In Favor of More Science Communication by AI Researchers

There's too much misunderstanding, hype, and misinformation surrounding AI, and those developing it should do more to change that

Many working in AI today can still no doubt remember the media craze about how Creepy Facebook bots talked to each other in a secret language. As I wrote about when it first happened, the whole thing began with a single innocuous sentence in the researchers’ paper, which was then highlighted in a single tweet, and then covered in a single article, and e…