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Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says (arstechnica.com)

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US experts who work in artificial intelligence fields seem to have a much rosier outlook on AI than the rest of us.

In a survey comparing views of a nationally representative sample (5,410) of the general public to a sample of 1,013 AI experts, the Pew Research Center found that "experts are far more positive and enthusiastic about AI than the public" and "far more likely than Americans overall to believe AI will have a very or somewhat positive impact on the United States over the next 20 years" (56 percent vs. 17 percent). And perhaps most glaringly, 76 percent of experts believe these technologies will benefit them personally rather than harm them (15 percent).

The public does not share this confidence. Only about 11 percent of the public says that "they are more excited than concerned about the increased use of AI in daily life." They're much more likely (51 percent) to say they're more concerned than excited, whereas only 15 percent of experts shared that pessimism. Unlike the majority of experts, just 24 percent of the public thinks AI will be good for them, whereas nearly half the public anticipates they will be personally harmed by AI.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 days ago

I think AI will be useful, but like any nascent technology, it will have to be accessible for the public before the everyman would adopt it. IMO, we are currently at the 2nd or 3rd stage in the picture below.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Lol they get a capable chatbot that blows everything out of the water and suddenly they are like "yeah, this will be the last big thing"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

It should. We should have radically different lives today because of technology. But greed keeps us in the shit.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago

How did they answer the question about rock and roll being a fad?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

When Miyazaki said the AI ghiblifier is an affront to art, I couldn’t help but think that before WW1, tanks were called an affront to horsemanship.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago

New cascadeur update just killed inbetweenjng jobs if its as good as the trailer, but uh I think this is a case where ai good, like yeah jobs lost but the time saved is wild for indie animators

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

https://www.sesame.com/research/crossing_the_uncanny_valley_of_voice#demo

Try this voice AI demo on your phone, then imagine if it can create images and video.

This in my opinion changes every system of information gathering that we have, and will usher in an era of geniuses, who grew up with access to the answer to their every question in a granular pictorial video response. If you want to for example learn how white blood cells work it gives you ask your chatbot for a video, and you can then tell it to put in different types of bacteria to see the response. Its going to make a lot of systems we have now obsolete.

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