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>The public’s understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) is largely shaped by pop culture First clause of first sentence falsely posits that the "public" ha

by prvc 4y ago

>The public’s understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) is largely shaped by pop culture First clause of first sentence falsely posits that the "public" has a single mind, and claims the authors know the contents of this mind and what causes it to acquire these contents. It also adopts a false pose of authority and and understanding superior to that of the (nonexistent) mind of the public. It was nice of the authors to disqualify themselves from offering worthy ideas on the topic of AI so early in the article.

bostonwalker 4y ago
Do you really believe that we cannot make generalizations about the layperson's understanding of AI? Unless you have a related degree in math, statistics, engineering, or comp. sci, i.e. a tiny minority of people, it's probably true that you get your understanding from pop culture.
- prvc 4y ago
  >Do you really believe that we cannot make generalizations about the layperson's understanding of AI? I never said anything like that. Another point: They also continually conflate "AI", deep learning, and mechanical-turk style crowdsourcing.
  - bostonwalker 4y ago
    > First clause of first sentence falsely posits that the "public" has a single mind Seems hard to say this on one hand and allow for useful generalizations on the other. > Another point: They also continually conflate "AI", deep learning, and mechanical-turk style crowdsourcing Off the bailey and into your motte
    - prvc 4y ago
      >Off the bailey and into your motte That's another misunderstanding and misrepresentation of my words, which were just making a separate point (could have been a top-level comment).
Xelynega 4y ago
Why are you discrediting the authors points based off of a fluff sentence in the introductory paragraph? Typically the arguments themselves are evaluated based on their own merit. The "popular" in pop culture and the "public" in publics understanding are referring to the same thing, so I don't understand your confusion. The only thing that's really being implied by the sentence is that scientific understanding doesn't dominate the public understanding of artificial intelligence as much as pop culture does.

by prvc 4y ago

bostonwalker 4y ago

Do you really believe that we cannot make generalizations about the layperson's understanding of AI? Unless you have a related degree in math, statistics, engineering, or comp. sci, i.e. a tiny minority of people, it's probably true that you get your understanding from pop culture.

prvc 4y ago
>Do you really believe that we cannot make generalizations about the layperson's understanding of AI? I never said anything like that. Another point: They also continually conflate "AI", deep learning, and mechanical-turk style crowdsourcing.
- bostonwalker 4y ago
  > First clause of first sentence falsely posits that the "public" has a single mind Seems hard to say this on one hand and allow for useful generalizations on the other. > Another point: They also continually conflate "AI", deep learning, and mechanical-turk style crowdsourcing Off the bailey and into your motte
  - prvc 4y ago
    >Off the bailey and into your motte That's another misunderstanding and misrepresentation of my words, which were just making a separate point (could have been a top-level comment).

Xelynega 4y ago

Why are you discrediting the authors points based off of a fluff sentence in the introductory paragraph? Typically the arguments themselves are evaluated based on their own merit. The "popular" in pop culture and the "public" in publics understanding are referring to the same thing, so I don't understand your confusion. The only thing that's really being implied by the sentence is that scientific understanding doesn't dominate the public understanding of artificial intelligence as much as pop culture does.