The phony comforts of AI skepticism
It’s fun to say that artificial intelligence is fake and sucks — but evidence is mounting that it’s real and dangerous| Platformer
It’s fun to say that artificial intelligence is fake and sucks — but evidence is mounting that it’s real and dangerous| Platformer
On Casey Newton and the shallowness of anti-skepticism.| thetechbubble.substack.com
The main issue I have with a lot of work that tries to define AI is that the criteria they use to draw boundaries often turn out to be functionally useless for my needs; these definitions lead us to weird places, letting scholars fixate on strange, unworkable frameworks. Those pedantic fixations don’t really benefit the organizers, activists, regular people who are getting crushed by the systems they’re trying to work against. So I’m going to try to unpack how I think about AI; how I tr...| ali-alkhatib.com
AI is real, but the hype is manufactured. A dose of skepticism is helpful for seeing how this story goes.| davekarpf.substack.com
What Casey Newton’s new essay skewering AI skepticism does—and does not—get right| garymarcus.substack.com
