<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaDTiWaYfcM" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaDTiWaYfcM</a><p>Apple asked Stewart not to have Khan on a podcast.<p>Nor would they let him do the comedic segment on AI.
Why are billions being poured into AI? It's not altruism.<p>"I don't want to live in a world where someone else is making the world a better place better than we are." - some VC probably
Some good points, but unnecessarily tainted by comedy punchlines.<p>I want more people bringing up discussion points without offering a grand solution or taking a side. I have no bloody idea if AI is a good or bad thing in the long run. Or if it's "fair" that it takes away artist jobs by using their previous work. Or if it will take away jobs - and if so, if that'll end up being a good or bad thing. It's still a good discussion to be had. Predictions about the future have a notoriously bad accuracy if you look back
my takeaway is that our tech overlords praise science to the sky while making statements that are not scientific at all and bet their enormous resources on it.
I respect a lot of political critique of Job Stewart and his ability to communicate to the masses in simpler ways. But, I felt this was way off the mark. It loses the logic in order to bring out the comedic appeal.<p>Sure, there are downsides to a new technology that improves productivity. But, it is a tool after all. What are we supposed to do? Not research anything new because it might put somebody off their job? Keep mining coal because the coal miner might lose their job? Keep running ICE because the workers at an ICE factory might lose their job?<p>There is always a cost to progress. It is better to talk about managing the progress (regulate that all AI needs to be open to analysis, publish their weights etc, tackle reproducibility of results etc.) instead of dumb fear mongering. Even Job Stewart cannot stop LLMs from being improved.
As a former Dr of Mopping, how dare Jon elevate that profession so highly. It's truly a shitty job.<p>But he has a point, cars robbed everyone of transport by carriage. And maybe one day ai bikes will rob cars of their use. Despite the doom and gloom occasionally I have faith in humanity.