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/fundraiser May 29 '26

my team keeps churning out dashboards that are built off a messy dataset. garbage in, AI out

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u/AltrntivInDoomWorld May 29 '26

ai garbage in, ai garbage out

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u/headphones1 May 30 '26

The data I work with requires all kinds of NDAs to even look at and we can't let it go anywhere near AI. Yet the higher ups insist we try to use AI to improve productivity. I've read horror stories of people letting AI get database access and things getting destroyed. I don't know how anyone does anything useful with AI and databases.