Jul 24, 2017 · 1 min read
Beautifully Articulated! Reminds me of Claude Shannon’s appeal for people to vacate his field!
AI hype curve has an exploding gradient currently.
Pros:
- Funding
- More eyes mean more young smart minds get involved (remember the first time your mind was blown by the idea of a smarter machine?).
- competition pushes the lazy engineers (c’mmon…how many AI papers did you read this year vs 5 years ago even when you knew it was THE THING in your life)
- AI Jobs. Hell yeah!
- Cool gadgets. Self-driving cars woo-hoo…!
Cons:
- With great talk comes great responsibility — engineers have to walk the talk
- Unnecessary media attention
- Too much noise:signal ratio everywhere
- Too many AI pundits and thought leaders!!
- Potential for another AI Winter