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Introducing the AI Snake Oil book project

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Something weird happened on November 19, 2019. When a professor shares scholarly slides online, they are usually intended for a niche group of peers. You’d be lucky if 20 people looked at them. But that day, the slides Arvind released went viral. They were downloaded tens of thousands of times and his tweets about them were viewed 2 million times.

Something weird happened on November 19, 2019. When a professor shares scholarly slides online, they are usually intended for a niche group of peers. You’d be lucky if 20 people looked at them. But that day, the slides Arvind released went viral. They were downloaded tens of thousands of times and his tweets about them were viewed 2 million times. Once the shock wore off, it was clear why the topic had touched a nerve. Most of us suspect that a lot of AI around us is fake, but don’t have the vocabulary or the authority to question it. After all, it’s being peddled by supposed geniuses and…

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