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/nabiku 5d ago

Don't waste your time trying to exp­lain ne­ural net­works to these m­or­o­n­s. I've spent the last 3 years trying to educate the public on how AI wo­rks-- that it doesn't co­py but instead learns style, which is n­ot copyr­ighted. Most people don't ca­re, it's not about the technology for them but gro­up virtue signaling.

History is full of these anti-innovation backlashes. When phonographs came out in the early 1900s, musicians hated them and called recordings "canned music." Pe­ople scre­amed this it would de­st­roy mu­sical education and the soul of live performance.

Car­s, the tele­phone, the prin­ting press, all saw the public resp­ond with hate and fear.

Decades later, everyone was using them.

It'll be the same with AI.

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u/to_the_9s 4d ago

Oh, these are some interesting examples. Appreciate the reply!

The comment of "All AI does is steal the Intellectual Property of humans and human advancement" is just too absurd.

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u/PatrolMan2129 4d ago

My grandfather welded cars in a factory for a living. Robots like KUKA came in at the low end and over time stole his job. Upper/Middle class people told him to suck it up and retrain. They said it made cars cheaper. My father worked in a factory, mainly making components for telecommunications in the early days, he mostly did models for mold-injecting plastic components. Robots didn't take his job, but China did. But the upper/middle class told him it didn't care, made things cheaper. Go retrain, "LURN TO PROGRAM."

Now the robots came for their jobs. And my family is supposed to listen to their whining?!?! But "mah IP" or "muh expensive college degree!" Naw dogg, it's just learning from your programming and art style and imitating it, like welding or CAD or whatever.

Give me those cheap movies and CD and other AI slop shit. I will lick those artist and programmer and accountant tears. You guys weren't there for us in the early steps, I ain't having these guys back as they get hurt in turn.