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Unfortunately non-sensationalist news doesn't sell.

The layperson is guided by fear and is quick to trust any headline that comes across their newsfeed.

AI (and not Machine Learning to an extent) have a bad association with far-fetched sci-fi plots and worst case scenarios. Maybe the best solution would be to re-brand AI/ML as something more abstract.

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I loved how in Arrival, they build a statistical model to map between concepts in the two languages, ostensibly via a joint embedding space.

They don't elaborate on it in the movie, but I could totally see such ideas being explained with style (and tense background music) in future sci-fi films about AI. Make it as banal as possible.

I've been thinking Big Statistics would be a more accurate description, and doesn't sound scary.

The problem is not AI, in fact. It's harvesting of personal and private data. Technology just makes gathering and analisys easier.

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