A comedian who built his entire career on sharp observation and writing just told Harvard grads that their mission is to “destroy AI” and “kill it” and the crowd cheered like it was profound His big insight? “AI is just going to end up making mediocre people dumber.” No shit, Ronny. That’s called tool use. Hammers make mediocre carpenters worse too if they swing them wrong. Calculators made mediocre mathematicians lazier at arithmetic. The internet made mediocre researchers copy-pasters. The difference? Smart, ambitious people use these tools to multiply their output and reach higher levels. The mediocre ones always find ways to stay mediocre. AI just makes it more obvious. He complains that untalented people brag about using AI to draft emails, scripts, and podcasts. Yeah, because creation at scale is now accessible. The barrier to entry dropped, and a lot of mid people are flooding the zone. That’s not AI’s fault. it’s human nature. the talented will still separate themselves by taste, judgment, iteration speed, and originality on top of what AI gives them. This “the journey is the point” romanticism is cute until you realize every previous generation said the same thing about new technology that threatened their ego or workflow. AI isn’t going away. The people who treat it as a powerful (but imperfect) collaborator are going to smoke the ones LARPing as purists who “do it all themselves.” Calling for the destruction of one of the biggest technological leaps in human history because some dumb people use it badly is just lazy comedy at its finest. Not insight. What do you think? is Chieng coping or does he have a point? submitted by /u/savingrace0262
Originally posted by u/savingrace0262 on r/ArtificialInteligence