Artificial Intelligence Professor Isn’t Worried About The Future | Gianmarco Soresi | Crowd Work

"It's always the user's fault" that guy is IT

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This 'professor' has zero critical thinking skills.

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He's right tho. LLMs are not nearly as capable as people give them credit for. I liken it to a magician pulling a coin from behind a person's ear, and the person says "free money! Let's team up and get rich!"

Professor sounds like an idiot, wonder where he works.

Being a tenured AI professor and thinking that anything that goes wrong with the hallucinating, blackbox, plagiarism machine is down to "user error" is incredibly fucked, actually.

Did he say user's or userer's fault?

The problem is the users, the top 1%, want it to replace white collar workers and have already started. Even sadder is that AI doesn't even do a good job.

There are AI things in the medical detection sector that have the ability to change lives for the better, but having AI decide who gets their live saving surgery covered by insurance
(especially when programed not to) or not is the just the first glimpse at the damage it could do to the systems that uphold human civilization.

AI was meant to assist humans, but the richest people in the world want to use it to replace us so they don't have pay workers.

Best crowd work of the year, so far

Asking an expert on how to ask a chatbot how to write a letter

The funny thing is some of the AI's with voices throw in a "hmmmm" while they're computing. For whatever reason this guy is talking like ai. 😂

a professor teaching people how to 'use ai better'? jesus christ, at least at our university theyre actually teaching about the technology itself, so just a fuckton of math

i can imagine the professor not having teaching credentials and is just some tech firm employee the firm paid the university to bring in

He is teaching college students to use chatgpt... How could you possibly need instruction, it does everything automatically

At first, I thought this was SOOOO BORING! BUT THEN! Wow, that story arc was brilliant! You can't make this 💩up!

There is currently an attorney who got sanctioned for using ChatGTP that made up legal citations in a filing. Go ahead with Ai - FAFO

I am convinced that as a german, you only adopt the James Bond villain accent after completing your phd

If you have to use Google to double check, the technology is worthless and not ready to be taught.

Does Gianmarco really not know a German accent?

My enviromentalist friends use ai for brainstorming and I’m staring at them disolving in the irony.
Person: sends smoke signs to sky how do i make the world a better place
World: …

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This show was so fun to watch - was in the crowd during this clip and this joke was the best

Can’t believe most people commenting don’t seem to have a clue about the technology!

Hey y’all! I actually work on extinction from AI every day, and if you want to too, look up bluedot impact or 80000 hours to become ready for the fight to stop future AIs from being evil! Who knows, you might just save the world.

Good luck!

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oh see i have had an ai professor but we learned how an ai works and how to make one conceptually. like as part of my computer science course. learning how to use them better is crazy for a class like.

anyway incredibly naive to believe it's the user's fault, and that there are no other concerns? that's nuts lmao

So the people teaching AI are stupid and thoughtless.

It's jewsers fault

I had a compulsory class that introduces AI and basically taught us how to "write better prompts" a few years back. It was kinda insane in hindsight because they told us that basically some people have "innate intuitive skills to write better prompts" than others lol

Oh good! my career is under threat because people who haven't really thought about any downsides of AI are being triggerhappy! Wonderful! Just FUCKIN' Wonderful!

Remember the ai tech bros play of the day is to "placate until its too late."

Like the oil industry theyre on it for short term gain and dont care who or what they destroy in the process. Stay aware and take care around them. Dont let them breeze through without blowback.

What I like is that all the people complaining about AI stealing their jobs probably order a lot of shit from Amazon and other online stores.
But I guess lost jobs don't matter for people who work in retail, right?

Automation isn't a problem if all the workers in a business own the business, and the machines. Then they can all share the profits with a lighter workload. When a tiny minority own everything, the machines are used to make them rich, and fuck everyone else! We need worker co-ops, people!

