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An untidy history of AI across four books

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111 points ewf | 1 comments | 19 Sep 25 18:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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rishi_rt ◴[19 Sep 25 19:04 UTC] No.45305201[source]▶
Aravind Narayanan seems to be the only guy qualified enough to be called an expert.
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eco ◴[19 Sep 25 20:03 UTC] No.45305888[source]▶
That's one of the things that drives me nuts about all the public discourse about AI and our future. The vast majority of words written/spoken on the subject are by generic "thought leaders" who really have no greater understanding of AI than anyone else who uses it regularly.
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1. libraryofbabel ◴[19 Sep 25 20:11 UTC] No.45305964[source]▶
And the article agrees with you, and is pretty scathing about all the books except Narayanan’s (which is also the only book with a balanced anti-hype perspective):

> A puzzling characteristic of many AI prophets is their unfamiliarity with the technology itself

> After reading these books, I began to question whether “hype” is a sufficient term for describing an uncoordinated yet global campaign of obfuscation and manipulation advanced by many Silicon Valley leaders, researchers, and journalists