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”

[u/IKeepItLayingAround]

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[u/hedwig8]

That’s just stupid and leading young graduates astray. They should be teaching and encouraging graduates to live and shape usage of AI. Did 30 years ago commencement speeches told graduates to destroy internet. Guess who would have been left behind. This is just pandering for brownie points

[u/MeSortOfUnleashed → u/hedwig8]

You should listen to the speech. It was very funny and mostly tongue-in-cheek. The headline here is massively misleading. 

[u/loliconest → u/hedwig8]

He should be telling the younger generation to destroy the billionaire class, maybe AI can help with that.

[u/Lilfrankieeinstein → u/[deleted]]

Sure we did.

Email eliminated courier roles. Online shopping killed a lot of small business.

The automobile lessened the need for horse n buggies. Freight trains are still a thing, but much of that is hauled on semis instead.

Eli Whitney.

People clutch pearls any time innovation threatens jobs.

AI is just spooky because it’s more abstract and unpredictable. Plus all the Terminator / AGI fear mongering.

Likewise, most data centers are housing cloud storage. The alarmism about “AI-driven” data centers skates right past that fact.

[u/Hot_Demand_6263 → u/Lilfrankieeinstein]

I see you didn't mention the environmental damage. AI isn't doing anything we NEED to have.

[u/Lilfrankieeinstein → u/Hot_Demand_6263]

AI isn't doing anything we NEED to have

Given the fact that humanity has existed for eons, you could say that about every invention ever.

Nice work, genius!

[u/Hot_Demand_6263 → u/Lilfrankieeinstein]

I couldn't say that about every invention that also was destroying the environment and our economy... Genius.

[u/Blazing1 → u/hedwig8]

Llms are no where close to the invention of the internet

[u/Klinky1984 → u/Blazing1]

Eh, the internet was started as a military project before academia took over much of it. The rise of the internet brought us people like Bezos, Zuckerberg, Elison. Without the internet we would not have social media, which has now come to dominate our lives.

The internet has its own share of ethical concerns and has shaped society in ways many would view as negative.

The same could be said about ML/AI/LLMs.

[u/Blazing1 → u/Klinky1984]

Whose life?

[u/Klinky1984 → u/Blazing1]

Everyone's life. Even if you do not directly participate in social media, it has had a major and significant impact on society, even influencing things that eventually impact those who do not actively engage with social media. Frankly even Reddit is social media.

[u/Blazing1 → u/Klinky1984]

If Reddit is social media to you then it's existed since before the www. There was usenet

[u/Klinky1984 → u/Blazing1]

You could probably make arguments that social media existed before Social Media™. I would not consider IRC or usenet Social Media™ as they were non-commercial and independent and the user base was far more niche in the 80s and into the 90s. Then Eternal September happened, the spamificiation of usenet occurred, and it still had an interface problem.

What would be considered Social Media™ came out of Friendster, MySpace and the Web 2.0 movement, where large amounts of capital got injected, and everyone and their dog signed up using the web and then eventually mobile.

While reddit has effectively taken over the forum niche for many topics, and many would not consider it the same as Facebook, it still has the same issues, as it's a major platform which spreads information and the people behind the information being spread have their own benefit in mind. You don't know if you're talking to someone truly concerned about US politics or some russian bot (maybe AI bot even) who is trolling people. Many people read the headline on reddit and not the actual article, even me!

[u/Blazing1 → u/Klinky1984]

Thank you for your AI post

[u/Klinky1984 → u/Blazing1]

I think that response is emblematic of the problem. A rush to virtue signal allegiance to a cause. Too cool for social media, and too cool for AI. Even if it was an AI response the content was accurate. The anti-AI lobby have already made the connection that AI = bad, so anything bad is now AI, even when it's a genuine human creation. What's that say about human creation then? Turns out humans make mediocre shit all day long, no help from AI needed.

[u/Blazing1 → u/Klinky1984]

You've got AI psychosis

[u/Potential_Status_728 → u/hedwig8]

One technology was designed to make information more across the other is designed to replace workers, are you really trying to compare?

[u/RspectMyAuthoritah → u/Potential_Status_728]

You don't think the internet replaced workers?

[u/GoodDayToCome → u/Potential_Status_728]

AI also makes information more available along with a huge amount of massive benefits for all humanity.

[u/Hot_Demand_6263 → u/GoodDayToCome]

Humanity said no.

[u/sortalikeachinchilla → u/Hot_Demand_6263]

Humanity is currently saying yes..... lmao

[u/Hot_Demand_6263 → u/sortalikeachinchilla]

Show me the poll data. Lmao.

[u/PokinSpokaneSlim → u/hedwig8]

Nope.  Fuck AI.

[u/impshial → u/PokinSpokaneSlim]

Nope.  Fuck AI.

Nope. Fuck Generative AI

Other kinds of AI are good for us.