hyperbolizing of AI
Numerous studies which demonstrate and explain the conceptual specificity and functional limitations of AI systems fail to discourage popular beliefs that AI can, and ultimately will, acquire mental omnipotence and hyper-functionality that science fiction and singularity speculations ascribe to the AGI or to the artificial superintelligence.

AI is neither conceptually coherent, nor clearly defined, nor fully understood.

This discourse assumes and presents AI as an idealized, coherent, clearly defined and fully understood framework which provides a reliable conceptual toolkit for understanding such complex systems as human mind and the universe.

All branches of the creative AI face a temptation to exploit the ideological authority of digital paradigm and heightened socioeconomic attention to the field. It sometimes leads to overpromising or overstating in AI science and business (prompting hyperbolic media reports), to manipulative strategies in AI art, to dubious speculations about the AI’s capabilities or consequences, and to extreme futuristic scenarios, either catastrophic or utopian

Following a long-established trend in contemporary art, AI artists are tempted to augment the impact of their works through manipulative representational discourse that usually features critical considerations or sophisticated theoretical models but suffers insufficient competence or sincerity. They sometimes saturate project descriptions with elaborate (metaphorical or literal) questions which do not necessarily match the experiential outcomes of the works.