Yeah...especially all that bullshit about "algorithmic intelligence" and how "data is taking over the world." Data doesn't do shit. Data sits in a huge pile (or, more accurately, many huge piles that are very hard to merge even if the companies/governments were to allow you to access them and try).

The biggest thing that bothers me about all this is how often amateurs conflate machine learning with AI. There is not now and will not be for a very long time even a tiny artificial intelligence. Sure, machine learning is doing some very impressive things these days--but it is always one very very specific learning approach and training set to solve one or a few closely related tasks. There is no way at present to combine or generalize all of these into one superintelligence that will spontaneously devise new goals and teach itself how to learn them. The most general case imo is something like Watson, and it still has specific, limited applications. If you're terrified of that, sure, panic about the future of AI.