Am engineer. I use AI features in browsers, and know several others who also do. I'm looking forward to trying additional features Mozilla's going to be bringing in the future.
Basing your view of what everyone does on what everyone you know does is a perfect way to amplify the effects of a social bubble.
What does the cybertruck have to do with any of this? This is nonsensical.
So we've moved from "no tech-savvy people use AI!" to "lots of tech-savvy people use AI, but many of them fail to make it profitable!"
The Commerce Institute puts that 95% figure in perspective, about 65.3% of all businesses fail by their tenth year. That's not focusing just on a particular industry that's the most unknown and volatile one, that's everything, including fields that have been well known and understood for decades. And I should also note, your source said 95% had yet to grow their revenue, not that 95% had failed - it's only been a year or two for most.
Your own source provides some other bits of information that support my view, too. Just look past the bias in how it's worded.
Previous tests show even the most advanced AI products successfully complete only about 30 percent of assigned office tasks.
Wow, only 30% of office tasks can be handled by AI? Clearly a useless technology, throw it away.
Or maybe 30% is actually quite an impressive number. Wouldn't you like something that handles 30% of your routine work for you?
Gartner’s survey of 163 business executives found that half have abandoned plans to dramatically cut customer service staff by 2027.
So, half of them haven't abandoned those plans.
Research from GoTo and Workplace Intelligence found that 62 percent of workers believe AI is “significantly overhyped.”
I don't see a link to that research, but that means 38% don't believe AI is significantly overhyped.
I never said everyone liked AI, just that lots of tech-savvy people did. I think 38% would count as null
Basically, you're falling into the trap of assuming if something's not perfect and not universally loved then it must be awful and universally hated. Communities like this reinforce that view, but the real world outside these digital walls is not like that.
Fortunately the one saving grace of the Fediverse in this regard is that you can see both the upvote and downvote totals for a comment, not just the net difference between them. So even though it's clear what the majority view is - "AI bad, everyone hates it, and you're bad for suggesting it could possibly be otherwise!" - I can still see that there are a minority who appreciate my perspective as well. So I continue rolling that boulder up the hill, for the benefit of those who might otherwise only see the "nobody wants AI!" messaging and think it might be true.
Of course, no true Scotsman likes AI.
"Upholding slavery longer than any democracy" is especially true considering it's still permitted in the United States, their 13th constitutional amendment merely put an extra easy-to-satisfy condition on it. You merely need to be convicted of a crime to be made a slave.
What a coincidence, the US has the largest prison population in the world, surpassing even China despite China being an authoritarian country with ~3.5 times the population. And that prison population is disproportionately dark-skinned. Who'd have guessed it.
I am looking forward to the day where USA isn't an influence on the rest of the world like it used to be.
Fortunately they seem to be speed-running that now.
Why do you say that tech savvy people are "most opposed to AI?" Don't conflate "the membership of this small social media bubble called 'technology'" with tech-savvy people in general. Lots of tech savvy people are developing and using AI, where else do you think it's coming from?
The problem here is that we've got a small crowd with a strong opinion, constantly shouting their opinion to each other and making an unfriendly environment to anyone who doesn't share that opinion. So of course it seems like "everyone" shares that opinion, you never see otherwise.
Basically, the US is impossible to negotiate with right now. Probably for quite some time to come, until they've been sufficiently humbled by the consequences of their actions. So anyone hoping for a meaningful trade deal that's even slightly fair is going to be waiting for the condition "the United States learns humility". Good luck on that.
Earlier on, Mozilla released a plugin called Orbit that summarized Youtube videos with a single click. Then they shut it down. I'd love to see that back. I've found some similar plugins since then but none as elegant and integrated as Orbit was. "Chat with this page" features in general are nice when I come across a big paper or news story where I only want a specific bit of information out of it.
I use the "translate this" function quite frequently, and I'd like to see that using local models instead of relying on Google Translate. I avoid Chrome because I don't want everything to be Google dominated.
I suspect AI is still too heavyweight for this application yet, but as the advertising wars continue and advertising starts getting slipped directly into the content of pages I bet an AI-enabled adblocker would be nice.
A fact-checker AI that goes through the content of a page and adds footnotes and references would be great. I try to fact-check news stories but it's a lot of manual drudgery so I'm sure I miss a lot.
Sure, much of this could be done with plugins. Orbit was one originally. But if everybody's having to create the AI framework for plugins from the ground up that's going to result in a ton of inconsistency, extra resources wasted, and potential insecurities. I'd like Firefox to provide some kind of unified interface to plugins to let them call AIs as part of whatever they're doing so that I can pick which models I'd like them to use. I run Ollama on my computer, it provides AI inference to anything that wants to use it locally through a unified API. Something like that built into Firefox would be awesome.
And there'll likely be plenty of other new things I haven't thought of to try out. AI is a very active field, there are new models with new capabilities coming out all the time.