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Noah Smith's avatar

As a researcher in AI, I share your frustration. The expert voices I see in the media are always the extreme ones. If a journalist were to attend one of the leading conferences in machine learning or natural language processing and talk to the people who know the most -- not the ones who spend all their time seeking publicity and seeking out, ahem, journalists -- one would plenty of good thoughts about what the technology really is, right now, and why it's exciting, and what's worth worrying about. Most of us on the ground find the boosters and the doomers a bit tiresome and their positions ungrounded in reality.

Note: I share a name with another journalist. I'm not him.

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JA's avatar

I think "Blockchain" was getting the same hype a few years ago.

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