Contra Ptacek's Terrible Article On AI - Nikhil Suresh

I know I said I won't share an AI post for a while but I've come across the best response to Thomas Ptacek's post, My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts, by Nikhil Suresh. His response was thorough and pointed out my qualms with the article. I thought the rest was well written but Nikhil Suresh makes some well written arguments why they're not — so I had to share.