Jon Stewart Unpacks AI’s Dubious Promise of a "Better Future" | The Daily Show
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This is a segment of The Daily Show hosted by Jon Stewart. He discusses artificial intelligence and comments on statements made by tech leaders such as Donald Trump, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and others. Stewart questions the reliability of these figures and concludes with Jensen Huang discussing the future creation of jobs.
Viewers share a collective laugh over tech billionaires promising to end poverty while hoarding all the wealth.
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“I think a job that might appear is "AI calming specialist". Like when the AI gets angry and wants to wipe out humanity, there's gonna be a bunch of people trying to calm it down, telling it how it's the best and all humans admire it etc. 😂”
Stewart jokes about the new jobs AI will create, including dealing with rogue technology.
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“Elon Musk says AI will make money obsolete. As he collects money at a feverish rate. LOL.”
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“I'm pretty sure that CEO is one of the easiest jobs to replace with AI.”
“The same people who don't want to pay taxes or pay us $15/hr are promising to pay us thousands to not work. It's the least believable promise ever.”
“That's odd, Muse sounds identical to gambling debt-ridden Elmo”