You can stop using AI, but this new report says you probably can't escape it - Digital Trends
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/you-can-stop-using-ai-but-this-new-report-says-you-probably-cant-escape-it/

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Just to be pedantic here... I hate it when people talk about "using AI" or people claim that they "never use AI."

That almost always conceives of AI as LLM chatbots.

Anyone who uses Google, Facebook or Instagram is "using AI"

Anyone who uses adaptive cruise control or lane-keeping function in their car is "using AI"

Anyone using Siri is "using AI"

Anyone using Google image search is "using AI"

All of these things would have been considered AI not that long ago. But for a long time, AI progress was slow enough that we just kept moving the goalposts and redefining what AI is so that the definition became, "AI is something just beyond the horizon of current capabilities."

Then the chatbots came out and that seemed like magic because it was human language and we could understand what it was doing, but not how it was doing it, so that finally got labelled as AI.

But people persist in saying it isn't AI because it isn't actually intelligent because it isn't actually thinking, but we don't even have a clear definition or understanding of what thinking is, so we don't really have the ability to say that an LLM is thinking or not.

And in any case, it is not at all clear that LLMs are or will be the most important form of AI, but they have become the Kleenex or Chlorox of AI.

All of which is to say, enough already with the, "you probably can't escape it" stuff. You can NOT escape it and you are not escaping it unless you live alone off the grid far far from the madding crowds.

I don't think we can have intelligent and necessary debates about AI until people have a better sense of what it is, what it's doing, and how they ARE using it, whether they think they are or not.