The Artificial Intelligentsia
I found the author to be slightly irritating on several occasions, dropping veiled references to Valleywag-style anti Silicon Valley memes, and then I got to the part where he regurgitates that idiotic article about the brain not processing information, and there being something magical about human brains that cannot be simulated [0].<p>He is right about his claim of having no right to be called a “director of research&quot;, as it seems to me his skills center on cribbing thoughts pulled from other people&#x27;s thinkpieces. It&#x27;s clear that he doesn&#x27;t have a deep background in either neuroscience or engineering and that he was brought to the company from a background in business journalism.<p>In his condemnation of the state of AI research, there is no mention of AlphaGo, or a description of the teachable pattern recognition techniques that have swept the deep learning scene over the last 6 years.<p>I&#x27;m sorry to be so harsh, but there is a certain tone to this piece, &quot;let&#x27;s hate all those startup a*holes&quot;, &quot;Mark Zuckerberg can&#x27;t write like F Scott Fitzgerald because his knowledge of liberal arts is too limited, unlike mine&quot; that seems like a snooty class signaler among a certain hipster set.<p>There is a compelling story in here, but to me the general attitude is just condescending to everyone around him.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aeon.co&#x2F;essays&#x2F;your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aeon.co&#x2F;essays&#x2F;your-brain-does-not-process-informati...</a>