Anil DashI've been trying to find a name or descriptor for people who I think are looking at "AI" broadly and soberly, with a genuinely objective perspective and information that's not captured by the big tech companies but also fluent in the technology behind it. ( @simon would be the exemplar here.) What would you call this cohort? Because I think it's sort of a community without a name, which limits its impact.
Joe Crawford@anildash I don't think such people would be in a named club. They're not in a "fan club," they're not "activists against," they're not "gold prospectors," their livelihood is not dependent on a particular level of popularity of the tech.
IOW: Technologists weighing the value of a new tool against the costs of the tool.
We are in an era of loud street teams, influencers, and "true believers" (in an Eric Hoffer sense). Discourse on "is this hammer better than that hammer" has suffered for it.