To end the year, here is our Top Ten Exaggerations, Hyperbole, and Failures list of hype news in artificial intelligence.

Show Notes

• 01:27 | #10 Headlines Claim AI Is Becoming Human Like
• 03:12 | #9 Seductive Semantics Sells AI. Will AI ever be Self-Aware?
• 04:57 | #8 The “Bigger Truck” Solution to AI Effectiveness
• 07:11 | #7 More Confusing Creativity is Claimed based on Incremental Computer Results  
• 10:36 | #6 AI Games the System: AI Software Can Find Loopholes in the Code

Links

• #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