Hater Season: Cal Newport on AI Reporting

Hater Season: Cal Newport on AI Reporting

Better Offline’s “Hater Season” - an ongoing roundtable with tech’s greatest haters - continues as Ed talks with computer science professor and writer Cal Newport about the ways in which the media fails to report the truth about AI.

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