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Most U.S. adults don't believe benefits of AI outweigh the risks, new survey finds (www.axios.com)
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The majority of U.S. adults don't believe the benefits of artificial intelligence outweigh the risks, according to a new Mitre-Harris Poll released Tuesday.

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[–] walrusintraining@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What companies have decided to call AI is not at all the same as what AI used to refer to and what science fiction stories refer to.

[–] flossdaily@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

GPT-4 absolutely is on the spectrum of true artificial general intelligence.

We have arrived.

[–] kromem@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

But it's being used today by doctors to rewrite patient notes to sound more empathetic.

What SciFi depiction of AI had it being used by humans in order to be more empathetic than humans?

We really got it wrong badly in terms of predicting what it would look like and what it actually is.