Comment on American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s
echodot@feddit.uk 4 days ago
The two aren’t equivalent. One of them is an actual proven technology that definitively exists, the other one is still to prove itself.
Cocopanda@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It helps write emails and reviews and edits resumes. I have very little other use for it.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 days ago
hope you proofread those emails, least you send part of a romance novel that the AI hallucinated into being.
jasoman@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Those can be sent to me.
Cocopanda@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I do. Always. I’ve been playing with VEO. Creating a CocoPanda character. It’s been a lot of fun.
theherk@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It also helps with tons of complex tasks in the sciences like finding new protein folding algorithms.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 days ago
That right there is the problem with this discussion. They’re not even remotely similar technologies.
The ones doing protein folding are specialised limited capability AI. They are absolutely useful and very good at their jobs, but they are not the kind of AI that the public are using.
The public are using large language models and Diffusion-Based image generators. Not the narrow AI that you’re talking about.
theherk@lemmy.world 3 days ago
AI is a superset of transformers which is then a superset of LLM’s. I think I’m making the same point as you, that in the broader sense “AI” can be useful.