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I meant the scientists, not the tech journalists. Clearly tech "journalists" is a very loose term nowadays
by make3 9y ago
I meant the scientists, not the tech journalists. Clearly tech "journalists" is a very loose term nowadays
- nkoren 9y agoYes, but the source article is clearly addressing the general public, not scientists. And it's doing a much better job of representing the state of technology than other sources that are addressed to the general public. So not sure what your complaint is.
- make3 9y agomy complaint is that the verge is one of the journals the more guilty of overhyping ai stuff there is, that it's one of the hardest cases of the pot calling the kettle black I've seen
- imh 9y agoMicrosoft's own blogpost sure doesn't help (https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/microsoft-creates-ai-can-read-document-answer-questions-well-person/ https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/microsoft-creates-ai-can-read...) >Microsoft creates AI that can read a document and answer questions about it as well as a person
- romaniv 9y agoScientists often carefully construct tasks, evaluation criteria and even test sets to make AI seem better than humans or at least better than it really is.