Hey friends! I did a TEDx talk and it's now up on the TED Conferences YouTube. It's possibly the best and most important talk I've ever done.

I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! https://youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #ted

Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortland

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@shanselman we don’t want no stinking "AI" shit, why is this even in my timeline…
@mirabilos watch it...it's 90% anti
@shanselman @mirabilos I’m surprised that your “good” use-case for AI is generating conversations with figures like Maya Angelou and Nelson Mandela. First, don’t you think there’s a consent issue there? Dead people can’t agree to have their work used for training, or to the creation of a fake representation of themselves. Second, the whole use case is abhorrent. Pretending that you can create an accurate simulacrum of a person based on their public writing/speech devalues their humanity.
@ripple @shanselman @mirabilos that part stood out to me too. "chat with an AI Jesus" doesn't seem to me like an improvement over "chat with an actor playing Jesus" except maybe the AI obscures the play-acting involved?