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AI Experts are more likely than the public to say AI will have a positive effect on the United States (lemmy.world)

submitted 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Source: Pew Research

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

The AI experts also happen to be the ones who stand to benefit the most from AI because they are the people behind its creation. Of course they say it's good.

It's like the tobacco industry saying smoking isn't bad for you, sugar farmers saying sugar is not fattening, and the dairy industry asking if you've "got milk" to make your bones stronger.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

People are also just scared of AI for some reason

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Snake oil salesmen are claiming their product is something it's not, more at 11

[–] [email protected] 25 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Shocking: People working on a field more likely than people not working on that field to say that said field is good for the country.

In other news, water boils at 100°C.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

In other other news: The planet is burning alive and pushing blindly glorified, inefficient and power hungry word calculators won't necessarily make that better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Objectively false. Water boils at 210°F

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

212!!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry, I don't understand freedom units.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It's about the average temperature of a hot dog at a Braves game. Or 7/16ths the temp a black Ford F350 gets in a Walmart parking lot. Hope this helps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Does it have to be a Ford F350? Can't it be a different black car? Trying to understand it but I can't find the black ford f350 or the walmart parking lot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

I'm sure there are conversion charts out there, but the F in F350 stands for freedom unit. It's what the whole system is based off of.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 14 hours ago

Presumably because the "AI" that these people are working on is different from what's being shoved down our throat by aibros.

Stuff like folding proteins or whatever it is they do all day.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

So people trying to protect their jobs will say good things? Who woulda thought?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

AI has the potential to make most work optional in the long run. Humans have the potential to not use this for a global, eternal vacation full of rich experiences and artistic expression, but a reason to let everyone die that is not needed anymore

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

Automation does. Not AI. We can automate work but a language model will not take away the work just the communication.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

but a reason to let everyone die that is not needed anymore

This is literally the only realistic outcome I expect of this. Capitalists will claim the right to the entirety of the profits generated because they "own" the AI, will have by then already destoryed any social safety nets in order to have their taxes reduced, and people who can't find work will be left to die.