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China offers an alternative to Western ‘technofeudalism’ (www.scmp.com)

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[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

But the global innovation order is shifting. According to the latest Edelman Trust Barometer, change is under way not only in technical capability but also in public sentiment. In China, 72 per cent of people trust artificial intelligence (AI), compared to 32 per cent in the United States and 28 per cent in the United Kingdom. Similar patterns hold across India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand as developing Asian markets consistently outperform Western and developed peers on public trust in innovation.

that's pretty wild as a difference

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In other words, people living in a dystopia are less optimistic about the future.

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 month ago

Perfect summary of the situation.

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Generative AI is not an inherently evil technology. If I had any trust in Western institutions whatsoever I wouldn't have as much of an issue with it.

[–] BigBoyKarlLiebknecht@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago (8 children)

100-com It could be a tool with amazing potential. The latest Steve Yegge blog post is one of the most depressing things I’ve read about software engineering in years…

This turned out to be the biggest surprise of the new world: agentic coding is addictive. You will hear it more and more often, because it bewitches people once they've got the hang of it. Agentic coding is like a slot machine, where each of your requests is a pull of the lever with potentially infinite upside or downside. On any given query, you don't know if it's going to one-shot everything you wished for, or delete your repo and send weenie pics to your grandma.

Every time something good happens, which is often, you get rewarded with dopamine. And when something bad happens, also often, you get adrenaline. The intermittent reinforcement of those dopamine and adrenaline hits creates the core addictive pull. It can become near-impossible to tear yourself away. We had to drag several vibe coders off stage at a conference I was at recently. As we escorted them away from the podium, they would still be wailing, "It'll work on the next try!"

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How do you know if you're doing AI right at your company? We've noticed that the companies that are winning with AI – the ones happy with their progress – tend to be the ones that encourage token burn. Token spend per developer per unit time is the new health metric that best represents how well your company is doing with AI: an idea proposed by Dr. Matt Beane and playing out in the field as we speak. I see companies saying, "If our devs are spending $100-$300 a day, that's much less than paying for another human engineer. So if AI makes our devs twice as productive, or in some cases only 50% more, we're winning."

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Amp is also more fun. It takes a different design approach, being intentionally team-centric. Amp gamifies your agentic development by making it public, with leaderboards and friendly competition, as well as liberal thread sharing. It all manages to be low-pressure

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

According to the latest Edelman Trust Barometer, change is under way not only in technical capability but also in public sentiment. In China, 72 per cent of people trust artificial intelligence (AI), compared to 32 per cent in the United States and 28 per cent in the United Kingdom. Similar patterns hold across India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand as developing Asian markets consistently outperform Western and developed peers on public trust in innovation.

I don't believe this is because Chinese bazinga AI is inherently more trustworthy, currently the AIs are all more or less comparable, you'll get a similar answer out of ChatGPT, Grok or DeepSeek on any given topic.

I think it is simply because it is inheriting trust created by the Chinese governing system. The AI in the rest of the world is inheriting distrust in the capitalist governing system.

Everyone can see how AI can be used to shape the truth. The Chinese population simply trusts that their government is going to carefully manage it to display the real truth and be positive towards the people, whereas the populations of the rest of the world believe that their governments can not be trusted to intentionally misuse it to harm themselves.

This is less about the technology itself and more about who is controlling the technology.

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