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Cabel Sasser
@cabel.panic.com

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️
@douglasurner.bsky.social

🧵Once again we are failing to ask the important questions. Have no doubt that it is *possible* to build AI models that are much better than the current LLM slop. We should be in awe & terrified by the progress in AI – it's out of control. I'm not sure that control is even being attempted. 1/4

Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️
@douglasurner.bsky.social

We should be asking: Do we want AI? Who will it benefit? Who might it hurt? What will it mean to be human if machines can "think?" Who defines the machine's ethics? Who is responsible for the machines errors or crimes? Will we be able to control it? Who will be controlling it? Do we trust them? 2/4

Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️
@douglasurner.bsky.social

We humans have a terrible track record for considering problems before we plunge in. This may be our last chance to get that right, and we're running out of time. Just because we can, doesn't mean we should – I don't think it's ever been more urgent to understand that. 4/4

bxbx4.bsky.social
@bxbx4.bsky.social

We won’t know if the calculator is right or wrong if we don’t know how to double-check it. And if our calculator battery dies, we’re left stranded. So it is with AI, you can't cognitively offload if you never onloaded in the first place. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psyc...

psychologytoday.comYour Brain on AI: Cognitive Offloading, Debt, and AtrophyStudents are increasingly using AI to do their classwork, and school systems are contracting with companies to integrate AI into curricula. But at what price?
MrakVkarM
@mrakvkarm.bsky.social

The next industrial revolution...lol. She means the one that heralded massive pollution to our only planet? That one? Will those who are supposed to possess a greater amount of intelligence than the average person NEVER LEARN FROM HISTORY... and known contemporaneous issues?

hypertazdad.bsky.social
@hypertazdad.bsky.social

AI has scraped the internet and stole the literature, science, software, concepts and creativity of humans for the benefit of billion dollar corporations to sell back to us while stealing jobs. Data centers are needed to store all that info while consuming physical resourses we need to survive.

BeanieCLE1
@jennicle1.bsky.social

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Pedantic Pest@pedanticpest.bsky.social

She's not a college administrator - tho administrators did invite her to speak - she's works a big Florida development company as the VP of "Strategic Alliances" whatever that is

tavistockdevelopment.comGloria Caulfield - Tavistock Development CompanyAs Vice President of Strategic Alliances for Tavistock Development Company, Gloria Caulfield oversees the health and medical partnerships as well as business
Willow Tree
@review1.bsky.social

Was there not a song about a guy going through the newly invented drive thru to place an order for a hamburger? Due to the speaker the person taking the order kept repeating it wrong. No one should have to keep telling AI “Customer Service please” over and over.Time to take your Business elsewhere!

Willow Tree
@review1.bsky.social

If AI is continued to push people aside, there will be no need for people. AI should only be used in Science to help find cures for diseases, to improve construction and design to provide safer commercial/residential by improving Resistance of Weather Conditions. Improving the need of Utilities.

Willow Tree
@review1.bsky.social

AI is a nuisances when used to replace people. The Virtual Assistant, After 20 minutes of a lost conversation, AI will finally say I will need to send you to someone that can assist. By then you as a Consumer becomes frustrated. People need that human touch of finesse a machine will never provide

Joe Tambien
@joetambien.bsky.social

Most people die from lack of access to freshwater and electricity - exactly the things that AI is consuming. We need to find a cure for resource and wealth distribution.

The Musician's Path
@themusicianspath.bsky.social

Somewhat off-topic question, but what's the music playing in the background? I hear it used on social-media posts a lot, but as you can imagine it's not easy to search for "sad calliope music" or whatever and get meaningful results.

Kristina Sunshine
@discoqueen.bsky.social

I'll bet you a shiny quarter the reason she also couldn't recover or even seem to think on the fly is largely because she has been leaning heavy on bots to do her writing (and thinking) for her so long, she has lost the ability.

Lucy
@irl-lucye.bsky.social

I guess relying on AI to write for you can lead to such mistakes as thinking 'struck a chord' is the same as 'struck a nerve'.

joocifer
@joocifer.bsky.social

It has potential to do all those bad things, and it also has the potential to open up incredible, great things for humanity in medical care, human public transit, work, all types of research It's main function isn't going to be 'making bad videos' ;) but more importantly there is no going back.

Debits & Credits
@debitsncredits.bsky.social

IDK if you knowingly added luddites here as a pejorative or if you know their actual history BUT I'm gonna word vomit anyways; Luddites were a labor movement that weren't inherently anti-machine. They understood what would happened to skilled labor and knew that it was a huge boon to capitalists.

