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It then goes on to say you should target ads for AI to people who don't know anytime about AI, since they'll see it as magical and buy in. Kinda gross, if you ask me.

That's marketing summarized: sell feelings, not facts.

Check most ads for cars, perfumes, airlines, even food. They don't focus on what they do better, but on how you will feel while using them. Even when they put some actual data here and there, it's often disguised as part of the "feel better" narrative.

now that you pointed it out, it feels backwards because you can learn more about a thing, but can't actively learn less, so "knowing less" reads as reversing a one way proess.

Speaking as a researcher in the AI/ML space, you see an interesting divergence at the upper end of familiarity. Some focus on the rapid recent growth of the technology and are quite enthusiastic about it, but others (myself included) focus much more on its limitations, especially driven by the type/quality of the training data used to make the models. I think it comes from different backgrounds prior to learning the tech. Computer science people tend to be in group one, whereas other scientists (biologists, physicists...) that adopt ML as a tool are more likely to be in group two. To be clear, all of this is my personal experience from personal interactions and literature review in graduate school, not some large scale survey.

Maybe. People with more technical knowledge should understand that LLMs aren't magic or sentient and have some severe limitations. Hell, I have been tinkering with ML and ANNs for a better part of 15 years or so and they can be extremely useful. (I am no expert and never indend to be.)

It's the marketing wank, scams, art theft and all the bullshit that pisses me off now. In that regard, I am squarely in the "Fuck AI" category. There is absolutely nothing phenomenal that has come of this recent bubble in the commercial space. AI generated images are mostly trash, articles are riddled with gross factual errors, phishing and other scams are more realistic (and maybe even more dynamic) now and public forums contain even more annoying bots. And the worst bit is that AI generated media, like music, is just a collection of averaged values with no originality.

That bell curve represents something but it isn't IQ.

it’s marketing research analyzing human behavior. your comment is wrong and the article certainly has meaning.