Genius Kyunghyun Cho Frustrated with Dumbasses Whining About AI Risk

Oh great, another egghead is mad about how everyone else just can’t seem to ~comprehend~ AI risk. Kyunghyun Cho, an esteemed AI researcher and associate professor at NYU, is just soooo frustrated with how “stupid” the current discourse around AI risk is. Basically, we have a smarty-pants who’s annoyed at the little people for not getting how big and important he and his work is. Must be tough being so brilliant.

Thanks, Professor Obvious

So the esteemed professor is all bent out of shape because he thinks we’re all too scared of some hypothetical Skynet scenario and we’re not focusing on the way lesser minds are actually using AI. Yeah, no sht, Sherlock. He says we need to worry about the “capitalist, biased and racist” ways AI is being misused today, instead of fretting about world domination by killer robots. You know, because humans have *never been known to over-hype disasters.

Implications of this “Revolutionary” Thought

Apparently, now that we’ve all been blessed with Dr. Cho’s wisdom, we’re supposed to wrap our feeble minds around some alternative implications. So here’s the deal: Innovations in technology, including AI, will continue to change the world at an unprecedented pace, while old, simple humans struggle to adapt. Include various economic, ethical, and societal consequences. So let’s just stop all the Terminator rhetoric and instead pull our heads out of our a*ses and focus on the real issues that these brainiacs have undoubtedly been discussing in their ivory towers.

The Hot Take None of You Deserve

Let’s get this straight: AI is changing the world (no duh), and humans have this innate ability to screw things up monumentally. But that doesn’t mean we can blindly march into the future without worrying about the implications. Yeah, the fears around AI risk might be overblown, but let’s give credit to the dystopian-drama obsessed masses for having the foresight to anticipate potential problems. So dear Dr. Cho, keep being frustrated with the plebs as you work on AI, and we’ll keep panicking about how it’s going to destroy us. Seems like a fair deal, right?

Original article:https://venturebeat.com/ai/top-ai-researcher-dismisses-ai-extinction-fears-challenges-hero-scientist-narrative/