It is interesting, IMO, that with AI we see the opposite of the usual trend; the fancy new disruptive technology seems to be liked more by the older crowd, and less by the younger ones.

30 % increase in preformance? or "we WOn'T nEEd progRAmMers iN 3 yEars"?

You think people aren't going to want to use AI unless it does literally everything for them? That's exactly the "if something's not perfect then it must be awful" mindset I was criticizing in the comment you're responding to.

I don’t see a link to that research, but that means 38% don’t believe AI is significantly overhyped.

If my job depends on saying you are correct... Mr. FaceDeer you are always correct, the most correct ever.

You are now arguing that the source that you yourself brought into this discussion is no good.

This is ridiculous.

What does the cybertruck have to do with any of this? This is nonsensical.

So we've moved from "no tech-savvy people use AI!" to "lots of tech-savvy people use AI, but many of them fail to make it profitable!"

The Commerce Institute puts that 95% figure in perspective, about 65.3% of all businesses fail by their tenth year. That's not focusing just on a particular industry that's the most unknown and volatile one, that's everything, including fields that have been well known and understood for decades. And I should also note, your source said 95% had yet to grow their revenue, not that 95% had failed - it's only been a year or two for most.

Your own source provides some other bits of information that support my view, too. Just look past the bias in how it's worded.

Previous tests show even the most advanced AI products successfully complete only about 30 percent of assigned office tasks.

Wow, only 30% of office tasks can be handled by AI? Clearly a useless technology, throw it away.

Or maybe 30% is actually quite an impressive number. Wouldn't you like something that handles 30% of your routine work for you?

Gartner’s survey of 163 business executives found that half have abandoned plans to dramatically cut customer service staff by 2027.

So, half of them haven't abandoned those plans.

Research from GoTo and Workplace Intelligence found that 62 percent of workers believe AI is “significantly overhyped.”

I don't see a link to that research, but that means 38% don't believe AI is significantly overhyped.

I never said everyone liked AI, just that lots of tech-savvy people did. I think 38% would count as null

Basically, you're falling into the trap of assuming if something's not perfect and not universally loved then it must be awful and universally hated. Communities like this reinforce that view, but the real world outside these digital walls is not like that.

Fortunately the one saving grace of the Fediverse in this regard is that you can see both the upvote and downvote totals for a comment, not just the net difference between them. So even though it's clear what the majority view is - "AI bad, everyone hates it, and you're bad for suggesting it could possibly be otherwise!" - I can still see that there are a minority who appreciate my perspective as well. So I continue rolling that boulder up the hill, for the benefit of those who might otherwise only see the "nobody wants AI!" messaging and think it might be true.

Of course, no true Scotsman likes AI.

Data for the claim that lots of tech-savvy people are developing and using AI? Some of the biggest tech companies in the world right now have an AI focus. NVIDIA, OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, they're all making massive use of AI. If you want to discount "corporate" tech-savvy people, This page indicates 15 million developers are using GitHub Copilot. Linus Torvalds has spoken in favor of using AI to maintain Linux, if you'd like someone specific and big-name as an example.

"Upholding slavery longer than any democracy" is especially true considering it's still permitted in the United States, their 13th constitutional amendment merely put an extra easy-to-satisfy condition on it. You merely need to be convicted of a crime to be made a slave.

What a coincidence, the US has the largest prison population in the world, surpassing even China despite China being an authoritarian country with ~3.5 times the population. And that prison population is disproportionately dark-skinned. Who'd have guessed it.

I am looking forward to the day where USA isn't an influence on the rest of the world like it used to be.

Fortunately they seem to be speed-running that now.

Most people in tech that I know hate AI

Emphasis added. We all live inside social bubbles, if one wants to talk about what most people in general believe then one must use data from beyond that. Otherwise you're going to get a very biased sample, since we generally choose to associate with people who share our own personal values.

Why do you say that tech savvy people are "most opposed to AI?" Don't conflate "the membership of this small social media bubble called 'technology'" with tech-savvy people in general. Lots of tech savvy people are developing and using AI, where else do you think it's coming from?

The problem here is that we've got a small crowd with a strong opinion, constantly shouting their opinion to each other and making an unfriendly environment to anyone who doesn't share that opinion. So of course it seems like "everyone" shares that opinion, you never see otherwise.

Basically, the US is impossible to negotiate with right now. Probably for quite some time to come, until they've been sufficiently humbled by the consequences of their actions. So anyone hoping for a meaningful trade deal that's even slightly fair is going to be waiting for the condition "the United States learns humility". Good luck on that.

This word "optional", I do not think it means what you think it means.