Cyn
@cottagedweller.bsky.social

We can't even watch a silly video now without people freaking out and analyzing whether it is or isn't AI. As if we needed more to be paranoid about. Real humans hate it. Investors would be wise to pay attention.

Believelander Says Trans Rights
@says-rights.northsky.social

I'm about as far from an AI fan as you're going to find, but there's numerous ways generative AI is being used by scientists (correctly) to train AI models to accelerate useful research by iterating through lots of possibilities to narrow them down for humans to look at

Good Knight Kiss
@goodknightkiss.bsky.social

AI doesn't ruin art, it democraticizes it. AI doesn't make you unemployed, it does the work for you. And there's countless aspects in life that ruin the environment more than AI, so stop the hypocrisy. The one thing you people refuse to complain about: Capitalism. That's what's the problem.

pope "pope crunch" crunch
@popecrunch.blacksky.app

The only thing you are making when you prompt an AI is mistakes. The output isn't art, it's the result of some rich sociopaths shovelling everyone else's art into a blender and offering you a slice off the congealed log. You are not an artist, you are a stooge, and you can stop whenever you want.

Raspy
@theraspandonly.bsky.social

1: You ain't making shit, you numpty. lmao 2: Studios passing on artists in favor of building their own AI slop factory absolutely hurts artists. The hundreds of billions of dollars being poured into AI are for that group, not the "What if Doctor Who met Marilyn Monroe in Star Wars?!" group.

Plasma
@heliumfactory.bsky.social

This is true for Global/Worldwide LLMs. Not the Local/Small Enterprise AI that can be very useful for demanding repetitive tasks and without the high environmental impact, data privacy & sovereignty risks, censorship, Social & mental health harms or Economic concentration. Not all AI is bad.

Jacob M
@jacobmc.bsky.social

Yeah so far "Filthy rich people will get even richer" isn't a winning message. Gaurantee more income, or less work, more free time...maybe we'd all be a bit more intrigued.

therexbellator.bsky.social
@therexbellator.bsky.social

I'm not a tech bro but you "antis" are quite possibly the dumbest mfs outside of MAGA. Until 2 years ago you never cared a lick about data infrastructure despite millions of server racks, cloud centers, running 24/7 globally for decades. You think those things ran on pixie dust and unicorn dreams?

therexbellator.bsky.social
@therexbellator.bsky.social

I get it but it's a growth industry. It's like expressing shock that Uber & Lyft led to more car traffic. Not to be flippant but the fact is: we're in an AI arms race with China & other countries and we're in a highly deregulatory economy thanks to our political climate. Y'all need to be patient.

therexbellator.bsky.social
@therexbellator.bsky.social

"Stolen data" is another canard. Most training data is licensed. Even the ChatGPT case was found to be Fair Use by a US court. And if you're on social media, like reddit, you're helping feed training data when you agree to the TOS. How can it be "stolen" if you agree to give it away?

therexbellator.bsky.social
@therexbellator.bsky.social

And "ruining art" is a laughable & subjective claim. Suddenly you care about "art" but turned a blind eye to years of social media brainrot, shitposts, memes, tiktoks, and other low-effort content. Art survived just fine. The "Anti" position is a performative platform based on hysteria & hyperbole.

85 right shoes
@85rightshoes.bsky.social

Data cannot be created or stolen, only counted and presented. #duh AI can not create art, brainchild. Art is disruptive and sparks surprise. AI is resolutely incapable of that. Not anywhere. Not once. Not ever. #growup

Talos
@taloskegmore.bsky.social

luddites werent even opposed to technology just the use of technology to replace skilled workers. which actually makes the comparison that much more apt

PJ Westin
@pjwestin.bsky.social

Honestly, I'm not even sure that's true. They've certainly bet the global economy on that premise, but so far the massive productivity gains and market for slop art are either hypothetical or incredibly small.

Mirel 🇨🇦
@miralelian.bsky.social

Under normal circumstances, I'd say the 'handful' making money would be the ones making and selling the shovels and pans - as it has always been. I just don't know who that is in this instance. I'd say the chip manufacturers... but are they being payed in anything other than funny money?

horizonframe.bsky.social
@horizonframe.bsky.social

There are definitely people now who are making money. Jensen Huang's net worth has grown from $2B in 2016 to $185B today. Dario Amodei is now worth $7B. The question is whether these numbers hold. I don't think they will, but for now lots of people see these figures and want to be part of that.

