AI Bullshit vs AI Reality
There’s a lot of BS & hype out there right now about AI. In this video I attempt to cut through the BS and identify the reality. Approximate Transcript: Hi, this video is about AI BS versus AI reality. There’s actually this really, I thought really well done video by this comedian, I can’t remember his name. But this is what he looks like that I thought was actually really thoughtful and really well done a lot of ways. And he had a lot of points about things that I think were were practical and realistic. But that also sometimes, I think, missed the point and missed the conclusion. And so I thought it would be useful to shoot a separate video talking about some of the stuff that is BS, because he brings up a lot of valid points. And I do recommend you watch it, especially if you’re feeling too high on AI, and you think it’s like the best thing ever, when a kid is going to be able to do everything. And you also, you know, find yourself wondering, like, is this really AI? And this is a valid point that he brings up, you know, he says it’s a real field of computer science. But a lot of what we’re seeing right now is AI marketing, where people just slap ai ai on things. And I think I remember I saw a picture a political cartoon where basically somebody had named a book AI about AI, and then the company paid for it because it had AI in there. It’s a really funny joke about like, AI, pizza, AI, volume Nam, stuff like that. That is just sort of like hey, just trying to market things and say it because it’s hot right now. This is any kind of compares it to like crypto in the metaverse. So I’d say the metaverse is dead. Crypto, and they made over promises. I don’t know if it really if there’s really a potential there for it to do is nearly as much value as some of the people that talked about it. Additionally, you know, there’s a lot of jokes going around. There’s a lot of people who were super into crypto that are now super into their crypto experts, and now they’re AI experts. And that’s not me, I never really was that interested in crypto. I did have some Bitcoins that I sold at about between 42 and $45,000 when it was at that point, and I was never really a super big believer in crypto, just because I didn’t really it just wasn’t obvious to me. That doesn’t mean that there isn’t there. It wasn’t obvious to me like the kind of the broad applications for it. It did seem like it seemed like there was some potential with the blockchain. But there’s still some major issues with the blockchain. So I think crypto being people being disappointed in it is accurate. And the metaverse I don’t even like immediately dismissed. I don’t even really know what really what the objective was there. I thought that was even dumber. And I remember hearing something like Disney had like a team of 20 or 50 people who were just for the metaverse, which is kind of crazy to me that they laid off as the metaverse basically is dead. And that he talks about like an AI D DJ. I like his term AI tech bros, which I’m not sure if I count is that probably not the game a little bit more reasonable. I’m not trying to say AI does everything it may be I do sometimes say that just to be joking. With the 42 robots thing, it’s a reference to, to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, among other things, and we’re, you know, AI is the answer to life and everything. And to some degree, it has the potential to do that. But, you know, I think he also acknowledges that there, there are some genuine benefits for it. So I’m going to go into some a lot of his criticisms of AI in specifics and point out where I think he’s wrong and where I think he’s right or, or maybe something a lot of cases just kind of half, right. I still don’t like this, he’s really funny. So at a minimum, you’ll, you should be entertained. He talks about full self driving, this is something he jumps into pretty heavy. And I think he’s right and wrong about this. You know, Elon Musk has been saying full self driving cars coming in a year since 2014. True, he did finally deliver on it. Air quotes, I have it in my car, I shot a separate video on it, as well. So you can check that out on the channel. But he did kind of deliver on it in 2022. Towards the end of the year, it whether or not it’s full self driving, and I would say no, I do know some people, I have a model three, and someone has a Model S who says it’s way, way better than what I’m experiencing. So maybe the Model S is better. It’s also a newer car. So maybe there’s slightly better hardware or something in it that makes his better. But I want to point out something here, which is that just because it’s can’t be solved now, doesn’t mean it can’t be solved. And this is really important to understand, because it seems to be an assumption that I hear over and over again, not just for self driving, but for all sorts of things. And there’s a little bit of a theme and a few other places like this was envisioned like the Wright brothers. Where we started off at was so far from you had these old timey pictures of these guys like flapping their wings, and thinking that that’s gonna help them fly and
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