The majority of U.S. adults don’t believe the benefits of artificial intelligence outweigh the risks, according to a new Mitre-Harris Poll released Tuesday.

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    Generally, people are wary of disruptive technology. While this technology has potential to displace a plethora of jobs for the sake of increased productivity, companies won’t be able to move product if unemployment skyrockets.

    Regardless of what people think, the Pandora’s box of AI is opened and now the only way forward is to adapt.

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      Yes.

      All our science fiction stories prepared us for a world where AI was only possible with a giant supercomputer somewhere, or some virus that exists beyond human control, spread throughout the internet.

      We were not prepared for the reality that all at once, any average Joe could create an AI on their home PC.

      We absolutely can’t go backwards, and right now we’re are in the most important race in history, against every other country and company to create the best AI.

      Whoever can make a self-replicating, self-improving AI first will rule the world. Or rather its AI will.

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        What companies have decided to call AI is not at all the same as what AI used to refer to and what science fiction stories refer to.

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          GPT-4 absolutely is on the spectrum of true artificial general intelligence.

          We have arrived.

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            But it’s being used today by doctors to rewrite patient notes to sound more empathetic.

            What SciFi depiction of AI had it being used by humans in order to be more empathetic than humans?

            We really got it wrong badly in terms of predicting what it would look like and what it actually is.