By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The AI Misinformation Epidemic
Zachary C. Lipton, Approximately Correct, 2017/03/29
This ios the first of what promises to be a series of posts on what the author calls the 'misinformation epidemic' in AI. Here are the major sorts of misinformation:

  • lists of the AI Influencers populated mostly by people with no discernible contribution (or even expertise) in AI.
  • With startling regularity, if I tell an educated person what I do, a question quickly follows in reference to the Singularity
  • Despite the increasing familiarity of machine learning in the media, the quality of journalism hasn’t improved appreciably. More...