• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    This is just based on a survey of researchers (not even AI researchers specifically) where they were asked if they think it’ll happen or not and they gave anything from vague predictions to complete gut-feeling guesses back.

    It’s a worthless article. Not that I even needed to click to find that out.

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      10 months ago

      83% of statisticians polled say you cannot predict future events from the statistical results of an opinion poll, which means you can still make those predictions 17% of the time. Maybe this is one of that 17%?

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          10 months ago

          Bartlet: Sweden has a 100% literacy rate, Leo. 100%! How do they do that?

          McGarry: Well, maybe they don’t and they also can’t count.