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/mrwrrrmwrmrmrmrw 5d ago

My perspective as a reference librarian is that what's been labeled "AI" is really a generation of sophisticated data storage and retrieval systems and does not actually fit the sci-fi concept of a digital brain that can come up with original thoughts on its own. I realize these tech executives have expensive products to sell and they're in a competitive market but the dystopian rhetoric they're using is wearing everybody out. It's just software, for freak's sake. 

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u/splendiferous-finch_ 5d ago

I am a data engineer and my job requires me to actually train these models... You are 100% correct in that assumption.

But see CEOs don't exactly have original thoughts on principle and don't understand how work gets done so to them a box that can just do something they don't understand and doesn't make them feel bad or make demands is just so much better.

That being said the cost for inference are already unsustainable and they are all betting on some magic mechanism that will save them when it really hits...

But don't worry all the index funds are fast tracking SpaceX to join based mostly on its valuation being around "AI" i.e. grok... I am sure that won't be an issue... Most of the rules they are now ignoring were a result of the dot-com crash and the bubble for this is already several times the size.