Arvind Narayanan
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2 months ago |
bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com | Michael Kovnat |Arvind Narayanan |Sayash Kapoor
Upgrade to paid to play voiceoverA few days ago, we published a list of our favorite new books on AI, and today I’d like to call attention to one of those books, AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference. Written by two Princeton computer scientists, and , the book brings a clarifying lens to the hype currently surrounding artificial intelligence.
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Jan 13, 2025 |
cxotalk.com | Arvind Narayanan |Michael Krigsman
Join this provocative conversation with Princeton Professor Arvind Narayanan, co-author of AI Snake Oil, as we cut through the AI hype cycle to examine what artificial intelligence can and cannot deliver for business. While generative AI represents genuine technological progress, many AI applications - particularly in predictive analytics - are fundamentally flawed.
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Dec 13, 2024 |
technewstube.com | Arvind Narayanan |Sayash Kapoor
Tech News Tube is a real time news feed of the latest technology news headlines.Follow all of the top tech sites in one place, on the web or your mobile device.
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Dec 13, 2024 |
wired.com | Arvind Narayanan |Sayash Kapoor
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expects AGI, or artificial general intelligence—AI that outperforms humans at most tasks—around 2027 or 2028. Elon Musk’s prediction is either 2025 or 2026, and he has claimed that he was "losing sleep over the threat of AI danger."But predictions of imminent human-level AI have been made for over 50 years, since the earliest days of AI. Those predictions were wrong—not merely in terms of timing but in a deeper, categorical sense.
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Nov 19, 2024 |
spectator.org | Arvind Narayanan |Sayash Kapoor |Leonora Cravotta
AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the DifferenceBy Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor (Princeton University Press, 360 pages, $21.52)Artificial intelligence has become the proverbial elephant in the room. We vacillate between the fear that the mammoth creature will trample us into intellectual oblivion and the gut feeling that a mirage of our own making has duped us.
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