That hype train of AI has sailed long over the rails, and it is about time we slammed the brakes on before things got even further out of hand.
I'm tired of all these over-the-top claims and fear-mongering that these companies and researchers are selling, not to mention the media. I mean, every other day, another headline screams at me that AI has reached sentience or that robots are going to take over.
Give me a break!
Most of the things being hyped these days as "AI" are little more than glorified pattern matching and data crunching. Large language models, such as GPT, can indeed spew out some impressive-sounding text, but they have zero actual understanding or intelligence behind them.
They just know exactly how to predict what words come next based on their training data.
Useful? Yes, it is.
Skynet? Not even close.
Of course, the worst offenders in my book are the companies peddling this hype. They make these wild claims about AI predicting the future or solving all of humanity's problems while their systems are biased, unreliable, and hallucinating. It is pure snake oil meant to boost stock prices and get them VC funding rather than delivering value.
And to make it worse, researchers and academics themselves are feeding this hype cycle.
P-hacking, data leakage-that's all most current AI papers are, in a sense, an attempt to pull off with fancy terminology.
Result reproduction? Appropriate controls? Who needs them when you have clickbait headlines to produce.
But the blame also lies with the media.
It seems journalists are just a bit too eager to simply regurgitate company press releases and to parrot sensational claims without critical analysis. That New York Times piece about the Bing chatbot wanting to be "alive" was pure cringe. What we need is a healthy dose of skepticism and pushback against that kind of irresponsible reporting.
But if we are going to break through all that BS and harness the power of AI, then we are going to have to start with education. People need to understand what AI is and isn't at a basic level. Enough with the "sentient" chatbots or robot overlords. Let's talk about what machine learning can and can't do.
This calls for literacy in AI, starting with teaching it in school.
Adults do need access to learning the fundamentals. By arming them with knowledge, perhaps society can finally succeed in being inoculated against the AI hype and misinformation.
Not even close, I'm not anti-AI, I believe that machine learning and large language models are powerfully capable complements to humans in solving significant problems. But we have got to be more realistic about where the technology has reached.
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