How Artificial Intelligence Hype Keeps Us Stuck in “The Good Old Days”

Written by docstefflbauer | Published 2019/07/21
Tech Story Tags: ai | tech-diversity | digital-surveillance | artificial-intelligence | tech-transparency | artificial-intelligence-hype | latest-tech-stories | hackernoon-top-story

TLDR 'Paranormal romance' genre invented by 'paranormal' publishers in the 1960s. The genre was marketed as an escape from regular human men’s bad jokes, bad breath or bad posture. Instead of books trying to sell a tired fantasy, the tech industry has billion-dollar IPOs on the line. AI is hyped as being purely data-driven, it's as far from error-prone human behavior as a vampire is from a dorky office-mate.via the TL;DR App
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Written by docstefflbauer | Digital transformation PhD, MBA in the tech trenches since Y2K. Founder @FrauenLoop.org
Published by HackerNoon on 2019/07/21
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