For some reason the field of AI has become an area where famous men who have no expertise in the field feel they have an obligation to tell us all about their o

For some reason the field of AI has become an area where famous men who have no expertise in the field feel they have an obligation to tell us all about their opinions on it. Equally oddly, prestigious outlets then decide that these opinions deserve to be published so we can all read them. What the actual opinions are is not important - since they're not based on any actual understanding of the capabilities or limitations of the technology, even if sometimes some of them are accidentally correct, that doesn't make them interesting. (I guess as long as Nathan Myhrvold is pontificating on AI at least he's not spending that time on patent trolling, so there's some upside.)