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In his recent video “The People Do Not Yearn for Automation,” The Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel explains “software brain” — thinking about the world as a series of databases that are easily manipulated to solve problems — and why that is creating a disconnect between the AI world and everyone else.
The AI world thinks that AI really can solve the world’s ills and thus anti-AI sentiment is just a marketing problem. But people who are trying to slow AI adoption have legitimate concerns about the tradeoffs and performance of the technology that software-brained people are dismissing, he says.
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