Author Archives: Louis Murerwa

AI and the Media

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  • Genre : AI Memes
  • Informant : https://devrant.com
  • Location Collected : Hanover, NH
  • Date Collected : 20 May 2020

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https://devrant.com is an online community where tech developers and programmers share their daily life experiences and bond over successes and frustrations with code, tech and life as programmers. The platform members post jokes, meme’s, legends and stories about their daily work life in the tech industry. The site describes itself as a place where programmers share their war stories about life behind the keyboard. The platform members have a deep understanding of computer science and their content is always aligned with their common CS background.

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The real Artificial Intelligence consists of tedious mathematical models that are usually presented in form of academic research papers and rigorous code. This meme is an inside joke within the developer community about the exaggeration of AI by the media. The media tends to present any simple piece of code as AI for marketing and click baiting people because AI sells. The selling phenomenon of AI can be evidenced by big Hollywood movies such as the Terminator and the Matrix. The media takes advantage of the selling point of AI to make profits although it doesn’t even understand the real AI.

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Collector’s Name: Louis Murerwa

Tags/Keywords:

  • Machine Learning
  • AI
  • Media
  • Meme

AI : Statistics reframed as AI

Info about the item:

  • Genre : AI Memes
  • Informant : https://devrant.com
  • Location Collected : Hanover, NH
  • Date Collected : 20 May 2020

Informant Data

https://devrant.com is an online community where tech developers and programmers share their daily life experiences and bond over successes and frustrations with code, tech and life as programmers. The platform members post jokes, meme’s, legends and stories about their daily work life in the tech industry. The site describes itself as a place where programmers share their war stories about life behind the keyboard. The platform members have a deep understanding of computer science and their content is always aligned with their common CS background.

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This meme makes fun of the origins, existence and attention given to Artificial Intelligence. The basic components of Artificial Intelligence are Statistics and Mathematics but since Statistics and Math are old terms that are associated with Academia, the tech industry has rebranded them as Artificial Intelligence. Statistics was originally framed as Machine Learning then as Artificial Intelligence so as to gain more audience and attention.AI is basically Statistics since it depends on probabilities to make decisions. The tech industry is just reframing the same old ideas so as to gain an audience and sell products.

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Collector’s Name: Louis Murerwa

Tags/Keywords:

  • Machine Learning
  • AI
  • Media
  • Statistics
  • Meme