I was deeply disappointed to see Scientific Computing with the headline: ‘Avengers’ Stars Wary of Artificial Intelligence by Ryan Pearson.
The respondents are all talented movie stars but acting talent and even celebrity doesn’t give them insight into issues such as artificial intelligence. You might as well ask football coaches about the radiation hazards of a possible mission to Mars. Football coaches, the winning ones anyway, are bright and intelligent folks, but as a class, aren’t the usual suspects to ask about inter-planetary radiation hazards.
President Reagan was known to confuse movies with reality but that was under extenuating circumstances. Confusing people acting in movies with people who are actually informed on a subject doesn’t make for useful news reporting.
Asking Chris Hemsworth who plays Thor in Avengers: Age of Ultron what the residents of Asgard think about relief efforts for victims of the recent earthquake in Nepal would be as meaningful.
They still publish the National Enquirer. A much better venue for “surveys” of the uninformed.