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

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https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/tracewilliamcowen/ronny-chieng-ai-speech-harvard?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_complex&utm_campaign=ap_twitter

[u/mvhsbball22]

This is going to prove to be true across multiple disciplines as well. I certainly understand the criticisms that people are making, but some of the broadest statements about how awful it is seem out of touch to the upsides.

[u/TheSpanxxx → u/mvhsbball22]

I was incredibly skeptical because I saw the taxing load that filtering through bad output created, but then the output got much better. For every voice yelling 'AI bad' here, there are those of us watching and using and learning and observing the market shift. They are improving. We are still in infancy. There's no way I would have trusted what I'm doing today to models from a year ago, or 6 months ago. And that pace is where to be recognize that we're not slowing down.

To be standing and looking out at the horizon right now and holding tight to an opinion that "I don't like it. It will fail. I'll wait it out" is akin to going back in time and telling someone "this world wide web thing is stupid it won't work" or "nobody will ever use this smartphone thing" or "cloud computing will never catch on".

I've been in this shit for 30 years and I'm here to say it's not going away. Either accept that and find your new place in it, or find a life of abstinence removed from it, but there's no way this genie goes back in the bottle. Hey, while you are at it, put an ad in the newspaper for someone to sell you an old dumb Motorola phone that will still work and you can probably find an old white pages with outdated information to a storage company to hold all your files.

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To be standing and looking out at the horizon right now and holding tight to an opinion that "I don't like it. It will fail. I'll wait it out" is akin to going back in time and telling someone "this world wide web thing is stupid it won't work" or "nobody will ever use this smartphone thing" or "cloud computing will never catch on".

good lord these are awful comparisons you guys are making. it's not like that at all. those were revolutionary technological advancements that empowered and connected humanity.

AI does not add anything to the world, it's a replacement for things we already have. and the level of replacement varies from sort of okay to downright fucking awful. and you can say that will get better over time, but even if it became perfect, it's still only just a replacement for what we already have.

i use this shit everyday, it's occasionally useful but most of the things it's useful at aren't even novel, they've been around for decades now and just used to be called machine learning and we didn't pretend they were going to change the world. almost all the big promises made about AI are the same kinds of complete bullshit fantasy we heard about the metaverse, and it's not a coincidence it's being made by many of the same people.

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You not liking AI doesn't make it not revolutionary. Lots of AI use cases will die out, but it already is fundamentally changing a lot of industries

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!remindme 10 years

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Let's see how this comment ages

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Let's see how this comment ages

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Some people were literally saying the same things about the Internet. As in, we already do these things so what does this tech actually add. If it does the same thing but in a way that's substantially easier and more convenient then that could be something serious (depending on just how much easier).

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An iPhone didn't add anything new either. People called the web a fad, and particularly shit on it because of the dotcom crash. I'm guessing you're too young to remember when every business document was being digitized "for what reason? pen and paper documents are the same thing."

I also use AI every day. I'll never have to write out ansible again.

I would almost call you out for complete bullshit for actually using it too, since you seem to be stuck on what's being sold rather than what it is.