Artificial Intelligence Implies Artificial Stupidity - AI Summary

Over at "SkepticalScience", which is neither skeptical nor scientific, they're hyping a new "Artificial Intelligence" (AI) tool developed by John Cook et al. to identify "denialist claims". The paper laying out this foolishness is in Nature Scientific Reports in an article with the most sciency title of "Computer-assisted classification of contrarian claims about climate change". "Ultimately, our goal is the Holy Grail of fact-checking, which is being able to detect and debunk misinformation in real time," said Cook, who partly developed the framework previously at George Mason University. Because in total contradiction to point 4 immediately above, that experts are not unreliable, one of the finest physicists of my lifetime, Richard Feynman, famously said: Nature Magazine, a premier scientific journal and a huge defender of the anthropogenic climate change hypothesis, has an article on the subject which says: So clearly, Nature Magazine is a secret nest of climate "denialists" whose claims should be censored before anyone can be misled by them … and while that example alone should be enough to totally discredit their artificial stupidity, it's just the first of many. So it's gonna identify articles pointing out that while in most of the media heatwaves are always explained as climate change, cold spells are just plain old weather … For most species, including humans and coral reefs, a change of a degree in average temperature over fifty years means nothing.