A data scientist's profane critique of AI hype and discourse
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Published on June 19, 2024
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Summary
A data scientist with formal training and competitive ML experience delivers a profanity-laced critique of the AI hype cycle, arguing that most AI discourse is detached from technical reality. The author expresses frustration with the overuse of the term "AI" to describe statistical models, criticizes the lack of technical rigor in public discussions, and pushes back against both utopian and dystopian narratives surrounding large language models like GPT-4. The piece blends technical skepticism with raw, confrontational commentary on the state of AI culture.
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I myself have formal training as a data scientist, going so far as to dominate a competitive machine learning event at one of Australia's top universities and writing a Master's thesis where I wrote all my own libraries from scratch in MATLAB.
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