Silicon Valley’s richest nerds appear lifeless sure that AI will make our world a greater place. Not everyone seems to be so satisfied, nevertheless. At SXSW this week, a sizzle reel that featured convention panelists speaking effusively in regards to the new expertise was roundly booed by disgusted viewers members.
The reel in query was proven earlier than the premiere of the brand new rom-com The Fall Guy. The video, which is lower than a minute lengthy, options panelists—together with famous tech journo Kara Swisher—saying stuff like “you want to cease resisting and beginning studying” about AI, and “as an alternative of one thing you could have to withstand,” people ought to “discover methods to leverage AI to speed up quicker.” One speaker helpfully tells viewers members: “Be a kind of people who leverages AI, don’t be run over by it.” Throughout her section, Swisher, who lately got chummy with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to advertise her new ebook, mentioned that each firm will use AI to “work out how” to grow to be “extra environment friendly.”
Right here’s the reel:
Sure, wow! I suppose resistance is futile, guys. Higher simply assimilate to the Borg when you’re forward and cease worrying about stuff like job automation and AI-guided warfare. The whole lot’s going to be cool if we simply assist AI now!
Properly, viewers members weren’t having it. The video received booed. Like rather a lot.
Right here’s the response to the reel:
Selection notes that lots of the viewers members who booed have been doubtless “writers and actors who simply spent a lot of 2023 on the picket line attempting to reign within the probably damaging energy of AI.”
Sure, not all people is as enthused in regards to the “AI revolution” because the tech trade’s jetsetter class. Unsurprisingly, the people who find themselves extra more likely to lose a job moderately than achieve one attributable to technological disruption aren’t big followers.
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