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by velcrovan 23 days ago
OK, but we're talking about people who are "against AI". Are you saying that opposition to AI might help people lose interest in it? I'm not aware of an example of opposition to a useful application of math that caused people to lose interest. It didn't happen with public key encryption, for example. Can you explain further how you see "hating AI" (in the sense of TFA) will cause a loss of interest?

> Don't see the Mandelbrot set around much these days.

Was computing the mandlebrot set ever shown to be broadly and commercially useful in some way?