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Public trust in AI is sinking across the board (www.axios.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.'"

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[+] [email protected] -7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

ThE aI wIlL AttAcK HumaNs!! sKynEt!!

Edit: These "AI" can even make a decent waffles recipe and "it will eradicate humankind".. for the gods sake!!

It even isn't AI at all, just how corps named it Is clickbait.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

AI is just a very generic term and always has been. It's like saying "transportation equipment" which can be anything from roller skates to the space shuttle". Even the old checkers programs were describes as AI in the fifties.

Of course a vague term is a marketeer's dream to exploit.

At least with self driving cars you have levels of autonomy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Before chatgpt was revealed, this was under the unbrella of what AI meant. I prefer to use established terms. Don't change the terms just because you want them to mean something else.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

There's a long glorious history of things being AI until computers can do them, and then the research area is renamed to something specific to describe the limits of it.