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by _fh5n
3205 days ago
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Seriously, tech journalism needs to get it's shit together because it's becoming annoying.
If I see another article about a mediocre algorithm presented as AGI, I'm gonna start posting on my blog about how every failed experiments is really Skynet being lazy in its teenager years |
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University press has a horrible tendency to oversell research in the name of getting news coverage, often completely burying possible flaws or limitations of the result. The University of Maryland infamously put out a major release on concussion treatment based on a study that didn't exist (1). Similar but lesser abuses appear to be almost constant. It seems like worthwhile-but-unspectacular thesis result gets spun as a groundbreaking insight in its field.
1: http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/01/chocolate-milk-concussi...