@randulo "AI-powered" is neither a positive nor a negative thing; it's an empty placeholder for signalling "we're not behind the times". If this was meant to inform a consumer about the actual technology being used, they wouldn't be using such a broad concept (which would be equivalent to calling Tokyo "Asia"). AI has been used for a long time in a variety of cases under different names, but nobody was hearing about it. Now that LLMs have become all the rage and are talked about everywhere as "AI", companies are taking this as an opportunity to show relevancy. The sentiment being elicited depends on the individual's relation to the concept of "being/staying ahead" or immortality projects in general. However, it's not the same as the question of using AI (again, mostly LLMs or VLMs). Since I'm not aware about your goal with this survey, I can't really comment on what question would be more suitable to receive more accurate results, but I'm afraid that the range of interpretation for your current one is too broad to get a representative answer.

@zbender @NanoRaptor also _universal_ nude

@Gargron I know where you're coming from and partly share the sentiment myself, but I can assure you there are MANY great films being made today! One just have to look further than Hollywood's blockbusters or Netflix recommendations. Let's support the artists making that happen :)

@Bluewall when you're an AI non-profit thinking you can bring AGI before your financial runway ends

@johncarlosbaez @MartinEscardo I do wonder though if aiming to hire a person working in Maths, Physics or CS is the right call. Overseeing such crucial part of academia that _arxiv_ has become requires great understanding of cultural context and discourse, at least if the goal is to keep it the pillar that it is. While people can be brilliant at what they do, it doesn't necessarily translate well elsewhere. Of course, #NotAllFolxInSTEM but actually quite many of them are not the best when it comes to the nuances of navigating such landscapes. And unfortunately we have many examples of the disasters which happen when technical people become CEOs. I really hope _arxiv_ won't be another casualty of that.

@lw @glyph elicited a chuckle out of me

@Bluewall lmao I can't even get my brother to download Signal, where are these 99% of users rooting their iphones

@donni bold of you to assume all technical people are intelligent and never fall for conspiracies or scams

@Daojoan I've read it almost as soon as it came out and thought it was a good book (I was very young then too). A few years later, coming from STEM background I read the second book and it was _really_ bad. Somehow this didn't make me re-examine my evaluation of the first one, not until I've listened to "If Books Could Kill" podcast episode about it. So his books are not only riddled with inaccuracies, but they are also dangerous in how they trick you into false knowledge.