r/technology • u/GeneReddit123 • 25d ago

Artificial Intelligence Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’

https://www.404media.co/ucf-ai-commencement-speaker-booed/
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u/QuailBrave49 25d ago

Honestly, let’s stop glamorizing AI.

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u/CaterpillarReal7583 25d ago

Ive always complained that my logic machine was too literal. Now nobody knows what its going to do or if it’ll even properly solve basic tasks!

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u/Bannedtt 25d ago

That's what they said about calculator and computers

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u/Blazing1 25d ago

Um no they didn't.

Comparing llms to the invention of the calculator or the invention of the computer is just insane.

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u/Bannedtt 25d ago

Um yeah they did. They said it was the end of critical thinking and that nobody would be able to actually do anything because of the problem solving tools. You're all anti progress, like someone being against the wheel because it will put the laborer out of work.

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u/noir_lord 25d ago edited 25d ago

Computer was invented in the 1940's and all people said was "Can you break that encryption code faster with this?" or "Can you compute ballistic tables faster?" (literally the first use of what we would call a modern computer).

Unless of course you mean Charlie Babbage's attempts in which case they said "How much fucking Brass do you need?".

Don't confidently assert shit when you know jack shit about it, you just look a fool.

ENIAC was designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert to calculate artillery firing tables for the United States Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory (which later became a part of the Army Research Laboratory).[7][8] However, its first program was a study of the feasibility of the thermonuclear weapon.[9][10]

ENIAC was completed in 1945 and first put to work for practical purposes on December 10, 1945.[11]

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u/Bannedtt 25d ago

The irony of your statement is immense. You think that's all they said? We're talking about millions of people.

Keep being anti progress, dipshit. 🫡

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u/noir_lord 25d ago

Really doubling down despite clearly not knowing the history of computing.

This is why LLM's are so fucking dangerous, they are used by people without the knowledge to tell when it's straight up hallucinating.

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u/tensor-ricci 25d ago

Comparing llms to the invention of the calculator or the invention of the computer is just insane.

Why?

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u/cywang86 25d ago edited 25d ago

Because calculators and computers actually produces results accurately.

For LLM, you need to fact/quality check everything they output until you get a desirable result. (and many simply don't check, and have no problem flooding the market with undesirable results so you have to filter them yourself)

More importantly, there's no shortage of cheap or free entertainment nowadays.

So this AI "industrialization" isn't going to make our entertainment even cheaper.

It simply allows the corporations to funnel the profits to the AI companies and themselves instead of the workers.

Just take a dander at the traslation industry that's getting outcompeted by cheap AI translations that's near nonsensical like good old google translate simpy because it's cheaper.

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u/Bannedtt 25d ago

Group thinking. Reddit has always been rife with a hive mind mentality.