Andreas Birkigt🦋
@andreasbirkigt.bsky.social

And then? Can they eat their wealth? Can they drink it? And what will become of their wealth if nobody buys their products because all the laid-off people can’t afford them anymore? As long as AI is subject to corporate greed nothing good will come of it.

Hat
@drestlemare.neocities.org

You'll be delighted to know that isn't AI! Their other trick they always pull is calling already-useful tech AI so you're forced to think you have to accept some part of it. It's theft all the way down to its own credited achievements.

Hat
@drestlemare.neocities.org

Yep, satellite positioning and the like has been done that way long before these bots were even a curiosity. Can't promise that google won't be shoving gemini where it doesn't belong sooner than later, but the base technology has nothing to do with LLMs

Mappa Dan
@mappadan.bsky.social

Yes, but who is right? Is reading the room what matters? I expect a lot of folks didn't much like the first industrial revolution, but it was still a good idea to be prepared for it. ps I suspect AI is too deeply flawed to produce the next such revolution. But that isn't really the point.

Mappa Dan
@mappadan.bsky.social

That's too broad a comment for my taste. I've found uses where it is valuable (eg differentiating archaic Greek and medieval French dialects). And many where it isn't (eg in my experience it sucks at geography). I just see it as yet another technology with strengths and weaknesses.

Mappa Dan
@mappadan.bsky.social

Or put another way, it dosn't make me fearful about the future. But fear clearly motivates a lot of the responses to it. For me, that overrates its capabilities. It's a tool. People will use it for some purposes. But human brains are way better for others.

JCH
@crossland68.bsky.social

A line from a mystery novel I read a long time ago. “They’re in their own little world, but they think it’s the whole world.” The character was talking about a law firm, but it works for practically any group dynamic.

Great Lakes Scorecards
@mantsch.bsky.social

Well, if she’s going to explain how it’s the next Industrial Revolution insofar as it’s being foisted on us by the Capitalist class, will rob us of our leisure time, and speed up ecological destruction and so we must all fight it; then sure, continue.

Sadnehs
@sadnehs.bsky.social

Completed my degree in CS Dec. 2019, & 2 years of job hopping got a position as a web developer. 3 years later I was laid off, and now 8 months after that I still cannot get a job. The company pushed AI & 1 year later gutted their developers & the CEO resigned. It's a grift that ended my career.

- RESISTANCE -
@rivermanred.bsky.social

Commiserations. My friend's son is 50, he's been a salesman for a building company, got told position was redundant due to AI. They've kept him on as a delivery driver. His partner lost her bookkeeping position a year ago, hasn't found another since. He said it's happening to all their friends too.

Brian Smith
@theactualbrian.bsky.social

It's not a tool. It's a marketing scam. It's not intelligent. It can't interpret anything. It only creates stuff that's statistically likely to go together. It's producing literal garbage. If you actually check it, you could have just done it correctly the first time.

Brian Smith
@theactualbrian.bsky.social

The language style has been shown to lull people into just skimming and assuming they're reading something that's not garbage. Tech companies NEED it to be the next big thing because they've bet so much on it, but it's crap and all they really do is gaslight you into thinking it's necessary.

kcosborn.bsky.social
@kcosborn.bsky.social

Workers and students recognize who is going to be replaced by AI. Companies are attempting to replace workers with AI. So far, it is not saving money. It is either breaking even or costing more. Replacing executives with AI would work and cost less. But executives don't want that for some reason.

nccassandra.bsky.social
@nccassandra.bsky.social

How did she get chosen as speaker? Since we've lost DEI, mediocrity has risen exponentially at high levels of leadership and management. Must be some white people more prepared than the ones on display in the last 15 months.

Victor Roa
@crithon.bsky.social

For a lot of people, THEY GET IT! It's not AI, it's just the word prediction on an iphone just going off, and it takes more work to clean up the mess it made. People made jokes about Siri 13 years ago, but now it's just gone nuts!

clashist??
@clashist.bsky.social

Rally against AI and it’ll be the kick in the ass humanity needed to continue creating things ourselves. “Produced without use of AI”. If I’ll buy organic, I’d pay for humans to create human things. My human money can be used by other humans who need it for human purposes. Keep it fucking human.

EagleOwl
@eagleowlsheila.bsky.social

Met a young mum + 2-year-old on the train on Saturday whose husband and loads of others (coders and IT specialists) had lost their jobs to AI. It was a desperate situation and brought home the real-world impacts.

