A straightforward dismantling of AI fearmongering videos uploaded by Kyle “Science Thor” Hill, Sci “The Fault in our Research” Show, and Kurz “We’re Sorry for Summarizing a Pop-Sci Book” Gesagt over the past few months. The author is a computer professional but their take is fully in line with what we normally post here.
I don’t have any choice sneers. The author is too busy hunting for whoever is paying SciShow and Kurzgesagt for these videos. I do appreciate that they repeatedly point out that there is allegedly a lot of evidence of people harming themselves or others because of chatbots. Allegedly.
This is actually a very good channel, holy shit. Most of the content seems to boil down to “Clean Code sucks, so-called “10x developers” are primadonnas that make the world worse, testing is important, no, more important than that”. Old dude in the trenches since the 80s spitting the same straight facts I’ve been trying to teach everyone who’d listen for the measly 7 years of my career.