Bingecast: Bursting 2018’s Top Ten Hyped Stories
In a blast from the not too distant past, we revisit Robert J. Marks’ review of 2018’s top ten exaggerations, hyperbole, and failures in artificial intelligence. Marks bursts a lot of bubbles. They serve as object lessons to see through the smoke and mirrors that continue to obscure the actual reach of artificial intelligence in 2019.
Show Notes
- 00:30 | Sensationalism in search of clicks
- 01:30 | #10 Headlines Claim AI Is Becoming Human Like
- 03:45 | #9 Seductive Semantics Sells AI. Will AI ever be Self-Aware?
- 05:00 | #8 The “Bigger Truck” Solution to AI Effectiveness
- 07:20 | #7 More Confusing Creativity is Claimed based on Incremental Computer Results
- 10:30 | #6 AI Games the System: AI Software Can Find Loopholes in the Code
- 12:15 | #5 AI For Hate Speech
- 13:50 | #4 Seductive Optics: AI in Human Shape
- 14:20 | #3 AI can read your mind
- 15:10 | #2 AI can’t write gud
- 19:00 | #1 “IBM Watson is a Joke”
Additional Resources
- #10 “DeepMind’s AlphaZero now showing human-like intuition in historical ‘turning point’ for AI”
- #9 “Army researchers are developing a self-aware squid-like robot you can 3D print in the field”
- #8 Nautilus
- #7 AI software was “creative”; swarm intelligence; Six-legged virtual bug
- #5 “Berkeley scientists developing artificial intelligence tool to combat ‘hate speech’ on social media”
- #4 “Here’s What Sophia, the First Robot Citizen, Thinks About Gender and Consciousness”
- #2 “Movie written by algorithm turns out to be hilarious and intense.” SCIgen
- #1 “IBM’s Watson ‘is a joke,’ says Social Capital CEO Palihapitiya”;“IBM pitched its Watson supercomputer as a revolution in cancer care. It’s nowhere close”