“The end result is that like a good magic show, the world of deep learning the public sees is little more than a stage-managed illusion. Collections of simplistic tricks are presented under ideal circumstances in order to convince the public of an AI revolution that exists only in their imaginations. Driverless car companies sell vehicles upon the idea that in a few short years those cars will be autonomously outperforming the best human drivers, even while those companies recognize internally that today’s technology cannot offer such a world. We freely buy into this illusion of an AI revolution because we want to believe that the intelligent machines that decades of science fiction have foretold have finally arrived.” AI is like a magic trick: amazing until it goes wrong, then revealed as a cheap and brittle effect https://boingboing.net/2019/07/09/expert-at-the-pivot-table.html via Instapaper