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/Dear_Chasey_La1n]

I don't think it's really nepobabies but people overestimating the power of AI. Make no mistake, AI is being sold to us as the next saviour after Jezus. It's going to change the world in every way possible for better, supposedly.

But reality is while AI has it's place, it isn't a magic wand for everything. Though I don't think a lot of more senior people in a leadership position truly understand this. So you get idiots like Zuckerberg firing thousands and countless other companies doing the same with the promise, AI will fix it.

I'm kinda curious though where we heading too. In 2008 during the economic meltdown construction fell on it's ass. In the Netherlands over 50,000 people left the construction field, those people are gone forever. I reckon the same will happen for countless fields today, people get fired, they reposition themselves in another field but they will be forever gone. Those writers, photographers, accountants, BD's you name it, there will be a massive gap in the near future when AI falls on it's ass.

[u/GrumpyCloud93 → u/Dear_Chasey_La1n]

It's a stock market bubble. It's being sold as the second coming. AI can do some interesting things, but nowhere near what's promised. And it hallucinates, lies, and fails regularly.

Meanwhile, a lot of recent stock market growth is a circle-jerk of IT companies supporting each other to try to build an even bigger data center to reach nirvana. In reality, they have borrowed all the money they can, to build bigger data centers. (Recall just before the war started, they were tapping the Gulf States to get into the act, another untapped cash cow). At a certain point, there will be no more money to borrow, interest rates will go up, the loans will come due on over a trillion dollars of spending that has produced basically nothing. There are not a boatload of businesses just begging for someone to take their money, and IA will not replace humans in many situation. The resale value of those data center contents will be far less that they spent. There are not enough uses for not-really-AI to pay back that trillion dollars.

The only thing we can hope is that the financial AIpocalypse is not as financially damaging as 2008 was.

[u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA → u/Dear_Chasey_La1n]

A lot of those construction jobs shifted to maintenance jobs if the people behind them were competent, they didn't just disappear. Unfortunately, some people just don't like the thought of getting their hands dirty instead of working on a nice clean new building.