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Growing Majority of Americans Convinced That AI Is Bad for Society: Public opinion is not on the AI industry's side. (futurism.com)
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[–] 4 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I suppose some folks were saying that about hydrogen-filled zeppelins too, but it turns out that you can't just jam new tech down society's throat that way.

We now have helium and hot air airships and the tech is used way more appropriately.

I do take your point that what whipped up AI frenzy isn't just the tech, but the tech itself does needs to change before society will accept its ubiquity.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago* (2 children)

    How so, what sort of change do you imagine?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Well, the power efficiency being much better is one problem to solve. Also various laws need to make pronouncements on copyright, etc. There is also figuring out what will happen to open weight models, what will become of challenges like deepseek.

    Ultimately, ai will remain in some form, or catalyze another kind of technology, but it will certainly change tech landscape the way the printing press did.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    I think a core part of it is going to be assigning the right queries to the right models.

    Dont send recipe or 'Google this for me' queries to the latest most power hungry model, for example. Older models are already hundreds of times less computationally expensive than they were two or three years ago so the problem is already half solved in some sense.

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