This extremely useful report from Ada Lovelace et al has lists of "AI" stuff that the public actually encounter - it just predate the hysteria about LLMs so it might change (a bit) if people were re-surveyed (though I doubt it, as this was well constructed being about lived experience more than hearsay and fiction)
nevertheless, it suggests we might want to assess the public readiness to cope with various new AI tech as it (slowly) deploys....
we can look at it through several lenses - the lens of every day includes smart devices (home, phone, health/fitness) and services (cloud/social/media - recommenders etc), and workplace (better software that reduces slog on boring tasks and integrates things nicely - especially stupid stuff like travel/expense claims, meeting&document org/sharing, fancy tricks to improve virtual meeting experiences etc), then there's state interventions (in the report above, face recog, but what about tax surveillance and the like).
of course, there's the trivial lens - that of your camera phone:-) enhanced by some clever lightfield tricks etc etc...
but if we are thinking longer term (5-50 years), what are the key lessons people should be internalising to reduce future shock?
to be honest, I have no idea, and I think climate is far more important than worrying about the LLM taking your job. unless you are a really bad wordmith.
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