Casey NewtonMay 9, 2023

What does “good” coverage of AI mean to you? I wrote about how the disparate views that very smart people have about existential risk are making it hard to calibrate how to cover advancements in artificial intelligence.

https://www.platformer.news/p/why-im-having-trouble-covering-ai

Why I'm having trouble covering AI

If you believe that the most serious risks from AI are real, should you write about anything else?

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Show threadReed Mideke
@caseynewton I generally wish coverage would be more skeptical of theoretical OMG SKYNET risks (or OMG techno utopia alternative), and look harder at near term stuff, like AI generated SEO spam drowning out real content, or chatbots that routinely make shit up being used in ways that impact people in real life
May 9, 2023 at 3:32amWeb
Show threadReed MidekeMay 9, 2023
@caseynewton I also wish the press would push AI vendors/hype artists to explain why they believe defects like "hallucinations" are fixable bugs, rather than inherent characteristics of the current tech
( @ncweaver summarizes nicely in
https://mastodon.social/@ncweaver@thecooltable.wtf/110333341827157379 )