The Download: the AI Hype Index, and "normal" AI

That's why we've created the AI Hype Index--a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of the industry. Take a look at this month's edition of the index here. Despite its ubiquity, AI is seen as anything but a normal technology. There is talk of AI systems that will soon merit the term "superintelligence," and the former CEO of Google recently suggested we control AI models the way we control uranium and other nuclear weapons materials. A recent essay by two AI researchers at Princeton argues that AI is a general-purpose technology whose application might be better compared to the drawn-out adoption of electricity or the internet than to nuclear weapons.