Has there ever been a sustained backlash and doubt about a new big technology like what we are seeing with AI? Where the most vocal critics are tech people?
It's similar to bitcoin, to NFTs...
It's also similar to the internet-connected device trend, though I don't remember the resistance and doubt to that being as intense. I was mostly very excited about "the internet of things" I still put wifi in places where it doesn't belong with the most flimsy of excuses.
It's just really unusual to hear some of my biggest "early adopter" friends filled with bile for AI. And well I'm right there with them. I'm irritated most by the dishonesty of the claims about what it can do. With "internet of things" the objection was not "you can't track your water bottle on the internet, it won't work the way you describe" it was more like "why would you want to do that?" and "your data will be sold to companies, you will be spied on"
Both proved to be correct.
@futurebird Yes. I think the difference is that IoT (depending on the definition of course, but in general) is totally possible and doable from a computer science, networking, information science perspective. It's the economic, and also legal and security questions that are not solved.
Wheras the current "AI" (as described by it's marketing) is not possible.
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