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TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

This is just based on a survey of researchers (not even AI researchers specifically) where they were asked if they think it’ll happen or not and they gave anything from vague predictions to complete gut-feeling guesses back.

It’s a worthless article. Not that I even needed to click to find that out.

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themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
83% of statisticians polled say you cannot predict future events from the statistical results of an opinion poll, which means you can still make those predictions 17% of the time.

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- hoot@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  67% of statistics are made up
  
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  - themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    Bartlet: Sweden has a 100% literacy rate, Leo. 100%! How do they do that?
    
    McGarry: Well, maybe they don’t and they also can’t count.
    
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