Emily Bender and Alex Hanna's book, "The AI Con", critiques the pervasive hype around artificial intelligence, suggesting that technologies like chatbots mislead us about their actual capabilities. They argue that while such tools can impress, they are fundamentally based on social processes of language comprehension rather than genuine understanding. The authors present options for society to resist this hype, empowering individuals to reclaim control over AI's development and applications, ultimately hoping to forge a future where technology serves humanity positively and ethically.
AI systems like ChatGPT are designed to be impressive but their real utility is rooted in complex social interactions that we, as humans, naturally navigate.
The hype surrounding AI is largely a parlor trick, misleading us on the capabilities of such technologies while emphasizing the intricacies of human language and inference.
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