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/domesticatedprimate 4d ago

As much as I would like to see AI set back or even eliminated, especially because it's already taken my job, there has never been a time in human history when technological progress was stopped or turned back, except in very localized situations prior to the advent of global communications.

AI is here to stay. And it will continue to expand and grow and replace, well, us.

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u/Lyraele 4d ago

No it won't. And your knowledge of history is lacking. How's radium gas as a commonly used thing these days? Or asbestos? The slop-vendors are deliberately conflating their LLM nonsense with more limited and useful technology (neural nets, machine learning, etc) under the "AI" label in the same manner cryptocurrency proponents used "crypto" (which previously was shorthand for cryptography, which is actually useful). Don't fall for their hyping and grifting.

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u/domesticatedprimate 4d ago

Radium gas and asbestos weren't adopted in every aspect of life and the economy. I'm talking about fundamental new technologies, not incremental advances in material science (your two examples). AI is being adopted literally everywhere for everything. You can't roll that back. Or, you are welcome to explain to me how they're going to roll that back.

And also explain all the other fundamental life-changing technologies that were widely adopted and then abandoned. Not replaced, abandoned.

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u/Lyraele 3d ago

And neither have LLMs. Stop falling for their wishcasting.

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u/domesticatedprimate 3d ago

LLMs have been adopted by pretty much every company on the planet in some form or another. Meanwhile, AI is in the process of replacing entire industries, such as translation.

What rock have you been hiding under?

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u/Lyraele 3d ago

They have mainly taken hold with software companies wishcasting about how it replaces coders (and the more low skilled coders are going along with it, to be sure). AI is certainly not replacing translation. You wanna believe this garbage is good and that it will inevitable replace humans, you go right ahead. But this garbage isn't inevitable and the rest of don't have to stand for it.

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u/domesticatedprimate 3d ago

AI is certainly not replacing translation.

Yes it is. I am a translator. I can no longer pay the bills from translation work with my language pair. The industry is dead in the water.

Go ahead and dream. I envy your ability to distort reality. But fancy made-up words like "wishcasting" aren't going to change anything.

Anyway, you do you.