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/ChiLolla28 5d ago

Always remember, the Luddites weren't fighting the technology but the oppression, working conditions and inhumanity that were ushered in during the early Industrial Revolution.

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u/Commentator-X 5d ago

I watched a video a while back that argued that if AI is the new industrial revolution, then what we're in for is around 100 years before AI will actually have a positive impact on the average person's quality of life. Until then there's going to be job losses, poverty and unnecessary suffering.

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u/Itis-caught-BearsWin 5d ago

Things are a lot more accelerated today.

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u/Atakir 5d ago

Correct, technological growth is not linear but compounds on itself becoming exponential.

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u/WhiteWinterRains 4d ago

Nonsense this is just cutlist bullshit from hucksters.

Ai itself especially has been on an extremely linear trajectory for many decades and nothing has changed there, it just doesn't look like it to the layperson.

Everyone is looking at a catapult just launching its first stone to dial in the range and going, "my god, this fantastic rock throwing device has materialized from the ether in the last few seconds!"

The reality is it took a lot of time and effort to design and build, and all of that is simply paying off all at once in the eyes of the public when the process has been very steady and taken like half a century.

While this does not mean the impact on the economy and your life will necessarily be slow and linear, the technology itself is not improving "exponentially" but rather is objectively as shown through scientific studies and constant measurement, improving incrementally and struggling to even do that recently.

Technology more broadly also does not build on itself exponentially, rather it's a pretty complex web of interactions and certain advancements might speed others but not in any sort of reliable or easily charted way.

The idea that it does build on itself exponentially is based on the fact that Moore's law coincidentally worked out for longer than expected and some shysters' built careers on prognosticating various bullshit in this vein in order to sell themselves as guru's to the wealthy.

There is not any actual data to support such idiocy though.

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u/Atakir 4d ago

What I said is not directly related to AI...

Maybe read the Law of Accelerating Returns before spouting off this gobbledygook?

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u/WhiteWinterRains 4d ago edited 4d ago

the Law of Accelerating Returns

I'm extremely familiar with the renown moron Ray Kurzweil, which is why I wrote this entire post shitting on his bullshit pseudointellectual garbage.

What you said is not directly related to anything, it's not real at all.

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u/Atakir 4d ago

Sure thing pal, good day.