Shocking: People working on a field more likely than people not working on that field to say that said field is good for the country.
In other news, water boils at 100°C.
In other other news: The planet is burning alive and pushing blindly glorified, inefficient and power hungry word calculators won’t necessarily make that better.
“AI experts” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. “The AI experts surveyed are those who were authors or presenters at an AI-related conference in 2023 or 2024 and live in the U.S.”. So basically people who are part of the snake oil business.
What an absurdly misleading and generally useless poll.
AI has the potential to make most work optional in the long run. Humans have the potential to not use this for a global, eternal vacation full of rich experiences and artistic expression, but a reason to let everyone die that is not needed anymore
Automation does. Not AI. We can automate work but a language model will not take away the work just the communication.
