A respected source in the community says that a "shocking number" of frontier AI researchers are not using AI tools—not even their own. Coincidentally, a new Substack survey has found that half of the platform's writers do. In other words: forward-minded nerds are not into the cutting-edge technology they themselves make while the self-serious literary crowd dips on it.
In other words: forward-minded nerds are not into the cutting-edge technology they themselves make while the self-serious literary crowd dips on it. How can we reconcile this paradox. (Disclaimer: the former is anecdotal evidence from someone I trust; a "shocking number" doesn't necessarily mean "most" researchers and probably doesn't.
(Disclaimer: the former is anecdotal evidence from someone I trust; a "shocking number" doesn't necessarily mean "most" researchers and probably doesn't. The latter comes from a statistical calculation on a sample of 2,000 writers; I will henceforth take both as faithful inferences of the current state of affairs.