Stop Blaming Terminator for Bad AI Journalism

In 2016, we find ourselves awash in news about machine learning. Driving this wave of interest, a number of breakthroughs - many due to deep learning - have pushed the state-of-the-art in computer vision, speech recognition and natural language processing. Per Google Trends, searches for machine learning are up four-fold while searches for deep learning are up ten-fold over the last five years. These advances have cracked open viable paths towards primitive but economically impactful systems. Responding to this demand, our news outlets, blogs, technical magazines and newspapers alike, have struggled to keep up.