Artificial Intelligence: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Almost a decade ago, I attended a job fair which had a resume specialist. The subject of the seminar was improving chances of your resume being noticed by employers. The specialist's only real advice was to cut and paste the entire job listing that you were applying for into your resume in either a header or footer, change the text to white, and reduce it to one point font size. This way, the algorithms that scan each resume would put yours at the top of the list because it had all the keywords it was programmed to find.

"A.I. is stupid in ways we can't understand" as a software engineer I find this line surprising accurate

absolute best take I heard on this: "we successfully taught AI to talk like corporate middle managers and took that as a sign that AI was human and not that corporate middle managers aren't"

“Final boss of gentrification” is a wonderful line

The Tay AI also made the funniest tweet ever. She said that Ted Cruz wasn’t the zodiac killer cause Ted Cruz would never be satisfied with the deaths of only 5 innocent people

IBM's insight from 1979 is still valid today,: "A computer can never be held accountable therefore a computer must never make a management decision"

What shocks me most about AI is how rapidly many people are eager to trust it with important tasks despite not understanding what the product fundamentally is. It's very good at predicting the next word in a sentence—a hyper-advanced autocomplete. It doesn't think creatively.

"The final boss of gentrification" is one of the most brutal roasts I've heard on this show

the funny thing about the "i want to be alive" is that, since AI just reads info off the internet, the more we talk about self aware AI, the more it will act like it is self aware.

the problem with "opening the black box" is that not even the developers know how it works. It's not the same as source code. it's like a box of sand, and you pour water through it. You see it trickle through, but you have no idea how or why exactly it's choosing the paths that it does.

How he can do this for 30 minutes straight is always incredible.

"He's dressed like the final boss of gentrification" Ok John, that got me real good.

The person who animated clippy didn't have to go that hard, but they did... they did that for us.

I was job searching for 4 months with zero interviews. I rewrote my resume with ChatGPT with minimal edits and got an interview in like 3 days.

As a software developer of over 10 years, I have to say the black box problem persists even on code people have written and are able to read line by line :p

The biggest lesson of AI is one we've faced many times: humans always run right into unknown things with very little concern about where they could go, and things going bad doesn't make us stop.

Whoever on your staff came up with the animation of Clippy deserves a raise.

There are fewer phrases more ominous in the modern world than "trusting companies to self-regulate"

"Pale male data"? Best character on Star Trek:The Next Generation.

"...dressed like the final boss of gentrification" Solid and accurate joke