I would more readily label myself, if forced, as a technology optimist rather than pessimist. So I very much like this chart from the new AI Index report : Now I am not sure what explains the upturn. My guess is the “AI will take all the jobs” story is a natural first impulse for a society raised on sci-fi showing supercapable computers and robots. (Probably also “AI like Skynet will destroy humanity.) But many economists and technologists have since pushed back on that idea, and maybe their arguments are taking root. (And I have done a considerable bit […]
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