A 10,000-foot view of AI

Yannic gave up on reading every interesting arXiv paper he could find a while ago. Today, he cites a combination of the arXiv, Reddit and Twitter as the main sources of ML-related news that he pulls from to stay up-to-date. It's no secret that media coverage of AI can be overblown (e.g. Sophia, the first android with citizenship, now wants to have a robot baby), one-dimensional and negatively slanted (Flasehoods more likely with large language models). But Yannic highlights a couple of specific tropes and themes that he's come to be particularly skeptical of.