I work in IT, part of which is AI training - so I see how widespread these tools are. But surveys have shown there is a stark difference in how many people use it and how many people trust it. In Australia, 4% of people say they trust AI companies with data [1]
This is also one of the first "new technologies" that the older generations are far more optimistic about than younger generations. In the US, only 22% of Gen Z are optimistic about the technology, and that number is dropping [2]
Just for anyone else reading, I would say it is inaccurate to say it is a different front-end over Google. They pull from a range of search engines, but also run their own web crawlers and indices. It's the closest thing to a fully new search engine we've had so far.
I also work in music production (for video games) and fully switched to Linux + FOSS about a year ago.
I'd say it is a lot more doable if you make electronic styles of music. Harder if you make classical styles, as many of the big sample libraries don't support Linux yet.
Allen AI do not get enough love. They are doing GenAI how it should have always been done.
In fact, if the frontier companies had taken their approach, it would have started much slower, but I think we would be far more advanced by 2035. Instead we have a majority of society that wants to see AI fail.
Even if Dario and Altman originally believed what they were saying, their scaretactics worked wonders for investment. Their companies are now incredibly incentivized to keep the AI Apocalypse narrative going further and further. It is hard to imagine them stopping, as that may lose them investment.
The last 10 years have been a decade of Big Tech Vaporware. NFTs and the Metaverse were assured to be the future. Once this narrative fails too (which I am almost certain is inevitable) I think society's love affair with Technology being the solver-of-all-things will finally fracture.
I do think the last 100 years' assumption of "it's physical material or it doesn't exist" should not be so easily accepted as fact.
It's like saying love, or nation states, or music doesn't exist. These things exist as much as it can matter to human experience, but you can't explain them by materiality alone.
This is the same argument I hear about too-fast AI rollouts.
"If we don't adopt AI, then we will lose to the business that does."
It is so obvious how competition dynamics naturally ends up as a fight to the bottom, and yet so many people are happy enough clocking in to this grind, then trying to forget about it the moment they clock off.
I totally understand this from a survival standpoint - but choosing to work at Meta is likely not "the only job you could get"
This is likely more to do with data security than feature set.
M365 Copilot is the only provider that offers some level of confidence that data will stay within tenancy bounds.
For a lot of businesses outside of the US, using other cloud models is considered a serious data risk.
Looks very interesting! I stumbled across your webpage a few months ago while looking into the state of peer-to-peer. Glad to see p2p projects are still active.
Small businesses would become hyperspecialized, and industries would be spread across networks of small businesses - not all internal to a single big one.
It can seem inefficient at first, but would like be much more resilient to supply chain and other disruptions.
Totally. As I've commented elsewhere, they thought it would be a great time screwing over artists and other culture works to make quick bucks and outrun the law.
Turns out that culture workers are a big chunk of who sets the narrative for the mainstream, and especially younger generations.
It's becoming embarrassing to watch