AI causing widespread misinformation is already a massive problem

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the professor is right though, it is user error, it's not like the ai decides to eliminate humanity in the paperclip scenario

but also, worrying about that stuff is way too early, current "ai" can't consistently produce correct answers to simple questions

The truth is, the chances that he's a descendant of Nazi Germany is far higher than you might think.
Operation Paperclip and Operation Overcast saw 1600 German Nazi engineers, scientists, technicians along with their families recruited and relocated into by the USA after ww2. Thats a heck of a large extended family tree. I don't even think a lot of Americans know this, or that they were used to found NASA. The V2 rocket that sent the Apollo missions to the Moon was Nazi technology, and the only reason the USA 'won' the space race.
This a German professor, of AI, that has tenure, all i'm saying is the chances of that just being a coincidence or not is a valid thought to have thats all.

Being in academia, this is probably the first time this dude got pushback. So many "new things" are like that, those on the hypetrain are rarely, if ever, confronted publicly and it shows because the moment the bubble bursts they immediately move on to the next iteration of it.

Just the enviromental disaster that the mass adoption of crypto, blockchain and "Generative" AI (LLMs) would cause is way more pressing than Skynet. These are not efficient technologies, just propped up by venture capital. Yet we all have to pretend they are awesome, until someone pulls the rug.

- 57% of published AI researchers say there is a significant risk of human extinction from AI ("Thousands of AI Authors on the Future of AI").
- 300+ leading AI experts signed a statement saying that "Mitigating the risk of human extinction from AI should be a global priority" (CAIS Statement on AI Risk).
- Among AI experts, the minority who have familiarity with basic AI safety concepts are much more likely to view the future of AI as uncontrollable agents rather than simple tools ("Why do Experts Disagree on Existential Risk and P(doom)? A Survey of AI Experts").
- Most of the very top AI experts in the world -- including Nobel Prize Laureate Geoffrey Hinton and the world's most cited living scientist Yoshua Bengio -- have been very public about the fact that superintelligent AI could take over and destroy the world within the next decade or two.
- Superforecasters with deep technical knowledge of AI and sophisticated models of the behaviors of companies, nations, and individuals involved, have constructed highly detailed, technical, plausible scenarios showing that AI could disempower humanity by 2027. ("AI 2027")

In other words, no matter how you slice it, the very most credible people on the subject say the risk of human extinction from AI is real, and is much closer than you think.

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Quick question are James Bond villain generally German ?

Classic stereotype of a complacent tenured professor. He got tenure and stopped giving a shit. He could teach AI ethics but chooses to create more "prompt engineers". What a coward and a joke

Software developer here, everything that guy said is 100% correct.

The things laypeople worry about regarding "AI" (I don't like this term, but I'm using it for convenience here) are things experts don't worry about at all. For example, there will never be a robot uprising. Skynet will never enslave humanity. These are all ideas based on how humans would act if they had such opportunities, not how machines work. A machine doesn't have an ego, it doesn't have ambitions, desires, insecurities, etc. These are the things that lead to authoritarianism. Another thing laypeople often talk about is plagiarism. If you use AI to steal content, that's your fault, as the guy said. If I use a camera to take a photo of someone's painting and then try to sell it as my own, that's not the camera's fault. Another common worry is AI taking people's jobs, which again is misplaced. For example, if you are an artist and Disney fires you to replace you with AI, guess what? That means you can literally be Disney and use AI to do the same job as Disney. If AI tools are so good that they can replace a roomful of employees, then you can use the same tools to do the same thing as your employer did. And since you are an artist, the same tools are much more valuable in your hands than in the Disney executive's who fired you. As long as AI is decentralised, accessible, and open source, it is an immensely powerful equaliser. It's the digital equivalent of socialising the means of production.

I find it really surprising that a lot of people who are otherwise leftists suddenly defend jobs under capitalism. If AI makes all jobs obsolete, then that will literally be the end of capitalism. We could enter a new era of a post-scarcity society with universal basic income. That is the direction we should be pushing, not trying to stop access to AI.

Also, this was not mentioned in the video, but stop trying to limit AI through legislation. Because of lobbying, legislation will only benefit mega-corporations at the cost of everyone else. We don't want AI restrictions. We want as much access as possible.

Google search has built in Gemini AI now, so his problem with his students using more AI than Google seems odd

AI is a huge problem. Everyone who doesn't believe that is in denial. But that's ok, they'll find out just how bad it is along with the rest of us- once it's too late to do anything about it.