Craig HockenberryJun 14, 2023

I just stumbled upon a good way to answer the question "are you afraid of AI?" from folks who are less technically inclined.

Ask them if they consider the daily weather report “artificial intelligence" and if they fear it.

Same thing: a bunch of real world inputs that yield a prediction that may be right or wrong. There may be a tornado - or maybe just cloudy.

Of course, if we place to much reliance on those predictions things can go haywire.

Show threadMarcin WicharyJun 14, 2023
@chockenberry I think people might be afraid of things that are not captured by this analogy, for example losing jobs.
Show threadCraig Hockenberry

@mwichary Yeah, it doesn't cover the repercussions of the prediction technology.

The automation of weather prediction (satellites, computer models, etc.) may have had affected employment, but there's only so much you can do with a simple analogy.

Jun 14, 2023 at 6:47pmIvory for Mac