A new poll by the Pew Research Center has found that Americans are getting extremely fed up with artificial intelligence in their daily lives.
A whopping 53 percent of just over 5,000 US adults polled in June think that AI will “worsen people’s ability to think creatively.” Fifty percent say AI will deteriorate our ability to form meaningful relationships, while only five percent believe the reverse.
While 29 percent of respondents said they believe AI will make people better problem-solvers, 38 percent said it could worsen our ability to solve problems.
The poll highlights a growing distrust and disillusionment with AI. Average Americans are concerned about how AI tools could stifle human creativity, as the industry continues to celebrate the automation of human labor as a cost-cutting measure.
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Of course. Have you used it? It sucks.
Great, now go tell your children why and educate the next generation
Thats not how kids work. You have to tell them you LOVE AI, and then they’ll hate it, just to rebel.
Honestly the fact that most adults hate it so much makes me think the kids are gonna love it
My company pays for GH Copilot and Cursor and they track your usage. My usage stats glitched at one point I guess showing that I hadn’t used it for a week and I got a call from my manager
“Why aren’t you using AI?”
“Uhhhhhh…core fundamental difference of ethics?”
Any day now the bubble will burst and we will move onto the next hype train.
Last time it was ‘The Cloud’, now it’s ‘AI’, I wonder what useless ongoing payment bullshit they will try to sell us next.
Last one was blockchain.
Did the cloud bubble ever burst though?
It didn’t ‘burst’ so much as deflate as businesses realised paying $200,000 upfront for their own servers instead of $20,000 every month was better in the long run
The cloud still has a clear and defined use case for a lot of tangible things, but AI is just nebulous ‘it will improve productivity’ claims with no substance
businesses realised paying $200,000 upfront for their own servers instead of $20,000 every month was better in the long run
Not even the long run. 11 months is when you’d pay $220,000 which is MORE than $200,000.
So not even a year until you’re losing money.
It never burst explosively, just kinda slowly deflated into being normal and useful. AI won’t do that; too much money (HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS!!!) has been pumped in too quickly for anything other than an explosively catastrophic collapse of the market. At this point, it’s a game of Nuclear Chicken between VC firms and AI firms to see who blinks first and admits the whole thing is a loss. Don’t worry, though, the greater US economy will likely crumble significantly too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
The NFT bubble bursted explosively.
“Contrary to expectations revealed in four surveys, cross-country data and six additional studies find that people with lower AI literacy are typically more receptive to AI,” the paper found.
Ouch.
The illiteracy and ignorance is intentional.
Lower AI literacy being… like people who barely understand how to use a computer, or people who aren’t actively developing the AI systems of the future?
You can click through to the article on the research or the research itself…
Literacy in this article is talking about the depth of understanding about the mechanics behind AI, even if barely below the surface. That people who learn basic concepts like it being a statistical regurgitation machine tend to dislike it when compared to people who think a gnome wizard with encyclopedic knowledge and agency has moved into their computer.
I read “low AI literacy” as being unable to discern AI images/writing from something made by a human. Like a Turing test, maybe.
Dunning-Kruger, but AI.
AI technically has no knowledge but will speak with authority on any topic hallucinating to fill gaps.
Though for the humans it’s, “The more i learn the more obvious your shortcomings” which is really more of a Dunning-Kruger corollary.
Chat-DK
I wouldn’t be surprised if a significant portion of that 29% that say it’s good for productivity are managers or business owners.
I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of them clicked the wrong thing. Or couldn’t read in the first place.
Or they haven’t realized increased perceived productivity is a bad thing. The goalpost is always moving for demanded worker productivity. Oh the invention of the computer can increase productivity by 100 times? No, you’re not getting a less work utopia, instead, guess how much productivity you’re now expected to produce? Oh the invention of the internet can increase productivity by 1000 times? Oh shoot, guess ya gotta get back to work to make those gains!!!
It’s just like Adam Blumpied always used to say…
BACK TO WORK, DICKHEAD!
You can compare productivity to wage gains since the 80s. It’s quite bleak.
Says you. I just got back from a trip where I watched a lady hand key 100 workers hand written time cards into a computer system. I’m sure that person would be much more content if she wasn’t sitting in a cave all day slowly giving herself carpal tunnel.
The better way would be to leverage technology so workers could scan themselves in, then train the admin to review for anomalies.
No, we must return to the traditional system: old-timey mechanical punch card systems - literally punch in, punch out.
I have this wonderful image of people working at a software company being forced, for some stupid reason, to use an actual mechanical punchclock system.
You’re both right because you’re talking about completely different things.
I wouldn’t call it good for productivity but it can be useful but regime propaganda greatly overstates how useful it is.
They are acting like you are getting an entire workshop but it is closer to get a tool kit you give to a high schooler.
It is inherently flawed due to the tech relying on statistical predictions so it can’t tell wrong from right.
Which makes useless unless you already know the right answer.
If they had polled elsewhere, they might have gotten similar results.
About nobody loves AI, except for some greedier-than-smart managers and AI addicts.
As they should.
