BIG report out from Stanford on the state of AI. https://aiindex.stanford.edu/
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I wanted to understand the data better that influenced #10. I thought it was really interesting that the US was so massively pessimistic about AI (35% feel positive in US compared to top country at 78%). The likely reason behind this makes that observation much less interesting. From the full report:
Online samples in Brazil, Chile, mainland China, Colombia, India, Malaysia,
Mexico, Peru, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and Turkey tend to be more
urban, educated, and/or affluent than the general population.
So basically the responses on this survey are mostly showing how wealthy and educated the respondents are rather than how similarly educated/wealthy people feel across countries.
It’s disappointing that an organization whose only mission is to run surveys puts out results like this.
I have too much time this morning apparently and I was frustrated enough to demonstrate this. There’s an inverse relationship between % of respondents positive about AI and the total % of population that has access to the internet in that country. I put this together in Excel to show this.
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in any case I believe negative connotation of AI is driven by fear. Fear is created in many ways. Interesting results 
put it on twitter!
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Agreed that correlation isn’t causation. And it could be that higher access to internet means you consume a lot more info about AI, which tends to be negative and clickbaity. But this still isn’t really meaningful to show if the point is to show differences between countries.
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Awesome