The future of AI journalism is less hyperbole and smarter readers

Today we launched Neural, our new home for human-centric AI news and analysis. While we're celebrating the culmination of years of hard work from our behind-the-scenes staff, I'm taking the day to quietly contemplate the future of AI journalism. The Guardian's Oscar Schwartz wrote an article in 2018 titled "The discourse is unhinged: how the media gets AI alarmingly wrong." In it, he discusses the 2017 hype-explosion surrounding Facebook's AI research lab developing a pair of chat bots that created a short-hand language for negotiating. In reality, the chat bots' behavior was remarkable but not entirely unexpected.