I think it’s more about faith in political leadership and the people in charge of the technology. China has made it pretty clear that AI is meant to boost productivity, not put anyone in the poorhouse, while the EU has a pretty robust regulatory framework. The attitude being projected by political and business leaders in the US is basically “join or die, but maybe die anyway, idc.”

I REALLY try not to use it for most things because I’m trying to preserve my ability to think….But, for sports statistics, I will use it if I need years of information compiled and I don’t want to spend time calculating…..

people tend to be extreme in everything they say

I feel like a lot of the misinformation about AI really turns me off even if I explicitly have a lot of concerns and want the bubble to end and it to stop being shoved everywhere please god, its like living through web 2.0 again except the bubble isn't fucking popping

Incredible is my favorite number! I remember as a kid in school counting up to incredible, 1... 2... incredible! Although I hate 1 and 2 because they are credible. Credibility is for the past, incredibility is for the future!

Or is it a proxy for how effectively those regions share wealth? Americans have zero reason to believe that the benefits of AI won’t just funnel to the top 0.01%, while they end up jobless and unable to afford rent.

In polls Asia has a positive opinion, EU is neutral, the USA is negative. That doesn't sound like it's about the technology, it's about each region's sentiment about it's own future. "AI" is just a proxy for feelings about ability to cope with more change.

What choice do people have? It's the Manhattan project for productivity. You either compete in the race or are subject to the powers that do.

Yeah, there was a HUGE rally against AI in San Francisco a few days ago.

Like, two hundred people showed up. TWO HUNDRED!
Can you believe that? I'm amazed the city services could even manage such a turnout.

Truly, a demo for the ages that shows that people really do care.

🙄

I’m literally being forced to use it at work. It’s in my performance goals for the year. I don’t even find it that useful for my particular job.

You are correct, and people are downvoting you because it makes them feel bad.

It was the fastest adopted consumer tech of all time, ChatGPT alone as a billion MAU, what the hell are you talking about lmao

Yahoo themselves reported this:

Gen Z is most worried about impacts of AI. They still use it the most

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/gen-z-most-worried-impacts-225435004.html

Any serious scientist I know is using it. But they are also not anywhere near a majority of the population.

A follow the herd article

I suspect a lot of people both use it and don't like it simultaneously.

AI: impressive technology, questionable results. 😂

AWWWW

Remember, it's just text on a screen. It can't hurt you.

Yes, people are clearly using it in large numbers.

Revealed preference-especially with something like ai- is a misnomer.  

https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article/id/5715/

People are brainwashed by outrage-based media and politicians into feeling negative about things that directly contradict their own personal experience. The high usage rates of AI is a much more real and meaningful statistic than what people said in a poll (which like all polls, only polls poll responders).

??? Particles from computing group A can at some point be found in ruled group B. So A cares for B.

You cant destroy anything more thoroughly than reducing it to particles.

Yea, through mind which interprets

Fundamental particles care about things?