Fifty-seven percent of U.S. adults believe "generative AI will make my daily life better," according to a new report by Dentsu. The survey of 1,000 online adults in the United States also found that 87% of consumers claim to have some awareness of generative AI, and 61% believe they at least somewhat understand the technology. Even more interesting is that 27% of U.S. adults say they have used generative AI, and another 42% are interested in trying the technology. These tremendously positive numbers seem to support the hyperbolic interest in ChatGPT and text-to-image generators such as Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. But, there is more to this story.

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The forecast is frightening: Robots will take over all manual labor and self-generating code will automatically spin out the algorithms once developed by statisticians and programmers. What will mere mortals do all day long? Ride captive as our self-driving cars take us on a sentimental journey to see the parking lots where shopping malls used to be? Visit the local greenhouse to watch through the window as mechanical gardeners harvest hydroponic vegetables loaded onto drones optimized for doorstep delivery? Or just sit in front of a giant screen forever and ever while Amaflix Consolidated serves up an endless number of Arrested Development re-runs because AmaFlix knows that, no matter what clever new show we might tell our friends we are binge-watching, we are really just watching Arrested Development re-runs over and over again. Suffice to say: The standard error of Y estimates for X-axis values outside the range of observed data tend to be large for a reason.