Comment by beloch

"So this is the weirdness of the moment. The general public has mostly not interacted with these systems. When they have, it looks like a derpy chatbot. The majority of professionals still see only a modest uplift. And a small sliver of professionals are experiencing the vertigo of the curve going vertical. And it is all happening at the same time."

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It comes down to the difference between programmers and non-programmers. If you're not coding, AI literally is a derpy chatbot that's made it harder to get search results, raised your power bill, destroyed property values in a neighborhood near you, is propping up the economy but also creating a huge bubble that could pop and destroy a lot of retirement savings, etc.. At best, it's a nuisance, but it could be a lot worse than that. The AI evangelists need to understand this, because the average person is starting to pay more attention to the downsides while still not seeing much upside.

This gap between the people seeing the curve go vertical and those who are simply growing more and more annoyed is a real problem... mainly for the people seeing the curve go vertical. If the people who are merely annoyed right now don't see some of the promised benefits soon, or if any of the negatives get worse (e.g. massive increases to greenhouse emissions), they might get angry. You probably wouldn't like having the overwhelming majority of the public angry at you. AI evangelists need to start doing better things for the majority of people or they need to address the negative consequences they're inflicting much more aggressively.