Half of Americans now use AI chatbots, up from 33% in the summer of 2024.
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15% of Americans are trying to sell something AI.
Nah, it’s probably just 10% to 12%. There are always some people that will say the most absurd things in a poll, either for trolling or because they got something wrong.
Might just be the people who fall on their knees to suck off billionaires
You could ask if elephants run beaver pelt farms on the moon, and you’ll still get some people saying yes
US citizens are far less optimistic about AI than about Donald fucking Trump.
We don’t like it, we don’t think that it is good for us, but we still use it.
Sounds like drugs to me, no?
Idk my boss never required me to use drugs.
Put up a leaderboard
Congratulations to Kyle for doing all the drugs! Better luck next month everyone else
Ugh. We have a leaderboard and now in our self employee reviews we have to answer:
How has AI improved your productivity? Where do you see future opportunities?
And I have to make something up. I can’t answer that it hasn’t helped. I don’t want to get fired.
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Drugs make you productive, so in some places like south asia employees are praised for doing them.
Eh, drugs tend to start out fun, then stop being fun when they take over your life. AI sucks balls right out of the gate.
In the Alpha Cenauri game there was a wonder you could build called The Longevity Vaccine. If you were a planned economy two sad citizens were made happy at every city. Amazing. If you were Green economy it made happy one per base. Amazing.
If you were capitalists, the base that built it made a bunch of money and nothing else. It’s a lot of money, but isn’t global.
It’s the only wonder like that. And I’ve been thinking of it more lately.
And most of those are probably higher ups at the big corporations.
Trust me. I know. The more you go up the ladder the more deluded they become.
Almost like AI psychosis is a reflection of corporate yes man psychosis.
I wonder what the results would have been if they hadn’t combined “very” and “somewhat” results. There’s a lot of nuance there that would still be poorly reflected with a gradient, so removing it seems like an odd decision.
Most of the people I talk to about AI seem to either think it has potential but is often being poorly utilized, or they dislike it entirely. I don’t know too many people who are unequivocally positive about it. Maybe they’re right-wingers.
Probably the only beneficial AI are open source. Are there such any?
I think there was once … but the billionaires got to it.
There’s definitely a can vs should conversation that our society seems incapable of.
“wow look at this terrible thing we’re collectively doing. It’s a shame we can’t just… you know… not do that but oh well.”
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/mental-illness
And 23.1% of Americans live with some sort of mental illness.
Ah yes
Pew poll
Wonder what the numbers would be on the Internet positively impacting society, as AI has a lot of the same harms and benefits of the Internet. It gives people easy access to a lot more information, but it also gives them access to a lot more bullshit.
Even after we’ve had years for it fully develop IDK if I’d say the Internet is positively impacting society.
10 years ago i would have said the internet was absolutely a net positive. The internet today is not like what it used to be. But i think that’s way more because of late stage capitalism than it is the concept/technology of the internet itself. LLMs as a concept/technology have very few use cases that can positively impact society imo.
Management at the horrible mega-corp I work at is extremely frothy about AI. They just did a big all-hands where they said they want 100% adoption of AI. Whatever that means.
