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Anxiety around AI is growing rapidly in the US, research shows (uk.finance.yahoo.com)

submitted 1 day ago by sanitation@lemmy.radio to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Anxiety or animosity?

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago

It's happening in college students, too. We're seeing students asking for paper'n'pencil work again.

[–] sanitation@lemmy.radio 5 points 6 hours ago

Both

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 18 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (4 children)

If AI worked, we would have had self driving cars by now.

I can’t think of anything good that we have today cause of AI that we didn’t have 5 years ago.

[+] BenevolentOne@infosec.pub -6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I rode in one last month, down the highway.

Even the most pessimistic reports of human involvement still puts them in the 'mostly self-driving' camp, and I'd rather have one with a fallback than one without.

Should I disbelieve my lying eyes?

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

mostly self-driving

Yeah I wouldn’t call that self driving.

Here is a genuine question for you, how did the cost compare to an uber ride? Was it a fraction of it?

Technological leaps have always provided huge reductions of cost, I do wonder how expensive robo taxis would be compared to regular ones

[–] BenevolentOne@infosec.pub -3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think we'll ever stop moving the goal posts. You can still meet people who don't use computers and have never seen the use in them.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Moving the goal post? Self driving has the word self in it, if anything I’m insisting on keeping the goal post.

[–] BenevolentOne@infosec.pub -2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

There are 70 drivers for 3000 vehicles. Which goal is good enough for you? We'll make a note, I'll tell you when we passed it, and you can tell me why it's not real. I'm willing to wait.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 hours ago

I would have imagined self driving means 0 drivers

It would also include all driving conditions

For the record, I’m not saying that’s not impressive, I’m just going by the definition.

I honestly thought we would have automated truck drivers by now, which imo is when shit really this the fan.

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[–] ksh@aussie.zone 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Even from source documents fed to notebooklm, it has been confidently giving me wrong advice back to back. These non deterministic tools can be useful but can also be dangerous for our work.

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[–] jtrek@startrek.website 76 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm so tired of every job posting frothing at the mouth over AI. "We're ai native" , "we want employees who are excited about ai tools", "agenic workflows"

Just fuck off.

Even if all of this stuff was a real productivity increase, who is keeping that extra production? Not the workers!

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 16 hours ago

We're ai native

I always interpret it as "ai naive"

[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 19 hours ago

They always want you to be excited about things that don't benefit you in any way.

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