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Knowing less about AI makes people more open to having it in their lives – new research (theconversation.com)
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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The rapid spread of artificial intelligence has people wondering: who’s most likely to embrace AI in their daily lives? Many assume it’s the tech-savvy – those who understand how AI works – who are most eager to adopt it.

Surprisingly, our new research (published in the Journal of Marketing) finds the opposite. People with less knowledge about AI are actually more open to using the technology. We call this difference in adoption propensity the “lower literacy-higher receptivity” link.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I'm tech savvy and I use AI daily.

Probably not the AI you think of. As it's not LLM or image generation.

But I have a security system self hosted using frigate, which uses AI models for image recognition.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So you're tech savvy and you use AI as it should be - like a tool. Not a magic genie that will spit out code for you.

[–] Hackworth 7 points 3 days ago

As a djinn, I don't appreciate this anti-genie rhetoric.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I am a system admin and one of our appliances is a HPE Alletra. The AI in it is awesome and it never tries to interact with me. This is what I want. Just do your fucking job AI, I don't want you to pretend to be a person.

[–] Feathercrown 2 points 3 days ago

They will come for you first /s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Even using LLMs isn't an issue, it's just another tool. I've been messing around with local stuff and while you certainly have to use it knowing it's limitations it can help for certain things, even if just helping parse data or rephrasing things.

The issue with neural nets is that while it theoretically can do "anything", it can't actually do everything.

And it's the same with a lot of tools like this. People not understanding the limitations or flaws and corporations wanting to use it to replace workers.

There's also the tech bros who feel that creative works can be generated completely by AI because like AI they don't understand art or storytelling.

But we also have others who don't understand what AI is and how broad it is, thinking it's only LLMs and other neural nets that are just used to produce garbage.

[–] Feathercrown 3 points 3 days ago

Image recognition has gotten crazy good