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Posted on 2017 September 23 by polgarp · Tagged in Journalism and AI weapons
Original link: http://idlewords.com/2017/09/anatomy_of_a_moral_panic.htm
We will see more posts like this in the future, as we are not yet on peak-AI. Mainstream journalists misunderstanding how machine learning works, and what is it capable of (besides other issues in the story, like what would be a good and cheap way to blow things up). The problem seems to be, that compared to other technologies, AI is conceptually just more complicated and some concepts are hard to describe in layman’s terms, especially regarding scale.