Jon Stewart Skewers AI Hype While Problems Persist
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Jon Stewart is annoyed that AI has not lived up to its promises and is mostly just creating spam and scams.
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He plays a montage of CEOs hyping up AI to highlight the absurdity of their claims about its potential.
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Stewart argues that the claims about AI freeing people from work are attempts to justify cutting jobs that could be done by "thoughtless machines."
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So far, AI has not solved any major problems like climate change or disease, despite big promises, and instead is using lots of energy for useless things.
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Stewart contends that profits are being prioritized over considerations for human quality of life as AI expands.