• Artificial Intelligence,  Science

    Combatting AI Hype

    In “The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Predictions” Rodney Brooks argues that we ought to push back against mistaken predictions about artificial intelligence. Optimism about A.I. has simultaneously led to utopian visions of a workless future and fears of an AI that might destroy us. His main point is that we ought to stop falling for AI hype. First, if we don’t know what something will be able to do, we will have a hard time knowing what it won’t be able to do: If something is magic, it is hard to know its limitations…This is a problem we all have with imagined future technology. If it is far enough…