Where Are the AI Skepticism Stories?
Hipster skepticism won’t help us understand AI’s potential or its risk
Coming from the left, the mood affiliation usually takes the form: “Tech bros think AI is cool, and tech bros are bad — therefore, AI is overhyped.” AI is often compared to crypto, a technology that’s least an order of magnitude less important. And in their hipster-esque dismiss... See more
Coming from the left, the mood affiliation usually takes the form: “Tech bros think AI is cool, and tech bros are bad — therefore, AI is overhyped.” AI is often compared to crypto, a technology that’s least an order of magnitude less important. And in their hipster-esque dismiss... See more
Nate Silver • It's time to come to grips with AI
First, if you (you engineer, you AI acolyte!) think the answer is obviously “yes, it’s okay”, or if you (you journalist, you media executive!) think the answer is obviously “no, it’s not okay”, then I will suggest that you are not thinking with sufficient sensitivity and imagination about something truly new on Earth. Nothing here is obv... See more
I've ever seen so much paranoia in technology about missing out on The Next Big Thing as with AI. Companies seem less excited about the prospects than they are petrified that its going to kill them. Maybe that fear is justified, maybe it's not, but what's incontestable is the kind of desperation it's leading to.
-DHH