Luis von Ahn says criticism over strategy change shows ‘anxiety’ about technology replacing jobs
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That’s a plain and simple admission that you are incompetent at your job. You should resign not post puff pieces at FT…
Nah let him keep it longer. I think the company sales can go lower
I feel like the only job AI would be better suited at would be CEO.
I mean, they take in current hype, change a few words and then regurgitate it with slightly different words.
Lol what a gimp
Get the name of my image editor out of your mouth
Lol what an MS Paint
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Seriously - LLMs are much more adequate to do a CEO’s job than an engineer’s. Maybe the crazied scramble to push AI “features” into products is to distract customers, workers and shareholders from this fact?
Then you’re a fucking idiot, anyone could see it coming.
Of course he didn’t expect the blowback. All of the CEOs are in their own little worlds trying to figure out how to make money off of AI. They’re all taking their personal money and investing heavily in AI corporations, so they’re all very pro AI and couldn’t understand why your average person who is pretty sure it’s going to make their life worse through jobs or other means would be anti-AI.
”I’m out of touch with reality” - another dipshit rich guy.
Anti-human little creep, I uninstalled and cancelled my subscription as soon as I heard the news
Look at his old amas on Reddit to see what kind of guy he is. He’s always been a prick.
I looked through a few pages worth of his comments (in English and Spanish) and I didn’t pick up on that. Was there a particular response you were thinking about, or might it have been something that is now deleted?
Around the time they switched to more gamified pathing about two years ago he did not respond well to valid criticisms by people with disabilities in one of those AMAs and it is a major reason why I quit. I will have to dig when I’m on a PC. There were several posts on that subreddit on that topic around that time. I’m not sure if they are still there.
Ok, I think I found it then:
How do you respond to the idea that the new path is much more difficult for neurodivergent individuals to use?
Respectfully, I personally do not agree with this criticism, even though I’ve heard it before. Anecdotal evidence is one thing, but even in this thread there are a lot of neurodivergent individuals who prefer the path.
How do you feel about the criticism of the new path in terms of overall user experience?
We read it all, and have made a number of changes based on the feedback. However, as I said above the new path is better for usage and we also believe it is on average better for learning, since the in the previous layout people spent a lot of time redoing the lessons they already knew only to extend their streak or compete in the leaderboards, while in the new path the vast majority of lessons actually teach people.
What do you think about the decline in stock value since the new path was implemented? Or is the timeframe too short for you to draw meaningful conclusions?
I like the conspiracy theory :) Given that all metrics are equal or better in the new path, I can’t imagine this is related (the stock market has been doing weird things in the last several months, especially for tech companies).
Yea, that is part of it anyway. If you notice, he hasn’t done one since lol. The app got increasingly more terrible anyway, such is enshittification.
Way to reinforce the stereotype, out-of-touch rich dude. Most people who actually work for a living see no benefit from AI, and resent it being shoved into every single product, whether it makes sense or not. Oh well, at least you can burn boatloads of VC money while also destroying the environment and abusing intellectual property to train it!
LLM are actually moderatly useful in my line of work but I still think they are super unethical and terrible, ungodly things.
It’s hardly surprising that these people are out of touch when they’re constantly surrounded in a bubble of yes-men, cultish AI sycophants, VC investors and other “dark enlightenment” enthusiasts.
It’s a pathology, really. A kind of shared delusion in service of global capital.
christ i hate the term “dark enlightenment” more and more it’s being used to be an “inevitable” and romanticised spin to reactionary bullshit, stupidity and panic
I work for an AI company and even we thought what he said was stupid. I hope he gets what he deserves…but unfortunately I don’t know if that’s how capitalism in America works as of late.
CEOs are overall just not smart and we need to stop that belief
Is there really a single person of this belief, after the whole HBO name-change stupidity? That is still among the worst business and branding decisions I have ever seen.
“Well if they are so dumb why do they have so much money???”
I would argue that it is one of the most deeply held American beliefs even if it’s not talked about openly. Successful people are almost always viewed as intelligent by default. Despite all evidence to the contrary.
People STILL call Elon a genius ffs
Luis von Ahn says criticism over strategy change shows ‘anxiety’ about technology replacing jobs
Motherfucker, you’re the one that fired slews of employees to be replaced by text-prediction algorithms. It’s not “anxiety”, you’re fucking doing it.
Yeah, he learned nothing. He’s just upset that everyone didn’t agree with him.
He’s going to keep pushing the same nonsense as soon as the attention blows over, and he’ll be just as surprised when it goes bad.
He vomited an assumption on how people would react, and acted on it. The outcome of his actions proved the assumption wrong. At this stage, a sane / rational person would step back and say “…perhaps I should inform myself”. But no, this bloody muppet had to vomit yet another assumption - why their reaction was negative. *rolls eyes*
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