Definitely a "citation needed" moment I think. Friday, I was with a
lot of 12 year olds all firmly of the opinion that it's a "way to get
intelligence/information" but it's not actually intelligent. (FWIW
in UK they say "for real life intelligent") I noted this distinction.
Or rather, I noted because that's what they're taught. So teachers,
naturally pass on the commonsense position that "it's still just a
computer". That means waiting for funerals will not settle the matter
either. That's not to say a significant sect of more credulous "AI
worshippers" will not emerge.
There was a paper a while back on AI usage at work among engineers and it was very strongly correlated to age. This is not surprising, technology adoption is always very dependent on age. (None of this tells you if the technology is a net good)
Definitely a "citation needed" moment I think. Friday, I was with a lot of 12 year olds all firmly of the opinion that it's a "way to get intelligence/information" but it's not actually intelligent. (FWIW in UK they say "for real life intelligent") I noted this distinction. Or rather, I noted because that's what they're taught. So teachers, naturally pass on the commonsense position that "it's still just a computer". That means waiting for funerals will not settle the matter either. That's not to say a significant sect of more credulous "AI worshippers" will not emerge.