People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough?
Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM that’s designed to come up with a wider variety of responses than its mainstream rivals do.
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Key points
- At the start of the call, he said something that’s been stuck in my head since: “We often say that we’re a self-loathing AI company.
- Around the world, a love/hate attitude toward AI is very much the vibe right now.
- According to the Pew Research Center, more adults in the US think AI will have a negative impact on them personally, and on society in general, than expect a positive one.
- All these surveys paint a picture of two contradictory truths: A lot of people really do not like AI and a lot of people cannot get enough of it.
Sources (1)
- [1]People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough?MIT Technology Review (AI) · Oct 5, 08:00 AM
Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM that’s designed to come up with a wider variety of responses than its mainstream rivals do.
At the start of the call, he said something that’s been stuck in my head since: “We often say that we’re a self-loathing AI company.
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