Douglas
@pearharp.bsky.social

Fuck AI! The rabid fascistic greed that compels it forward rapes our environment, enslaves our people, protects pedophilia wrecks our U.S. Constitution, and murders democracy. Fuck AI!

bharvey67.bsky.social
@bharvey67.bsky.social

I asked about AI at my job last week. One thing they did say is that it's not fully baked right now to pose a threat to anyone's jobs in the short term. It's the long term, my nieces and nephews, who I'm worried about.

showler.bsky.social
@showler.bsky.social

AI is an interesting academic study, but at this stage it has no business being involved in anyone's life in a consequential way. It's like having an entire freeway system being used by the first horseless carriage ever created.

Lady Firewind 🏴‍☠️
@ladyfirewind.com

They don't hate AI. I bet they use it constantly. What they hate us the climate being destroyed for AI. They hate that there may not be jobs for them, the Fear of the world changing too fast, and beyond society's capacity to control the course of this change. They hate feeling out of Control. Not AI

Katie Carper
@carperkatie.bsky.social

It was novel and yes it’s still a shortcut for some things, but it’s quickly become deeply cheesy, fake, and uncool. Plus incorrect in many instances. When we ask them about it they’re mostly like “ no thanks.”

Lady Firewind 🏴‍☠️
@ladyfirewind.com

Yeah, people who have trouble discerning when things are factual or not would really struggle to use AI. If you believe everything you read and feel like you learned something without really asking if what you read just made sense, then you will have a bad time with AI.

Newsy
@nussy.bsky.social

"They don't hate AI they just hate every negative effect of AI" Yeah they're justifying why they don't like something. That's how not liking things works. You find out all the reasons why it's bad, then conclude it is bad ...

OlympicTorch
@olympictorch.bsky.social

I’m sure they hate AI too. AI can replace human intelligence and creativity. It can replace the need for them. Imagine enjoying drawing since childhood. Suddenly the world has an instant art machine that’s always getting better. The social value of your art just went down. People hate that.

Chris Conaton
@conatonc.bsky.social

I have a middle schooler and they and all of their friends hate it. Meanwhile the school district has pushed teachers to use it more and more in the classroom and guess what? The kids hate the teachers that rely on AI the most.

Katie Carper
@carperkatie.bsky.social

I know! The kids I know under hs age are even more militantly against it. It’s amazing how fast everyone got so burned out. Like anything else, it will be a tool at best.

Christopher J Stevens
@metaphysiology.eurosky.social
Christopher J Stevens@metaphysiology.eurosky.social

Happened on a further two occasions since. With one, I had a live insight to Gen-Z feelings on it, as I'm included in a work chat group mainly composed of masters and phd students: universal reaction of eyeroll cringe & fatigue. So pls, intervene with older academics: "I asked ChatGPT to.." "STOP!"

Charles Moore
@wokeazzdeadhead.bsky.social

The only positive of AI it is it will lead leave a road map to any civilization that find us what actually happened to mankind and how we destroyed ourselves! Especially if we do it slower than a nuclear weapon!

Charles Moore
@wokeazzdeadhead.bsky.social

Listen to your favorite artist from Sinatra The Beatles to the Grateful Dead and Miles Davis then ask AI to write a song in that style. You will be sorely disappointed and understand how soulless ,untalented and unable to create in a human form with human soul and feeling that AI always will be!

Ducati5
@ducati5.bsky.social

The institution should be taken to task for inviting her to speak. I remember that someone at Monsanto spoke at my undergrad commencement. It was the 1970s and it did not go well...

Ducati5
@ducati5.bsky.social

It appears Gloria Caulfield, Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Tavistock Development Company, is tone deaf; how could she create alliances and partnerships while tone deaf?

helenopinion.bsky.social
@helenopinion.bsky.social

These people never really tell us what "good" things AI is going to do. The Internet might be a mixed blessings but it's easy to think of things it has made massively more convenient. But I still don't know what good things AI is going to do.

Scott Santens
@scottsantens.com

The audience is full of people who will not in any way benefit from AI, and will instead find it harder to find jobs, and the jobs they do find will pay less, or suck in other ways, and they will watch the rich get even richer. It's the system we must fix, and we all need to get to work fixing it.

actionnetwork.orgThe AI Pledge for HumanityI just signed the AI Pledge for Humanity and I want to tell you why. For fifty years, productivity has soared and wages haven't. Now AI is about to accelerate that pattern. The people building it say...
Tom Conley
@tomjconley.bsky.social

Interesting that many of them will have used AI in their education - some legitimately some illegitimately ... The secret is guiding AI to do the good things it can do and reigning in the psychopaths who currently run it. There's no going back.

