AI has been the “next industrial revolution” since the 70’s and 80’s. We’ll have a few more RoboCop movies and then things will be as they always are after hype cycles
Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution
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Re: Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution
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No. It ruins art, ruins music, ruins communication and on and on. It's cancerous with respect to anything related to art or cultural value.
Why "ruins"? just because it's not made by a human? AI-made music is frankly pretty good, do you actually listen to it?
I agree, it's shockingly good these days; we can argue about morality etc, fine, but burying one's head in the sand and claiming it's bad puts you at odds with reality, which isn't a good place to be.
It's pretty silly that so many people take as an axiom that the human brain basically has a monopoly on certain patterns of electrical signals, and have semi-religious beliefs that this will always be the case.
Re: Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution
#133If you want people to like AI, show them a future that doesn't leave them in abject poverty.
Cost of goods and services drops by orders of magnitude at every point in the supply chain. That being said we already have relative superabundance and we're more miserable than ever, so it's not clear that more of it will cheer us up.
> Cost of goods and services drops by orders of magnitude at every point in the supply chain.
That sounds great, but how are LLMs supposed to achieve this? You can't just say "AI will make a utopia". You have to present a vision for how it will get us there.
I'm tired of hearing about how AI will solve all the worlds problems. I want to see actual progress towards achieving these goals. And for the most part that hasn't manifested. Most people would consider AI to have had a net negative impact on their lives.
Re: Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution
#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
No. It ruins art, ruins music, ruins communication and on and on. It's cancerous with respect to anything related to art or cultural value.
Why "ruins"? just because it's not made by a human? AI-made music is frankly pretty good, do you actually listen to it?
I have. It's overly polished, formulaic and dull. It's devoid of any of the qualities that make music interesting. There's nothing a human is trying to communicate. Perhaps it could be used as elevator or hold music.
Re: Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
No. It ruins art, ruins music, ruins communication and on and on. It's cancerous with respect to anything related to art or cultural value.
Why "ruins"? just because it's not made by a human? AI-made music is frankly pretty good, do you actually listen to it?
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Re: Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution
#136If you want people to like AI, show them a future that doesn't leave them in abject poverty.
> show them a future that doesn't leave them in abject poverty To be fair, this isn’t the commencement speaker’s job.
If this is sarcasm, it's amazing. If not, depressing.
I would 100% expect a commencement speaker to be hyping me up for what comes next.
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Why would they give you a UBI? They would have no reason to do that...
Many countries have a form of UBI, although it's not guaranteed as the meaning of UBI would in a sense, but look at France with their RSA as an example, if you have no incomes/low incomes, you are entitled to it.
Where will this ubi money come from when there is no one to tax and profits are going to tech firms based in America.
Re: Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution
#138If you want people to like AI, show them a future that doesn't leave them in abject poverty.
Cost of goods and services drops by orders of magnitude at every point in the supply chain. That being said we already have relative superabundance and we're more miserable than ever, so it's not clear that more of it will cheer us up.
This is the kind of commentary that is completely detached from reality: people want housing, people want food, people want gas.
It's not great that we can buy iphones (and AI is going to cause all electronics to be scarce, so much for abundance there)
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In writing code, yes. But has there been an actual positive impact in other fields?
Medicine? There was recently an article shared around here that an LLM diagnosed ER patients more accurately than doctors. Looking beyond LLMs image analysis to detect cancer and other diseases. Like in coding, AI can and should be a useful tool for the human who decides and is ultimately responsible.
If you read more than the headline it was not how doctors diagnose patients in an ER(small text only description of symptoms).
Re: Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution
#140> College of Arts and Humanities and Nicholson School of Communication and Media Somehow I have a feeling that the reaction would have been totally different if it would have been the EECS graduates. Fear and rejection in certain professions is real and maybe even understandable. I imagine 25 years ago someone telling music graduates “streaming is the future of music distribution” would have received the same reactio…
this is a classic of the genre "It's not enjoyable to make music anymore” - Suno AI CEO