Arvind N
Arvind N
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:

  1. Funding
  2. More eyes mean more young smart minds get involved (remember the first time your mind was blown by the idea of a smarter machine?).
  3. 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)
  4. AI Jobs. Hell yeah!
  5. Cool gadgets. Self-driving cars woo-hoo…!

Cons:

  1. With great talk comes great responsibility — engineers have to walk the talk
  2. Unnecessary media attention
  3. Too much noise:signal ratio everywhere
  4. Too many AI pundits and thought leaders!!
  5. Potential for another AI Winter
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