Facebook's A.I. Did Not Invent A New Language - The Ape Machine

This is crazy: I can not believe the amount of hype this is getting at the moment, and it seems you can not even turn your back for five minutes at the moment, or somewhere a new media explosion will start with inaccurate information about artificial intelligence. And, when I say artificial intelligence, I obviously mean the misuse of the term artificial intelligence. Of course, if you go digging deep enough, you might find some real machine learning researchers, and maybe even the people directly connected to this project, talking more level-headed about this particular subject, but let's be honest, most people get their information from the big media sites. You know, the ones who are not well versed on the topic, but instead just rewrite articles from their peers. In any case, I wanted to cover this because a lot of my friends on social media who know I am working within this sector are sharing this story with me at the moment, and I may as well get my 2 cents out there, so I don't have to respond to every single share.