#AI hype
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Drowning in AI Hype and Doom? Here Is How to Actually Make Sense of It
Between staff resignations warning of extinction and stock prices hitting record highs, it's genuinely hard to know what to think about AI. A few solid books help more than another news cycle.
AI Doom-Mongering Is a Real Problem, and This Column Is Part of It
The Guardian AI's weekly digest bundles vague catastrophe warnings with cultural gags and a 9/11 reflection. That mix tells you more about media habits than it does about AI.
Nilay Patel on why AI hype hits a wall the moment it leaves software
The Decoder host breaks down his viral 'software brain' essay and names verifiability as the hidden fault line beneath every sweeping AI claim.
Nobody Knows What AGI Means, and That's the Point
Nvidia's Jensen Huang declared his company had 'achieved AGI' on an earnings call, then called the milestone 'senseless' in the same breath. He's not wrong. The term has no agreed definition, and tech leaders like it that way.
OpenAI Said GPT-2 Was Too Dangerous to Release. Should We Have Believed It?
A researcher's old frustration with OpenAI's 2019 safety announcement raises a question still worth asking: when an AI company warns the world about its own technology, who really benefits?