When the first AlphaGo results came out, I got quite annoyed, and polled twitter about whether I should write a debunking.
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Consensus was: either it’s significant, in which case you will look dumb soon, or else it isn’t, in which case everyone will forget about it, and you will have wasted your time.
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A couple years later, it’s still bogus, and the hype tsunami has climbed even higher. Probably nothing I could have done would have punctured the bubble, but I regret not trying.
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Replying to @Meaningness
I get pretty annoyed that everyone calls this stuff A.I. !
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Replying to @ssica3003
Yes… There’s a pattern of suspension of normal skepticism in this area. For some reason people—techies, the media, biz, the general public—all WANT to believe… I don’t get it.
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Replying to @Meaningness
I know it's just semantics but voice recognition (Siri) and brute force/machine learning is not *Artificial Intelligence*, it's like an abacus using culture calling a calculator "sentient"! It's not, it's just doing what the tool has always done, but, like, quicker...
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All American coffee is sour and burned. Expensive brands talk about floral notes and tropical fruit flavors, but they too just taste sour and burned. “AI” is also a mass-market product now…
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