LionHardt
@lionhardt.bsky.social

It's a cute idea and sounds like a pretty utopia, but somehow I suspect an Action Network petition isn't going to magically remove the greed and cartoonist evil of the people in control of AI. They're not going to distribute that wealth as UBI just because we asked nicely

Nat, but haunted
@nzorach.bsky.social

interesting-- how do you pitch this to the folks who think this technology must actively be rejected or destroyed rather than, I don't know, reasoned with? Lots of people including some pretty smart and reasonable ones in that boat

CourseCorrection
@cat-9.bsky.social

If people thought that for once people would get to decide WHAT a new technology would get to be used for and to whose benefit, people might be willing to have that discussion. I think we're all just a tad jaded.

Eos//G, the Ghost Maker
@dawnknightx.bsky.social

You make it a tool, not a fraud machine. Machine learning has been used to help artists and scientists before to rapidly speed up processes. An animator who teaches a machine on where to put an outline when a character is facing a certain way isn't lying when they say they animated something.

Eos//G, the Ghost Maker
@dawnknightx.bsky.social

A scientist who can run 1 million simulations extremely fast because of machine learning isn't lazily letting the machine create the experiments. Generative AI is, at best, advertised as a fraud machine. At worst, it's a job killer.

Lady Firewind 🏴‍☠️
@ladyfirewind.com

I uninstalled the robot for gaslighting me too many times. I spoke about very heavy topics, but it is narcissistic right now as designed. Most people who talk to robots do not kill themselves. The people who do have underlying issues.

Bearded Pip
@beardedpip.myatproto.social

Set aside the AI itself for a moment. Look at the people finding and running the businesses pushing the tech. Would trust any of them to hold a snack of yours while you ran to the bathroom? I’m opposed to them, more so than the AI.

Mabel Slattery
@slatteroo.bsky.social

The same as we educate people about the luddites: they weren’t against the weaving technology in itself - they broke the machines because of what rich people were doing with that technology, destroying not only their way of life but how society functioned just to benefit a few rich wankers.

Nat, but haunted
@nzorach.bsky.social

So, why can't this become a fight over the same thing? I feel like most people I talk to are either all in on this or they're like "the machines must be destroyed with fire," without thinking about how, you know, you can run a local open source LLM.

Mabel Slattery
@slatteroo.bsky.social

If we want to “reason with” AI we’d basically have to wipe the technology and start over without the theft, without the greed and with a very clear idea of what the restrictions would have to be and with a full plan to limit its environmental impact.

Cyn
@cottagedweller.bsky.social

You mean after our congress refused to make any attempt to put some guardrails around social media? Yeah, why would unfettered AI, which is what it is and will be, concern anyone. What's the worst that could happen? You get targeted and assassinated?

Historian Jen
@historianjenfl.bsky.social

The ship has already sailed. I can see the utility for certain tasks but it's not nearly as capable as people were told in the beginning. The only people who don't seem to understand this are the execs, who love that the AI flatters them, and are convinced it can eliminate pesky employees.

Lizzie 🏳️‍⚧️
@lizzellw.bsky.social

I use AI for work, I work in software development and there are very neat applications of this tech, and the computer nerd in me loves that, even though it’s not actually thought, this is the closest we’ve gotten to a computer thinking for itself. GenAI needs a LOT of reform to be viable

Lizzie 🏳️‍⚧️
@lizzellw.bsky.social

Chiefly among them, the issue of cooling, we have to develop better ways of cooling for this tech to be useful at scale (and maybe even get widespread quantum computers which I would like), but in all, this tech will never be viable for humans under capitalism

Aqua 🔞
@aquaraccoon.bsky.social

Pro Ai people are not listening to consumer feedback: Ai is soul-less, bad for education, bad for jobs and the environment, and we do not want it. Thats an observation, not an opinion or a misunderstanding. Even if the product is "good", you can thank Ai businesses for poisoning consumers opinion.

Artless Dodger
@thegreatduggo.bsky.social

Perhaps look at the psychopathic narcisists who are running it, who are doing everything they can to avoid safety controls and regulations - I wonder why? It could be made a lot safer - but still with big question marks - that's not going to happen now.

