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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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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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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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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OK, as someone who's been seriously interested in computer chess for a long time... That's been seen as 'AI' since the 1950s. Go has been seen as a harder problem. They've now beaten one of the best chess players (Stockfish) in months. Why's this not AI?
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