There's No Such Thing as "AI Godfather", Stop Repeating This Pure Nonsense!
Yesterday we saw that again:
Just to be clear, there is no "AI Godfather" or "Godfather of AI". We already looked into this before; he wrote some paper or papers after AI was already a thing (that was it!) and it was decades after "AI" as a 'thing' had already existed, was well established etc. They explained how to assign weights for a model based on probabilities derived from observation (training set) - not unprecedented at the time. There are dozens of methods of building such models. He might be credited with one. That's not to say he didn't lead some important research (even not as primary author). But now he's just riding the hype like Craig Wright with fake-coins.
"That's hyperbole and, as you note, wrong," an associate says. "The journalist there seems to be trying to discredit him."
It's getting a bit sickening; seeing this word, "Godfather", interjected along with typically gloomy predictions means to arouse curiosity and drive hype.
Slop isn't unprecedented, it was just riding lots of paid-for (media bribes) hype, which built up momentum/inertia while debt surged (because it was always unsustainable; in recent years some investors got conned into losing their wealth to inflate a bubble).
Infantile or corruptible media that plays along with slop or uses slop will perish. █