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Le sur-optimisme des nouvelles innovations

It seems just like crypto the 'ai' hype cycle is coming to an end with zero achievements to show for itself beyond puffery and premature speculation about radiologists, drivers and others losing their jobs.

And its not just hype, like crypto the ai hype stepped well beyond the line to outright fraud and deception with tech folks trying to pass off backward looking pattern matching as 'intelligence' and hope no one notices. Every single commentator here knows there is nothing in computing or software engineering today that will allow one to 'create' an 'ai' as the world understands the term yet no one questioned pushing intentionally deceptive communication.

This end result of dystopian scaremongering amounting to nothing is there is now zero credibility and extreme suspicion of problematic in-built bias. At the minimum there must be some standards for machine learning solutions to be thoroughly transparent, open to verification and exhaustively tested for racist and sexist bias before any rollout, for anyone who cares about the impact of their work in the real world.