Which title is better?

Seven [Lies/Myths/Bitter Truths] About AI

@GaryMarcus "Bitter truths" and "lies" have very different implications. The former implies something we are forced to accept -- there is no alternative.

@GaryMarcus How can you get it down to just seven?

@GaryMarcus In the modern world we misuse the word 'myth' to mean lie. But that is not accurate. A myth is a narrative that contains profound truths that are meant to guide culture. But because science set itself against religion, any story that is not scientific is assumed false.

@AndrewOrlowski i have notes on 15 and haven’t even really started :)

will have to taxonomize and consolidate!

@GaryMarcus How about "The Seven Veils of AI"?

@GaryMarcus One of the chapters should perhaps be titled, "The lies about AI consciousness".

@GaryMarcus Seven volumes

@GaryMarcus They're not synonyms, so whichever you pick, you'll be writing a wildly different article

@GaryMarcus Don’t be so hard on yourself. Also. You’re not THAT famous.

@GaryMarcus @aeon_dusk wanna help with the lies from inside the machine?

@GaryMarcus Other - fibs.

@thinkingchris1 doesn’t capture the magnitude/effort with which they have been sold

@GurReptsSohn @GaryMarcus The font was small and I first read "The Seven Smells of AI".

@GaryMarcus Lies is just too strong for me. Don't know enough about the subject yet to be casting those sorts of judgments.

Appreciate that fibs sounds childish.

@GaryMarcus In this context, I imagine a shopper will assume one "bitter truth" is: "your job is going to be lost to AI." But I don't think that is your argument.

A suggestion: That the idea of an AGI (and ASI) capable of generating new knowledge is unrealistic, because AI, as of now, is trained with data already consumed by humans and is therefore limited in ways unnoticed by human intuition.

David Silver has recognized this and proposes a radically different approach with his SuperLearner, but even here I remain skeptical due to second-order cybernetics.

@GaryMarcus Prompts (sorry)

@GaryMarcus Also, I voted for 'Bitter Truths.'

@GaryMarcus Hallucinations