I guess you have to go to the likes of Harvard to be spared bad AI takes by poor thinkers at commencement 🙄

Ronny Chieng Tells Harvard to ‘Destroy AI’ as Graduates Cheer
The comedian and The Daily Show host gave the keynote address for Class Day 2026.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI #LLMs #Harvard #AIBoosterism #academia #USEducation #USUniversities

One presenter shared a column chart that purported to show the "capability", and the AI-enabled gains therein, of experts vs. novices across several domains. The moment it went onscreen, I asked for units and sources. The question was ignored, even during the Q&A period, until I asked it again. At that point the response was

”This chart is conceptual reflecting our observed trends both in our industry and the nonprofit sector. It's meant to show the general pattern. Sorry, I should have been more clear on that.”

Oh, it was abundantly clear from the chart itself. I just wanted to make you say it out loud [is what I did not say]

#AIBoosterism #MakeItStop

It's day two, and it is becoming increasingly difficult for me to not post my snark in the conference public chat.

I have created a Teams chat with just my coworkers who are also attending so that I can post there instead.

Now I just need to not mix the two up
#AIBoosterism #MakeItStop

While the technology is impressive (imo) I thoroughly enjoy takedowns like this. So many bullshit texts that people come up with that say nothing of substance at all while obfuscating the gnarly issues with #genAI

#AIHype #AIBoosterism #AI

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flere-imsaho (@[email protected])

so this is complete bullshit; point-for-point translation to human language follows * “seminal moment in tech” – this has no meaning at all, * “genai is doing things today that most viewed as physically impossible over a year ago” – self-affirming bullshit with no backing, * “it will evolve at light speed” – more self-affirming bullshit, * “llms can work in >1200 dimensions; human being struggle with 3 dimensions” – a phrase with no meaning at all, * “genai is applying logic & reasoning, connecting abstract thougths in ways that its engineers did not predict and cannot fully explain” – no, it doesn't do that at all, * “microsoft / openai have potential for escape velocity” – a phrase with no meaning at all, * “vc investments pivoting rapidly from cloud & crypto to genai” – yes, and? * “at software user conferences
” – irrelevant, * “gpt-4-32k can understand / store a 50 page document” – no, it doesn't, * “potential for massive workforce productivity boom” – self-affirming bullshit with no backing (again) * “potential for mass-scale white collar job realignment 4-8 years out” – “we hope that we'll enact mass layoffs”, but again, with no backing at all.

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