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The AI "well" had been so thouroughly poisoned over the last 10 years, that the average person hears AI now and equates it to the usefulness of Siri or Alexa (i
by ramesh31 3y ago
The AI "well" had been so thouroughly poisoned over the last 10 years, that the average person hears AI now and equates it to the usefulness of Siri or Alexa (i.e. functionally zero). It's going to take time for society to ingest the step function change that has occured in the last year. We can actually talk to our computers now, and obviously that's going to change everything. But it may be a more subtle shift, one where the new generation just takes that for granted from here on out and we move forward with a new normal, the same as the web was for us.
- planb 3y agoWhat average person thinks of Siri and Alexa as AI? I’ve honestly never seen that. People started talking about AI when ChatGPT entered the game.
- ramesh31 3y ago>What average person thinks of Siri and Alexa as AI? They've both been marketed as such. Like it or not these are the best that big tech could provide before the LLM era. I would include Bixby in there as an also-ran as well. They would be the only interaction that anyone would have with anything resembling AI outside of the tech world.
- theptip 3y agoNah, most people hadn’t thought much about AI as anything other than science fiction before ChatGPT. Non-technical people are reading the “stochastic parrot” articles, then trying a few superficial chat conversations and drawing their conclusions from that.
- xboxnolifes 3y agoThe only place I see AI downplayed is on HN. Everywhere else in my life the "Average person" gives one of two responses: (1) They're barely even aware of the recent AI hype, or (2) It's practically magic in how amazingly good it is.
- bookofjoe 3y ago>Hate is the consequence of fear. We fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise. — Cyril Connolly