Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution
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#2Re: Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution
#3They are both right, the revolution needs to be oriented for ordinary people and college kids to benefit from it or else their attitude is wholly justified. There's basically no reason for them to cheer on a future of trillion dollar corporations using AI services to battle for knowledge work market share.
Re: Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution
#4They are both right, the revolution needs to be oriented for ordinary people and college kids to benefit from it or else their attitude is wholly justified. There's basically no reason for them to cheer on a future of trillion dollar corporations using AI services to battle for knowledge work market share.
was the industrial revolution oriented for ordinary people at the time it occurred? were a lot of workers buying flying shuttles in the 1700s?
Re: Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution
#5They are both right, the revolution needs to be oriented for ordinary people and college kids to benefit from it or else their attitude is wholly justified. There's basically no reason for them to cheer on a future of trillion dollar corporations using AI services to battle for knowledge work market share.
was the industrial revolution oriented for ordinary people at the time it occurred? were a lot of workers buying flying shuttles in the 1700s?
No, that's why unions exist.
Re: Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution
#6If you want people to like AI, show them a future that doesn't leave them in abject poverty.
Re: Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution
#7They are both right, the revolution needs to be oriented for ordinary people and college kids to benefit from it or else their attitude is wholly justified. There's basically no reason for them to cheer on a future of trillion dollar corporations using AI services to battle for knowledge work market share.
was the industrial revolution oriented for ordinary people at the time it occurred? were a lot of workers buying flying shuttles in the 1700s?
I'm confused - you're suggesting that past suffering justifies present suffering?
Re: Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
was the industrial revolution oriented for ordinary people at the time it occurred? were a lot of workers buying flying shuttles in the 1700s?
I'm confused - you're suggesting that past suffering justifies present suffering?
He's pointing out that labor has always opposed labor saving technology, despite that being the basis of our modern quality of life.
Re: Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution
#9If you want people to like AI, show them a future that doesn't leave them in abject poverty.
That's quite an unsubstantiated leap. The world has gone through plenty of digital transformations and the number of people in poverty has only _shrank_.
Re: Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution
#10Related:
The More Young People Use AI, the More They Hate It
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47963163
Study found that young adults have grown less hopeful and more angry about AI