Cthos reviewed The AI Con by Emily M. Bender
A smart, incisive take-down of the bogus claims being made about so-called ‘artificial intelligence’, exposing …
A very solid pushback on all of the AI Hype
4 stars
I enjoyed reading this book, though as someone who watches Mystery AI Hype Theatre 3000 pretty regularly, the information contained within is something I was already aware of.
For those of you who haven't read it, give it a read - it covers a lot of the underlying lies being bandied about in the current AI Hype bubble, and the sheer amount of bullshit coming out of Silicon Valley as they desperately grasp for the trillion dollar use case.
Overall, pretty short, but extremely well cited. The only ding I'm giving the book is that I think the prose could have been structured a bit better, there are a bunch of "we'll cover this in {x} section" or "we covered this in {x} section" as you go through and I think you'd have needed less of that were the sections reorganized a bit to have a stronger "narrative" …
I enjoyed reading this book, though as someone who watches Mystery AI Hype Theatre 3000 pretty regularly, the information contained within is something I was already aware of.
For those of you who haven't read it, give it a read - it covers a lot of the underlying lies being bandied about in the current AI Hype bubble, and the sheer amount of bullshit coming out of Silicon Valley as they desperately grasp for the trillion dollar use case.
Overall, pretty short, but extremely well cited. The only ding I'm giving the book is that I think the prose could have been structured a bit better, there are a bunch of "we'll cover this in {x} section" or "we covered this in {x} section" as you go through and I think you'd have needed less of that were the sections reorganized a bit to have a stronger "narrative" arc.
