{"id":68801,"date":"2019-11-22T15:56:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T20:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=68801"},"modified":"2019-11-22T15:56:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T20:56:17","slug":"much-of-whats-being-sold-as-ai-today-is-snake-oil-arvind-narayanan-assoc-prof-of-cs-at-princeton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/11\/22\/much-of-whats-being-sold-as-ai-today-is-snake-oil-arvind-narayanan-assoc-prof-of-cs-at-princeton\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Much of what\u2019s being sold as &#8216;AI&#8217; today is snake oil.&#8221; [Arvind Narayanan; Assoc. Prof. of CS at Princeton ]"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Much of what\u2019s being sold as &#8220;AI&#8221; today is snake oil. It does not and cannot work. In a talk at MIT yesterday, I described why this happening, how we can recognize flawed AI claims, and push back. Here are my annotated slides: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iCpyFw5urN\">https:\/\/t.co\/iCpyFw5urN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pmOTI3vq8p\">pic.twitter.com\/pmOTI3vq8p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/random_walker\/status\/1196870349574623232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.princeton.edu\/~arvindn\/talks\/MIT-STS-AI-snakeoil.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68807\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Arvind-Narayanan-AI-Nov2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Arvind-Narayanan-AI-Nov2019.jpg 742w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Arvind-Narayanan-AI-Nov2019-150x86.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">I wish that more faculty members would share their research, teaching methods, knowledge, and commentary with the world as this professor does (vs. talking to other professors behind publishers\u2019 walled off content). In this case, Arvind happens to use Twitter. But if one doesn&#8217;t like to use Twitter, there&#8217;s also LinkedIn, WordPress\/blogging, podcasting, and other outlets.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/random_walker\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68804 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Arvind-Narayanan-PrincetonProf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Arvind-Narayanan-PrincetonProf.jpg 480w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Arvind-Narayanan-PrincetonProf-143x150.jpg 143w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much of what\u2019s being sold as &#8220;AI&#8221; today is snake oil. It does not and cannot work. In a talk at MIT yesterday, I described why this happening, how we can recognize flawed AI claims, and push back. Here are my annotated slides: https:\/\/t.co\/iCpyFw5urN pic.twitter.com\/pmOTI3vq8p \u2014 Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker) November 19, 2019 &nbsp; From DSC: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,435,356,110,817,86,127,433,45,297,112,82,403,71,359,419,180,102,7,821,509,309,196,437,166,105,195,321,214,822,49,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjunct-faculty","category-analytics","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-blogs-blogging","category-bots","category-change","category-collaboration","category-communications","category-computer-science","category-copyright-ownership-nfts","category-corporate-business-world","category-engineering","category-ethics","category-faculty-staff","category-health","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-natural-language-processing-nlp","category-near-field-communication-nfc","category-platforms","category-productivity-tips-and-tricks","category-robotics","category-social-learning-networks","category-social-media","category-tools","category-united-states","category-universities","category-voice-recognition-voice-enabled-interfaces","category-web-based-collaboration","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68801"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68808,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68801\/revisions\/68808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}