AI Snake OilArvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor
AI Snake Oil
by Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor · first published 2024
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on “Ask HN: Best non-fiction book you read in 2024?” ↗…to evaluate people, in any context whatsoever. For the simple reason that it has been proven not to work (and will also never). Anyone interested to learn more about it, I recommend the recent book "AI Snake Oil" from Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor [1]. It is a critical but nuanced book and helps to see the whole AI hype a little more clearly. [1] https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691249131/ai....
on “Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations” ↗The four books discussed in that passage are: AI Snake Oil – by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor Nexus – by Yuval Noah Harari Genesis – by Henry Kissinger, Craig Mundie, and Eric Schmidt The Singularity Is Nearer – by Ray Kurzweil
on “An untidy history of AI across four books” ↗Narayanan (~randomwalker) is writing a book about, & with likely title, "AI Snake Oil". Of course there's plenty of BS around the domain – every epochal advance arrives inside a phalanx of pretenders & hypesters & scammers. But the rapid progress in the field risks nearly any tangible…
on “The availability of text generators will force positive changes to education” ↗