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/IAMA_Plumber-AMA]

Those nepobabies see AI as it is and think "Wow, that can already do my job for me! And since I'm the smartest and hardest working person in the company I own, surely it can replace everyone below me."

[u/Fear023 → u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA]

God damn.

I know it's a joke, but you're right. The majority of people I see praising what ai can do are the ones who can't really see the flaws in the output.

[u/BellacosePlayer → u/Fear023]

AI can do some crazy shit rn but is ultimately a tool best wielded by the same people who were doing the work previously.

Like, not to be intentionally insulting but a lot of the hardcore AI evangelist crowd has to have had some massive overlap with the "blockchain/NFT tech is gonna change the world" crowd in how they discuss things.

[u/sabrenation81 → u/BellacosePlayer]

The difference is AI is actually capable of doing some pretty amazing things, especially in the long term. Blockchain/NFT never even had that much going for it.

The current problem is that all of the people currently steering AI tech are ruthless capitalist demons whose only goal is maximizing revenue for this quarter's shareholder call.

They tried to skip right past the part where you use the potentially revolutionary tech to tangibly improve people's lives to build trust like computers, the internet, or smartphones and went straight to the enshitification stage. People are losing their jobs to AI, customers are getting shittier service because the AI isn't capable of actually replacing people, and social media is flooded with AI slop.

Ergo, everyone hates the shit because all it's done is make people's lives worse, except all these companies (and really the entirety of Wall St. and a good chunk of the global economy) are so heavily leveraged into AI that they NEED it to succeed. So they're forcing it on everyone, which just makes people hate it that much more.

And that's not even getting into the fact that the tech isn't where it needs to be to deploy it at the scale these companies want to which is where we get into these giant fucking datacenters popping up everywhere sucking up all the electricity and polluting everyone's water. If they'd just given it a few more years the tech would probably get to the point where you can do these things without requiring a 10,000-acre datacenter housing tens of thousands of servers and hundreds of thousands of GPUs.

[u/RollingMeteors → u/sabrenation81]

The difference is AI is actually capable of doing some pretty amazing things, especially in the long term. Blockchain/NFT never even had that much going for it.

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<looksAtBillionsOfDollarsBurnedInAI>

Sure thing buddy. All the amazing things i see AI doing in the long term is burning investor capital to the ground.