Oceanoxia
@oceanoxia.bsky.social

You seem to think the stuff currently marketed as "AI" is actually thinking and reasoning. It's not. Or do you think we can reason with tech CEOs? In either case, I think you're missing the mark.

Nat, but haunted
@nzorach.bsky.social

I think most tech CEOs need to be launched into the sun. I see some interesting possibilities for the technology, but not while it is all unregulated and owned by shitty oligarchs. I am arguing that it's not the fault of the machine learning algorithms and matrix multiplication, but of the owners.

Nat, but haunted
@nzorach.bsky.social

A lot of technology is rapidly accelerating the destruction of our species. I would argue that you'd get more traction arguing for a market based approach that taxes carbon appropriately than leading with "ban all AI even though we can't define what that ban would encompass," re: many folks here

Nat, but haunted
@nzorach.bsky.social

Ok. How do you draw the like around what should be banned? AI is just a sophisticated assemblage of a bunch of different things computers have been doing for years. Are all machine learning algorithms banned? Non-LLM chat bots, are they banned, too? Are statistical algorithms banned?

Monika FBPE
@monika-uk.bsky.social

Let me find you an example where AI, against explicit instructions of its owners, divulged ALL personal login details and passwords to the third party, when threatened with turning off. You really do not want AI anywhere your private information.

urnotkelly.bsky.social
@urnotkelly.bsky.social

When they tried to reason with it during drone war simulations it lied and cut off comms to be able to achieve killing people. It is not a human and it has been trained on the whole internet which is 75% horrible. Don’t count on a “good reasonable AI”. It’s not a real thing.

Nat, but haunted
@nzorach.bsky.social

The smart people who think that it's an impossibly slippery slope to do things like "ban software algorithms that have been in use in most software for decades"? Yes, I hope they're in the room with us

Sam
@roosterboostee.bsky.social

It’s not the tech that needs to be reasoned with, that wouldn’t be an issue. Plenty of reasonable people can and will find reasonable things to do with it. The issue is that it’s financed and deployed by people who have no interest in doing so responsibly. The harms massively outweigh the pros

Stacy Fakename
@grayjustgray.bsky.social

"how do you pitch just letting us do what we want if we *promise* wink wink wink wink nududge nuudge super sweaerzsie realsies not to make even *BETTER* assassin droids than we already have without AI, if they're too smart to fall for it again?"

Nat, but haunted
@nzorach.bsky.social

Yes. This tech is basically just a bunch of existing tech joined into one. No one saying "ban AI" has given a good answer of how much they would ban if given the power to ban, you know, the things. I think we need to separate the tech itself from the usage, and I'm not someone who says that often.

nonrev
@nonrev321.bsky.social

Its rightly being rejected because we have lived in a digital internet age now long enough to discover that not all technology is healthy for society, for human relations & not healthy for human development, especially in children. Its easy to project where this leads to: A society that can't think

birdie1958.bsky.social
@birdie1958.bsky.social

Techbro billionaires believe democracy doesn't work, they believe in autocracy. Combine that thought process with all the prisons being built, and one can expect that a large part of humanity is going to be locked up, beginning with their opposition.

Nat, but haunted
@nzorach.bsky.social

I don't think that's too unreasonable a suggestion. Just pointing out that similar arguments were made by math teachers when graphing calculators were invented. Math still exists, we just started training students to learn more with their graphing calculators.

Fabien Niñoles
@ninoles.bsky.social

So why not attacking the bad actors? It's like attacking house ownership because large PE firms are using it as investment funds. Now, yes, AI has many problems, but it is still a proxy into what we refuse to address: the impunity of oligarchs. Removing AI will not fix that.

TommyDeets
@tommyfoolery.bsky.social

Yet they're not smart enough to realize we are a capitalist society run by the richest and it's literally impossible to stop AI development at this point, let alone put it back in the box? Anyone who thinks help is going to come from the leaders that are currently in power is delusional.

Nonningham
@nonningham.bsky.social

Too late. AI has already been proven too effective. It doesn't matter what the detractors say. We have but once choice, and that is to do as humans always have: adapt. bsky.app/profile/nonn...

Nonningham@nonningham.bsky.social

271 vulnerabilities found and fixed in Firefox alone. Anthropic previously reported finding 0-day vulnerabilities in every browser and operating system they set Mythos on, in only a few weeks. If we do not produce these models our adversaries will. We can't put the genie back in the bottle.

