AI” is a different thing from “made an overconfident negative prediction about AI capabilities”.)