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The Searchlight Institute recently released a survey of Americans' views and usage of AI:
There is a lot of information, but the most clear take-away is that the majority of those surveyed support AI regulation.
Another result that surprises (and concerns) me is this side note:
A question that was interesting, but didn’t lead to a larger conclusion, was asking what actually happens when you ask a tool like ChatGPT a question. 45% think it looks up an exact answer in a database, and 21% think it follows a script of prewritten responses.
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