20xdee6.bsky.social
@20xdee6.bsky.social

tech billionaires don't "reason" with people. they believe that if they don't "move fast and break things", they will lose out on their "opportunities", but in real life that just translates to doing things wrong faster than people can stop them

20xdee6.bsky.social
@20xdee6.bsky.social

the first mistake is thinking that they wanted to talk on "common ground" in the first place. they threw entire fortunes into making a thing custom tailored to lie to the public at large and even themselves. there has never been anything to "reason" with in the first place. it never existed.

Scarlett the Vengeful Sprigatito
@moonhowler.northsky.social

Because it drains peoples intellect and creativity while driving them to suicide and psychosis with each prompt as it rips off the creative works of human beings and mushes it all into a pulp so you can’t even tell who’s work was used in the process or where, you can’t regulate that.

Mhaan
@mlhaan.bsky.social

there exists no tool without a purpose. Thus slop engines are not a tool. They're also a service run on fascism and stolen material. Services that exist off theft tend to be shut down.

stonemom.bsky.social
@stonemom.bsky.social

My admittedly narrow view on AI is simple-it sucks. As a retired lawyer, I keep track of lawyers sanctioned by courts for using AI to write their briefs. AI makes up non-existent case law &/or misrepresents existing law. IOW, it sucks. Lawyers have been paying thousands in sanctions as a result. 😄

Sev Wildfang
@souls-foreclosed.com

idk most of the engineering students i talk to are writing their theses about something AI-related or working on projects about industrial uses for AI. they would not be booing this speech. for better or worse (imo: worse!) there is a lot of acceptance for LLM technologies in certain fields.

ireidani.bsky.social
@ireidani.bsky.social

Alot of research and technical work that would have been called "machine learning" or "advanced algorithms" has been rebranded as "AI" because it's considered a magic encantation by CEOs and politicians.It's often required to get funding.

Simeon K Rabbani
@slkrr9.bsky.social

Yep. I’m working on a machine learning tool for the city to forecast flooding. If I call it a ConvLSTM, only the computer science nerds know what that is. The city wants AI, so this tool is AI. 😉

burgen wrope
@lokimes.bsky.social

Disagree. A lot of boomers don't understand it outside of "it works for them". Building a movement that requires any (I mean any) understanding of how it works could backfire.

Dr. Laura (no, not THAT one)
@darthsnugglebunny.bsky.social

Abso-fucking-lutely. I work in tech. Most of the people I work with think AI is amazing and can't imagine why you wouldn't have it do everything for you. At worst people are lukewarm on it. I keep my anti-AI feelings quiet bc I would like to remain employed while still finding ways to not use it.

Cheryl McNeilly
@cherylmcneillyphd.bsky.social

great to see that these college students KNOW that we can't afford to participate in anything that is going to make us dumber and lazier on a related note, the speaker doesn't seem to be very cognitively nimble what a surprise

Jakob G.
@jakobgamertsfelder.bsky.social

I think Ai is only doing well on the stockmarket, because Ai controls the stockmarket. Or at least its makers do with their computing architecture. It could be worse. Ai could have escaped, and like a virus, is doing what a virus would do. Finding water and energy via playing the stockmarket

Support CAF
@yknot05.bsky.social

AI probably does all right when you have to calculate numbers fast. Seems to primarily be the equivalent of a 'hospital administrator' that has no concept of human + or - feelings & compassion, but is good at cutting 'extras' so you can run a project/corporation as inexpensively as possible.

God Emperor Doom
@plootube.bsky.social

I teach young people their age. I have two kids their age. Anyone who spends 10 minutes around this generational cohort knows they hate most things about AI but most “adults” want to AI-splain to them why they’re wrong instead of taking them seriously.

PorcupineGirl
@porcupinegirl.bsky.social

My students (college) are split - about 20% of them try to use AI on their essays when they're not supposed to (and it's clear why because they are NOT even good at that), while the other 80% grin approvingly at my anti-AI rants and sometimes come up to me after class to talk more about it.

captaintrips1978.bsky.social
@captaintrips1978.bsky.social

Any professor who uses AI in any capacity in their courses not only deserves to be fired, they also need to be forced to reimburse each and every individual student for that entire semester’s tuition. Out of their own pocket, not the university’s

Sam Neill Blomkamp
@ganef.bsky.social

I was gonna hypothesize those were all Humanities majors and apparently they are. At least they're closer to being able to receive a UBI than scientists tho. And there'll likely always be a market for provably human-produced content.

Dark
@jaayr.bsky.social

WTF is a Gloria Caulfield and what is it doing giving a commencement speech anyway? I would feel so disappointed in my university and my degree if this was what was dredged up to speak at my commencement.

