[fragmede]

Thinking "nearly everyone" has that precise definition of AI seems way more sloppy. Most people haven't even heard of OpenAI and ChatGPT still, but among people who have, they've probably heard stories about AI in science fiction. My definition of AI is any advanced computer processing, generative or otherwise, that's happened since we got enough computing power and RAM to do something about it, aka lately.

[IanCal]

Then that definition is at odds with how the field has used it for many decades.

You can have your own definition of words but it makes it harder to communicate.

[fragmede]

You're absolutely right! We're not at a conference with other practicioners in the field, we're on the Internet where anybody with an Internet connection can contribute, and the article we're commenting on didn't take the time to define the term before using it either, so here we are.

[southernplaces7]

>Most people haven't even heard of OpenAI and ChatGPT still

What? I literally don't know a single person anymore who doesn't know what chatGPT is. In this I include several elderly people, a number of older children and a whole bunch of adults with exactly zero tech-related background at all. Far from it being only known to some, unless you're living in a place with essentially no internet access to begin with, chances are most people around you know about chatGPT at least.

For OpenAI, different story, but it's hardly little-known. Let's not grossly understate the basic ability of most people to adapt to technology. This site seems to take that to nearly pathological levels.

[fragmede]

Some 37% of humans alive today have never used the Internet. Most people I talk to have heard about ChatGPT, but far fewer have heard of Nvidia.

I don't question people's ability to adapt, people are adaptible. But if you've never even heard of it, what is there to adapt to?

[southernplaces7]

You originally mentioned chatGPT, not Nvidia, different story there. Also, for the 37%, sure, if we want to go to the extremes of deeply isolated or subsistence poor communities, or countries run by deeply totalitarian regimes, you'll see plenty of people who know little or nothing about chatGPT, google, etc. I was referring to any normal or even semi-developed context that at last has widespread internet use.

Example: I live in a country that still has a great deal of deep poverty, it's what's called a "developing economy" (sort of an odd phrase since aren't all economies always still developing at all times? but I digress) and even in all but the most deeply poor rural places here, most people frequently use the internet. And I know nobody who doesn't at least know of chatGPT or about how AI can now talk to you like a person would and answer all kinds of questions, let alone not knowing about things like Google and so forth.