AI Update, Late 2020 - dumpster fire - by Filip Piekniewski
2020 is a very strange year and a dumpster fire in many respects. Everything is still holding together but it feels like the news we get are just progressively more absurd. Similarly is the case with AI where a slow motion train wreck is progressing eliminating more and more hyped up companies and researchers. There could still be more waste to come, though there is a feeling of decline in the air.