Pat Host
@pathost.bsky.social

Amen. This is usually why most non elite schools default to chancellors and university presidents so you don't insult students by trotting out some salesperson or lobbyist.

happyez.bsky.social
@happyez.bsky.social

I'd have ripped off the mask: "since WE benefit from AI and YOU don't, sucks to be you. There won't be many jobs for you all. However, just make sure you think of VCs as your adopted dads & speak only well of them -> you will insulate yourself" Then REALLY act stunned when they call you a cunt

JD
@jd007ifonly.bsky.social

I agree with that but I understand the goal and benefits of automobiles and electricity. They benefit society enormously. What's the societal benefit of bitcoin?

₿ItcoinBuddha
@bitcoinbro.bsky.social

Rules without rulers, there are too many benefits to list, the main one is censorship resistance, society is hurtling toward your social credit score dictating how you’re “allowed” to function, Bitcoin sheds those reins. Choose freedom.

permiepurveyor.bsky.social
@permiepurveyor.bsky.social

One of the coolest benefits I see is that BTC soaks up excess value/wealth in the global system, much of which is trapped at the top. This value is then spread to anybody in the world that holds BTC. I know of no other asset, available to EVERYONE, that can move wealth from the top to the bottom.

sogwet they/them
@notbeck.bsky.social

surely at this point, a decade after bitcoin summarily failed to manifest a revolution in economics beyond a handful of people making bank off a greater fool scam, you acknowledge that web3 was not in fact "the next thing."

₿ItcoinBuddha
@bitcoinbro.bsky.social

Whoa, it's something humanity has never seen before and you're pronouncing it as failed? Haha I was around for the birth of the internet, there was a decade where people like you said it was a fad and no one would ever yada yada... Whatever sogwet, keep ignoring Bitcoin, please. :)

Sheryl/K/W
@theskwerty.bsky.social

Civil War buff here. I was reading an AI generated summary of Jenny Wade, who was the lone civilian killed during the battle of Gettysburg. The article said she was buried in Vicksburg. This is basic stuff! She's buried locally in Gettysburg & AI couldn't get that right?

Tae
@ceylon-tae.bsky.social

My generation played The Game where if you said those two words, everyone in the vicinity wanted to strangle you 😂 We have no right to criticize 6 7

Homie Koyomi
@homiekoyomi.bsky.social

Every generation has a funny number, man. 420. 69. 67. 1337. 80085. It's all the same thing. It's never a generational thing. It's always been a have and have nots thing.

Th0m35
@th0m35.bsky.social

I think we both know none of those are like 6 7. Consider the reaction. We see a 420 or a 69 and we say "nice", but its the sex and drug number! 6 7 in contrast is often a choir of repeated 6 7s which echoes. It is so such less subtle. And no one was yell 80085. Thats for calculators.

Homie Koyomi
@homiekoyomi.bsky.social

It's a number that's funny, you're being a boomer. Not becoming a boomer takes concerted effort. It is a funny joke, it harms no one, pretending it is somehow different from the exact same shit I was doing in high school doesn't actually make it so.

ask712.bsky.social
@ask712.bsky.social

Communications and Arts majors... 2 groups of people who are being replaced by AI at astonishing rates. She either didn't realize who her audience was or she's completely out of touch. Maybe both.

Ranamar
@ranamar.bsky.social

I assume that message was written before the speech was delivered. Also, as with the "wow; I struck a chord," I feel like she's constitutionally forbidden from publicly acknowledging failure. (at least, not as failure, anyway)

zunvect.bsky.social
@zunvect.bsky.social

They make their own reality. The attitude that's so prevalent in politics that if you insist something happened the way they say it did, then eventually people will believe the narrative.

Bullix
@bullix.bsky.social

Two things: when did UCF move to Scotland?! And Gloria Caulfield congratulating herself publicly for empowering the future with optimism and molding young minds is deeply cringey lol

shathebaker.bsky.social
@shathebaker.bsky.social

Gloria Caulfield is part of the creepy/entitled longevity movement and a planned community called Lake Nona in Florida that works with Deepok Chopra (who told Epstein to "bring your girls") and UCF medical programs. She really is inside a bubble, a dark and dirty one.

Gertie
@gertiegreen.bsky.social

“Let’s all celebrate the reason none of you will have jobs in five years..” seems like a weird inspiration for a commencement address, but at least it’s in keeping with this timeline…