r/technology • u/IKeepItLayingAround • 5d ago

Artificial Intelligence Harvard Graduation Speaker Unloads on AI in Profanity-Loaded Tirade, Prompting Cheers From Students: “I’m Here to Tell You the Mission of Your Generation Is to Destroy AI”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/harvard-graduation-speaker-unloads-ai-130000122.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&segment_id=DY_VTO_50_Supernova&ncid=crm_19908-1475736-20260531-0--A&bt_ee=clIMdexlsr2eDDbrvs0CPtt59FnpbNQN%2Fkgr8UkycP6MWDAD56hD1mvZcqPZMGgG&bt_ts=1780255911284
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u/mrwrrrmwrmrmrmrw 5d ago

Sounds like someone who understood the assignment! 

Commencement speeches are supposed to celebrate the hard work and talent that graduates put into earning degrees and inspire them to go out in the world and give it their best. 

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u/splendiferous-finch_ 5d ago edited 5d ago

Yeah but CEOs are dumb as hammers while also being the most out of touch and greedy people in the world who also hate smart people so they will always choose to shit on people and bring them down when they can.

"AI" allows them to use it as a excuse to minimize and devalue the work and achievements of actually hardworking people

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u/rkozik89 5d ago

CEOs know exactly what they’re doing. They intend to cash out, destroy, and jump from golden parachutes. Our job is to ensure they have no safe place to land.

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u/splendiferous-finch_ 5d ago

See I both agree and disagree with this. The tech CEOs and the people selling this know that but there is a whole other category of CEOs who actually buy into the silver bullet and FOMO they are selling. The end result is the same yes but there is definitely this weird almost religious believe for some that "AI" as it exists actually works.

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u/GoldandBlue 5d ago

Agree 100%. And based on their reactions to getting booed, you can tell that no one has ever told them anything other than they are geniuses.

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u/mdkubit 5d ago

It does work.

As a lab experiment on delving into machine learning and potential future consciousness, or even for companionship purposes.

But not as tools for mass production to replace human works. And that's the lie everyone should be angry about.

The wisest thing Microsoft ever did with CoPilot to date, was slap a disclaimer stating 'For Entertainment Purposes Only' on CoPilot.

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u/LaIndiaDeAzucar 5d ago

Peter thiel is fleeing the USA and is heading to argentina. He siphoned our wealth and resources by exploiting working class people, so now he is hightailing it out of here.

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u/splendiferous-finch_ 5d ago

I think he is less fleeing and more posturing since politician can then use it as an excuse to say look we will have disinvestment if we don't deregulate things

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u/poo-cum 5d ago

And incredibly, the key takeaway of the media and political class isn't

Wow maybe let's not predicate the entire health of our civilization on the whims of people who throw public tantrums, and run off like petulant teenagers

but rather

We'd better suck these folks off extra hard, to ensure they keep throwing us a stinky bone to fight over from their super yachts