I thought I might be, but I try to follow stories on advancement of the state of the art rather than "me too" applications of it. Novel applications are also in

I thought I might be, but I try to follow stories on advancement of the state of the art rather than "me too" applications of it. Novel applications are also interesting when breaking new ground. If you remove the money/corporate aspect thus ignoring the X raises $Y for Z stories it reduces a lot of noise. What I do get tired of seeing are the it's only ML (a bunch of if-then statistics, etc) stories and also some of the "Is AI sentient yet" kinds. The latter stories will be important when non-fringe folks actually believe they are rather than trying to fill news feeds. Stories that try to analyze consciousness of some form and compare biological to machine are very interesting as it's an attempt at expanding our understanding. I suppose learning to skip over the hype is a way to deal with it.