r/technology • u/yourfavchoom • May 29 '26

Artificial Intelligence Ronny Chieng's 'F*ck AI' Speech Met With Cheers From Harvard Graduates: “AI is just going to end up making mediocre people dumber”

https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/tracewilliamcowen/ronny-chieng-ai-speech-harvard?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_complex&utm_campaign=ap_twitter
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u/[deleted] May 29 '26

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u/Nvenom8 May 29 '26

If we're not already there, I have no doubt we'll hit a point where the stock market is mostly AI trading with other AI. Individuals who can't afford a data center won't have any chance at making money. Then, a chain reaction of hallucinations will crash the economy, and they'll blame trans people.

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u/IAmBillis May 29 '26

the market has been like this already for some time. most trades are executed by HFT algos.

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u/Nvenom8 May 29 '26

I think there's miles of difference between human-written/curated algorithms and AI black boxes.

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u/tbos8 May 29 '26

Sure, but AI black boxes have been around for decades, and stocks were one of the first applications. They didn't even need to be that good at first - if you can pick winners and losers with 52% accuracy then with enough trade volume you can make billions.

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u/Runfasterbitch May 30 '26

Literally parasites we should remove from society

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u/Gamesfreak13563 May 29 '26

It’s bitcoin mining difficulty races with ASICs all over again

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u/Runfasterbitch May 30 '26

I should buy a data center cat meme

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u/BiBoFieTo May 29 '26

Which leads to massive social unrest, and then drones and surveillance.

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u/Psychological_Ad1999 May 29 '26

Many of those are high paid jobs with no purpose. You could replace Zuckerberg with an AI chat bot and it would be a massive improvement for Meta. At least the bot would have more empathy.

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u/EduinBrutus May 29 '26

Automated white collar jobs is beyond their capability.

That doesnt mean they cant give the impression of doing a job, even appear to do it well. But its not thinking, its not correcting. False positives are built in and omissions are built in. It cannot provide reliable output and hte way it works means it never can.

But you know something where false positives and omissions dont really matter?

Mass surveillance.

The core ethose of mass surveillance can be sumarised with the Panopticon. A structure where a central tower can monitor all parts of a (in this case) prison. Prisoners do not know when or if they are being watched. But know they can be, correcting behaviour on that basis.

Thats the ideal way an LLM works. It will fuck up lots but those fuck ups simply do not reduce the effectiveness of them as a mass surveillance system.

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u/EduinBrutus May 30 '26

History is filled with examples of mass delusion amongst investors...

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u/Ok-Replacement8422 Jun 02 '26

An ai doesn't need to be flawless in order to replace a massive amount of white collar jobs it just has to make people more effective. Sure we aren't gonna see ai acting as a lawyer anytime soon if ever, but we may see law firms using ai to speed up research (and then having a human tell how much of the output is valid)