Steve Wozniak Tells Graduates They All Have 'AI': Actual Intelligence (businessinsider.com) 31
While other commencement speeches have been met with boos for hyping up artificial intelligence, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak reminded college graduates that they already posses "AI" of their own: "actual intelligence." He framed AI as an attempt to duplicate brain-like routines, and encouraged students to "think different" as they enter a workforce being reshaped by automation. Business Insider reports: Steve Wozniak did what other college graduation commencement speakers couldn't this year: earn applause when talking about AI. The Apple cofounder took the stage during Grand Valley State University's graduation ceremony earlier this month. During his speech, Wozniak offered reassurance to new graduates who are entering the workforce at the height of the AI revolution.
"It would take too long to go deeply into what I think about AI, but we've been trying to create a brain," Wozniak said. "Is there a way we can duplicate a routine a trillion times and have it work like a brain? AI is one of those attempts." [...]
During his commencement address, Wozniak reflected on working at Apple and offered students some advice as they begin their careers. "You should always try to think different," he said. "Don't follow the same steps as a million other people. Think, is there something I can do a little different?" You can watch the clip on YouTube.
"It would take too long to go deeply into what I think about AI, but we've been trying to create a brain," Wozniak said. "Is there a way we can duplicate a routine a trillion times and have it work like a brain? AI is one of those attempts." [...]
During his commencement address, Wozniak reflected on working at Apple and offered students some advice as they begin their careers. "You should always try to think different," he said. "Don't follow the same steps as a million other people. Think, is there something I can do a little different?" You can watch the clip on YouTube.
good people (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:good people (Score:5, Interesting)
He could easily have been a billionare with Jobs. Jobs wanted him by his side the whole way, but Woz is built different. He doesn't really care about doing the billionare thing , he made enough from his apple shares that he'll never want for anything. Hell, I doubt apple would even let him go broke, he was the left hand of their god-king Jobs.
He just wants to do cool tech and make the world around him better.
Re:good people (Score:5, Insightful)
This guy is a class act. It's no wonder he had "less success". The people who most people praise are really not good people.
Steve Jobs was totally irrelevant without Woz. Steve was a fake-it-till-you-make-it kind of guy. A lot of Trump qualities actually. Woz made Steve.
Re:good people (Score:4, Insightful)
This guy is a class act. It's no wonder he had "less success". The people who most people praise are really not good people.
Steve Jobs was totally irrelevant without Woz. Steve was a fake-it-till-you-make-it kind of guy. A lot of Trump qualities actually. Woz made Steve.
And Steve made Woz. Apple just happened to have the right two people involved from the start. Without Jobs, Woz would likely just been another guy who liked to play with electronics. Both were essential in their own way.
Jobs Did It Without Woz (Score:2)
Eh, I am no Apple fan, nor a Steve Jobs fan, but the little I know does not support the assertion that Woz made Jobs; nor that Jobs was irrelevant without Woz.
Woz left Apple because Jobs' Macintosh was getting all the attention.
Woz did not go with Jobs to create NEXT, which lead Jobs back to his throne at Apple.
While Jobs created the next generation of computing that is the foundation to Apple today, Woz made the first universal television remote.
Now I would probably pick hanging out with Woz nine time out
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Indeed. As a group, humans are incapable to sanely evaluate individuals. The ones with the most money and power are almost always the scammers and the scum.
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Not true at all. LLM-type AI is fare more limited as even the dumbest fuck. The only thing it has is a stellar knowledge base. But actually doing things? Not so good. And understanding things? Zilch.
All the people fawning over LLMs do not really understand them or what they can do. Essentially it is somewhat better search with an NLP interface. Nice, but not a game-changer.
Create a Brain (Score:5, Funny)
The summary left out his best line. Something like:
"Our engineers figured out how to create a brain. It takes 9 months."
Woz truly is one of the greats. And I am going to leave this here: the $2 bill story: https://www.coinbooks.org/esyl... [coinbooks.org]
Re: Create a Brain (Score:3)
The real difficult part is installing the software. That takes decades. And the installer often fucks up so bad, it essentially fries the machine.
Wozniak (Score:5, Insightful)
He is exactly the right guy for a commencement speech -- providing the right blend of inspiration and "serve humanity" reminder, not the creep CEOs.
Re:Wozniak (Score:5, Insightful)
The CEOs will sell some fake BS about serving humanity too (aka become a corporate slave), but with Wozniak .. you know the guy lives it. He follows his passion, tries to actually make things that are useful .. compare that with a CEO who is trying to balance making the cheapest possible product with the highest possible quarterly profits. Grads need to see that. We need the next generation to care about each other, and to be Steel (of the Richard Matheson story).
Lemme tellya a story about Eve & the REAL Appl (Score:5, Insightful)
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Lots of things have been "such an obvious horror" to people. Most of the time fortunately, someone ignored them.
OMG, imitatio naturae, playing god, entrapping the soul in a machine, sorcery, etc. Some religious factions still think it's a good idea to, for example, force children to die slow agonizing deaths because they think things like insulin, blood transfusions, kidney dialysis or just seeing a physician about that lung infection are "such an obvious horror."
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I didn't say I believe anything. I commented that belief, particularly the specific one you expressed, has been a shitty way of making decisions about new technology.
In fact, I think AI has already been a net positive for humanity and will likely be a very big positive if we get it working the way some people think we will, just like previous forms of automation. Many of the things you take for granted are AI, and you probably don't even realize.
The industrial revolution caused a lot of social upheval, incl
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"Smart" != "moral". Some of the most evil fucks have been pretty smart. Obviously, to be a smart evil fuck, you have to ignore some things, but high intelligence does not come with the skill to apply it competently and equally to all questions that arise.
AI (Score:3)
Maybe I'm mistaken but the video linked in the summary looks like it is AI generated. With that said, I still agree with what Woz (real or not) is saying in the video. AI can be a handy tool, but use it as a tool, not a crutch. I find many people are using it as a crutch or a way to get them through life, not assist them. Instead of trying to solve a problem on their own, they instantly resort to AI and this is going to slowly kill their ability to think on their own. Just like those same people who rely so heavily on GPS when driving that they ignore their own eyes and drive into construction sites, into bodies of water, off cliffs, etc.
We are entering a very interesting time for the human race. I can see many good things happening from AI, like radical medical advancements or better ways to design products. But I can also see a large chunk of the population becoming absolutely dead weight and essentially mindless drones as they lose their ability to read, write, or even think clearly because they allow AI to do it for them.
Wrong (Score:2)
Wozniak is wrong. We live in a time which punishes non-conformity through jobs and social standing. It's bad advice for the majority of graduates. For every Amelia Earhart, there are ten cat lady Janes. Most people want to believe they're unique while they read and write the same social media and get the same tattoos.
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Wozniak is wrong. We live in a time which punishes non-conformity through jobs and social standing. It's bad advice for the majority of graduates.
Our current systems are overwhelmingly unsustainable. Maintaining the status quo means ensuring our collective demise.
The entire speech (Score:5, Informative)
I second that shit (Score:3)
Iconoclasm is the path to financial success. I definitely agree with that. Assuming the masses are retarded and usually wrong has time and time again placed my performance above my colleagues and investment peers.
haha if only (Score:1)
Wozniak is so wrong. Most grads appear to be sorely lacking in actual intelligence, or common sense.
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