Comment by genghisjahn

6 months ago

Neal Stephenson has a recent post that covers some of this. Also links to teachers talking about many students just putting all their work into chatgpt and turning it in.

https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/emerson-ai-and-the-for...

He links to Reddit, a site where most people are aggressively against AI. So, not necessarily a representative slice of reality.

  • I’d like to see a statistically sound source for that claim. Given how many non-nerds there are on Reddit these days, it’s unlikely that there’s any particular strong bias in any direction compared to any similar demographic.

  • Given recent studies, that does seem to reflect reality. Trust in AI has been waning for 2 years now.

    • By what relevant metric?

      The userbase has grown by an order of magnitude over the past few years. Models have gotten noticeably smarter and see more use across a variety of fields and contexts.

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