Researchers from the University of Rochester led by Jiebo Luo, a professor of computer science and the Albert Arendt Hopeman Professor of Engineering, used ChatGPT and natural language processing techniques to analyze the themes and sentiments of 33,912 comments in 388 unique subreddits in the roughly six months following the generative AI tool’s launch in November 2022. ...
“The tech community’s opinions were either strongly positive or strongly negative, more so than the non-tech community” says Luo. “I think the polarization is due to the commenters’ personal knowledge of the issues. You see that play out among some of the tech celebrities as well, with people like Geoffrey Hinton, one of the pioneers of deep learning, being very pessimistic, and others like Sam Altman [the CEO of OpenAI] being far more optimistic.” ...
See the findings here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0736585324000625?via%3Dihub
See the full story here; https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/artificial-intelligence-ai-reddit-technology-614602/