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AI fatigue grows as half of science coverage focuses on it

Original: It starts to make me exhausted that now one every two popular pieces in science or posts in media are about # AI . it's

An astrophysicist has voiced frustration that roughly one in two popular science articles and media posts now centres on artificial intelligence. He argues AI is merely a tool, sometimes a poor one, rather than the end goal of research or society, and says the sheer volume of AI-centric coverage has become exhausting. The complaint echoes a wider weariness among scientists and commentators over the saturation of AI hype in science communication and everyday media.

Why now: Many scientists and readers feel AI hype has crowded out other topics in science news.

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• It starts to make me exhausted that now one every two popular pieces in science or posts in media are about # AI . it's a tool, if we are lucky it's a good tool (most of the time is a shitty tool), but it's not the final goal, it's not the endpoint of everything. It seems that… · franco_vazza · 2

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