Are You YES AI or No AI?

> I don't know if I can really trust the data. 93% of 40k+ votes are NO AI. How is that possible.

You give a question that requires nuance, forces it into a 50/50 situation and then you'll have everyone in the middle defaulting to "No" since it's closer than "Yes". Then use that as evidence for everyone hating AI.

I feel like discussiong ai with people who hated the seat belt, enjoyed smoking inside, giving babies alcohol and doing operations on babies because they couldn't feel pain.

So many more people have clear stances against AI but the energy consumption of bitcoin was seldomly a hotly debated topic.

Lets be clear, technology advances. You can embrace it and learn it and use it, or you lose.

For me most shocking thing is: I wouldn't have expected so many people getting AI wrong or not getting it at all. 20 Years of software engineering and i have never experienced a technology so weird and crazy and with such a fast progress than AI/ML/Neural Networks.

Is it perfect? No. But if you would have asked ANYONE just a few years back "Hey i give you a 100 Million dollars, you will write some software however you like and I expect it to be able to solve any problem (an easy one for the start) but i will not tell you what it will be" we would have build something like IBM Watson and it would have just failed.

but we have a breakthrough in neural networks progress. I can ask it in german, in english, in shitty english and shitty german. I can generate any picture i want, i can generate videos.

This technology bridges computer and human. Its the FIRST TIME EVER I could build something like a Star Trek Computer.

Just think this 5 or 20 years further and its clear that these models will be better, relevant better than today. You will (if still needed) be able to stand in a VR world and talk to a computer and it will understand you well enough and it will be able to generate what ever you want.

Of course we still need to solve a lot more issues but honestly, before ChatGPT it felt like we solved software but it was not clear how it will continue. There was something missing.

And the way we build out compute, can be a milestone for material science, pharma, biochemistry etc.

"No AI" come on

Aside from the fact that it kind of obviously is if you "vote" the fact that it says "Not sure yet? That's okay — vote anyway!" is kind of a give-away that this isn't going to produce anything like rigorously useful data on the question (it produces a lot of other data though!)

Software developers might be majority here in HN comments, but definitely a small minority across general population. A lot of people are negatively affected by AI: computer hardware is expensive because AI companies bought all memory, Windows 11 is crap because Microsoft reworked their operating system into AI-driven trojan horse, many people lost jobs because AI companies convinced top management of their employers’ people will be replaced with computers any day now, etc.

Because as consumers we already dont have a choice, if the only options are AI forced down my throat (Windows, search, surveillance, phones, you name it) or no AI, Im going no AI.

Thats without considering negative externalities of resource cost, operational cost, and the complete flooding of the shared internet commons with low quality slop.