interest in AI is at an all time high - google trends indicate people are searching for AI terms, 5x greater than 5 years ago
Breakthroughs in computer vision, speech recognition, and, more generally, pattern recognition in large data sets, have given machine learning substantial power to impact industry, society, and other academic disciplines.
Like the internet before it, machine learning now stands poised to impact diverse areas of the economy. Whether you work in government, medical imaging, car services, the law, or recycling, there’s good reason to believe that machine learning will impact your life and finances.
REL = chart unemployment (graphic reddit )
Both in industry and the broader public, many people know that important things are happening in machine learning but lack any concrete sense of what
precisely is happening.
This pairing of interest with ignorance has created a perfect storm for a misinformation epidemic.
The outsize demand for stories about AI has created a tremendous opportunity for impostors to capture some piece of this market.
This has made deep learning especially ripe for exploitation by click-baiters, including journalists in the traditional media who might possess the writing chops but are out of their depth – see the recent Maureen Dowd piece on Elon Musk, Demis Hassabis, and AI Armaggedon in Vanity Fair for a masterclass in low-quality, opportunistic journalism.
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DESCRIPTION: ] The AI misinformation epidemic ] by Zachary C. Lipton @ approximatelycorrect.com - Lipton concludes that general interest in AI is at an all time high, which is creating a perfect storm for the spread of misinformation on the subject.
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