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Trust in AI technology and the companies that develop it is dropping, in both the U.S. and around the world, according to new data from Edelman shared first with Axios.

Why it matters: The move comes as regulators around the world are deciding what rules should apply to the fast-growing industry. “Trust is the currency of the AI era, yet, as it stands, our innovation account is dangerously overdrawn,” Edelman global technology chair Justin Westcott told Axios in an email. “Companies must move beyond the mere mechanics of AI to address its true cost and value — the ‘why’ and ‘for whom.’”

  • LupertEverett@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    So people are catching up to the fact that the thing everyone loves to call “AI” is nothing more than just a phone autocorrect on steroids, as the pieces of electronics that can only execute a set of commands in order isn’t going to develop a consciousness like the term implies; and the very same Crypto/NFTbros have been moved onto it so that they can have some new thing to hype as well as in the case of the latter group, can continue stealing from artists?

    Good.

    • mindbleachEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      as the pieces of electronics that can only execute a set of commands in order isn’t going to develop a consciousness like the term implies

      Let’s not pull Chinese Room bullshit into criticism of starry-eyed empty suits. Some of these autocorrect networks are doing math. They had to develop enough complexity, just from scanning text, to store, manipulate, and combine numeric concepts - the same way you do.

      This exact setup is not gonna achieve general intelligence, but we can only say that confidently because it’s one equation. Get some self-modifying loops in there and shit can get weird.