Doctorow is really a sci-fi author but he got a name as a futurologist around the time of the dot-com bubble. This time, his comments on AI look more directly like prediction.
It’s not so much about what AI can or can’t do, nor how it works.
Doctorow writes about the business model by which AI is being pitched to financiers and investors.
His point is that this model won’t, and can’t, work as claimed.