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>Non-tech people getting very excited about it and constantly babbling about how this is a great

My experience is the opposite. Non-techy people are unimpressed. If they want to see an image of a dragon, they can put the word in Google Image Search and get just that, so what's so special about Stable Diffusion?

Meanwhile, (to paraphrase a comment I read on this website) many of us, techy people still cannot pick our jaws from the floor since April when Dalle2 was introduced.

Of course, it's fine to be not-interested and I get how annoying the current hn discussions must be for some.

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I got my dad to request an André Derain style painting of a cowboy riding a dodo bird. That image most probably didn't exist anywhere before the prompt. I can say the excitement was really real when the output came out! You just have to guide non-tech people into what the tool can do.

I agree. I showed ChatGPT for a teacher, and they were mildly interested but pointed out some flaws in the lesson plans it created for their subject. Then again AI generated limerick answers to the questions in the AI generated lesson plan were a hit.

They said maybe they could try it out too but lost most of the interest when I mentioned a user account would be needed. While I am, as you said, still bemused with the speed of this change hitting us.

AI definitely falls into the category of business people asking me to use it in our technology.

A couple of weeks ago I had to write out how we could leverage AI/ML in our software in spite of the fact that we have a mountain of problems that they aren't a good fit for to get through first.

The last time I remember the business trying to force specific technologies into products like this was the blockchain craze of around 2017.

If CIO.com says 9 out of 10 leaders are implementing AI/ML in their business, do you want to be the 10th?

Unfortunately this is the answer. This happened with a lot of tech out there.

Yep this matches my experience too. Me showing non tech people so far is a bit of a let down, at least for a few minutes until they understand better what they could do with it

Same here. I've been showing it to my computer science students and most of my freshmen seem pretty uninterested, but my more advanced students had a much stronger reaction. I also found that my students tended to suggest really simple prompts at first which don't really show off what the tech is actually capable of. I've had to help a lot by adding more stipulations or details to their prompts to get a response that actually got their attention.

> My experience is the opposite. Non-techy people are unimpressed.

In fact I find that Non-techy people are completely unaware of this tech or what it can do. Which frankly is frightening.

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