I am dead, I can’t believe this AI intro text I just got. If you thumb through it, there are all the usual suspects like breadth-first search and probability.
Then you open the first chapter and it goes HARD on the current state of things.
Then it’s back to mathematical notation like nothing happened.
@vicki this reminds me of a recent online course I took on deep learning. One lesson, about graphical models and time series, ended with an 8 minute section about the existential threats AI poses to social welfare ... then, after watching that, we had an exercise to build a text generator with a recurrent neural net.
I had the distinct feeling I was alone in my cognitive dissonance
Vicki Boykis
JC Reus