Emily and Alex read through Google vice president Blaise Aguera y Arcas' recent proclamation that "artificial general intelligence is already here." Why this claim is a maze of hype and moving goalposts.
References:
Noema Magazine: "Artificial General Intelligence Is Already Here.")
"AI and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Benchmark")
"Targeting the Benchmark: On Methodology and Current Natural Language Processing Research")
"Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing")
"The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise")
"Is chess the drosophila of artificial intelligence? A social history of an algorithm")
"The logic of domains")
"Reckoning and Judgment")
Fresh AI Hell:
Using AI to meet "diversity goals" in modeling)AI ushering in a "post-plagiarism" era in writing)
"Wildly effective and dirt cheap AI therapy.")
Applying AI to "improve diagnosis for patients with rare diseases.")
Using LLMs in scientific research)
Health insurance company Cigna using AI to deny medical claims.)
AI for your wearable-based workout)
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