"AI" has been confusing people for over a century.
Nineteenth century British politicians demonstrated a complete lack of understanding of Charles Baggage’s difference engine, leaving him to comment,
On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
I fear people in 2022 have the same blind faith in deep learning models.
