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Puff pieces that fawn over what Silicon Valley techbros have done, with amassed capital and computing power, are not helping us get any closer to solutions to problems created by the deployment of so-called “AI”. On the contrary, they make it harder by refocusing attention on strawman problems.
Source: On NYT Magazine on AI: Resist the Urge to be Impressed | by Emily M. Bender | Medium
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