AI Risks No One is Talking About

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[teej_dv]

Thanks for all the nice comments :)

People are asking how I made the presentation, it's using my plugin:


Also, if you want to support the channel, check out boot dev where I have one course done and am working on one for lua :)

[gradycdenton]

"AI will enslave us all!"
"Meh"
"AI will make Typescript the only programming language!"
"Oh no!"

[progste]

The main risk in my opinion is that people trust AI as if it was intelligent.

[hankth]

One quote I read in "The Alignment Problem" really stuck with me:

"AI/ML is a fantastic tool, provided the future looks like the past."

If you your goal is to change the status quo of some sector, tools built with ML are the absolute last thing you should reach for.

The context in the book was a jurisdiction that used an ML system to determine whether to detain someone pre-trial, with the goal of removing human bias. In reality, they encoded human bias into the system and AMPLIFIED it, resulting in far more biased outcomes than before, while removing any mechanism for holding anyone accountable for the biases.

In certain domains, AI/ML are a form of "bias laundering" whereby you preserve expand human biases, but remove any reliable accountability mechanism.

[Mantorp]

It all comes down to: “why learn math when there are calculators which do math better than you”.

Life isn’t about convenience but it’s about learning.

[dezly-macauley]

I saw post where some Software Engineers were talking about how their coding speed tremendously dropped when the tried coding without the AI code editor they had been using for months.

Apparently they were struggling to remember simple things (and not just syntax), and how in general they felt a loss of motivation to learn new things (the accept the first AI answer thing that TJ was talking about).

Imagine paying a company to lobotomize you like this. Maybe I'm just old and grumpy. Maybe I'm just an ex-creative writer, turned programmer who is pissed of at what tech (the last of 3 things I'm passionate about) is turning into.

[GOTHICforLIFE]

My biggest issue with AI right now is the push for it. It feels like the business world has an unhealthy obsession with AI, and as a result i suspect that we will push AI forward at the expense of moral and security concerns/issues.

[paveljagos]

Quote: "LLMs don't seek truth." Exactly! Great point! Thank you!

[steftrando]

I like your style of presenting videos. It feels more like a conference talk and less like a YouTuber. Subscribed.

[jamtart]

The enshittification of LLMs via SEO is something I had not considered

[BitMonkeyJed]

This is a good take. The analogy to a degraded google search with “ads” is interesting.

[logsnroll]

Things learned from this video:

1- VS Code is a curse word.
2- Keep learning what your want to learn, don't worry about LLMs

[Fishd]

Good to hear some rational concerns aired... rather than just "ai ate my hamster" ... nice work.

[SantiagoCento]

I actually took notes from this video. It's very rewarding to see your thoughts validated by other people, i agree 100% with everything. Bias in LLMs are a huge concern.

[paryzfilip]

I missed you TJ. We need more of you on YT.

That take is so true and a bit scary. I've been coding for 7 years professionally, and around 12 years total, and I see so many new people being fascinated by LLM's without seeing the issues they bring 🙃

[shApYT]

"This is not about capitalism"
Describes problems with capitalism in detail

[SMN-yt]

The prompters are alchemists, the programmers are chemists.

[baejisoozy]

Problem solving never goes out of fashion. In the land of the blind proompt engineers (those who have outsourced their faculty of thinking) the guy with the one eye (one who actually understands the code) will be king.

[data]

I 100% agree, when something is abstracted away from your understanding, more and more companies will take advantage of it. Examples; getting your computer fixed, getting your car fixed, the plumber telling you that you need a new "special value on your boiler".

[DCoolMan]

Really love these types of videos. Keep it up!