This is an Opinion piece, not a news article. The distinction between the two seems to be lost on most people nowadays.
One way I leverage opinion pieces for things with which I disagree, is to treat it as a sort of "devil's advocate". What argument are they making? Is that really the strongest one they have? Does my understanding of that domain effectively counter those arguments? etc.
In this case, the main argumentation is on how ChatGPT is not the miraculous genie it was hyped up to be. That's a fair statement, but to extrapolate that into "AI bubble is crashing now" is overlooking a host of other facts about its usefulness. Yes we'll eventually hit the through of disillusionment but I don't think we're there yet.
You are right. But newspapers make it difficult to distinguish them. Opinion pieces are liberally distributed amid news items. LA Times has a Columns section on the right hand side. But, this particular piece is not listed there. It is listed next to other news articles.
One way I leverage opinion pieces for things with which I disagree, is to treat it as a sort of "devil's advocate". What argument are they making? Is that really the strongest one they have? Does my understanding of that domain effectively counter those arguments? etc.
In this case, the main argumentation is on how ChatGPT is not the miraculous genie it was hyped up to be. That's a fair statement, but to extrapolate that into "AI bubble is crashing now" is overlooking a host of other facts about its usefulness. Yes we'll eventually hit the through of disillusionment but I don't think we're there yet.