The AI Hype Index: Unsexy AI

The piece introduces the "AI Hype Index", a metric intended to gauge the gap between media hype and actual progress in artificial intelligence. It references warnings from economists about AI potentially displacing jobs and highlights a recent demo by company 1X, which unveiled a pair of devices with remarkably dexterous capabilities. The article critiques the tendency to overstate AI's role in everyday tasks such as cooking.

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