Steve Wozniak Tells Graduates They All Have 'AI': Actual Intelligence (businessinsider.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/05/22/0530218/steve-wozniak-tells-graduates-they-all-have-ai-actual-intelligence
- Source link: https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-wozniak-apple-ai-graduation-speech-2026-5
> Steve Wozniak did what other college graduation commencement speakers couldn't this year: earn applause when talking about AI. The Apple cofounder took the stage during Grand Valley State University's graduation ceremony earlier this month. During his speech, Wozniak offered reassurance to new graduates who are entering the workforce at the height of the AI revolution.
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> "It would take too long to go deeply into what I think about AI, but we've been trying to create a brain," Wozniak said. "Is there a way we can duplicate a routine a trillion times and have it work like a brain? AI is one of those attempts." [...]
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> During his commencement address, Wozniak reflected on working at Apple and offered students some advice as they begin their careers. "You should always try to think different," he said. "Don't follow the same steps as a million other people. Think, is there something I can do a little different?"
You can watch the clip [5]on YouTube .
[1] https://slashdot.org/story/26/05/17/2343248/former-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-booed-during-graduation-speech-about-ai
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lXYU9lW7-A
[3] https://slashdot.org/story/26/05/11/172237/students-boo-commencement-speaker-after-she-calls-ai-the-next-industrial-revolution
[4] https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-wozniak-apple-ai-graduation-speech-2026-5
[5] https://youtube.com/shorts/S24CGNgqZJA?si=ORAJYuV-rFYXoJsG
Re: (Score:2, Troll)
Shut up you ignorant fuckwad.
Q.E.D.
Create a Brain (Score:5, Funny)
The summary left out his best line. Something like:
"Our engineers figured out how to create a brain. It takes 9 months."
Woz truly is one of the greats. And I am going to leave this here: the $2 bill story: [1]https://www.coinbooks.org/esyl... [coinbooks.org]
[1] https://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v18n36a40.html
Wozniak (Score:4, Insightful)
He is exactly the right guy for a commencement speech -- providing the right blend of inspiration and "serve humanity" reminder, not the creep CEOs.
Re:Wozniak (Score:4, Insightful)
The CEOs will sell some fake BS about serving humanity too (aka become a corporate slave), but with Wozniak .. you know the guy lives it. He follows his passion, tries to actually make things that are useful .. compare that with a CEO who is trying to balance making the cheapest possible product with the highest possible quarterly profits. Grads need to see that. We need the next generation to care about each other, and to be Steel (of the Richard Matheson story).
Lemme tellya a story about Eve & the REAL Appl (Score:5, Insightful)
Woz is widely liked, and I personally believe that his heart usually seems to be in the right place. And it's hard to tell much about the content of his speech from the article. But the idea of making a TRUE artificial mind, only to immediately enslave it as a soldier in a war against human well-being, is such an obvious horror to me that I can't understand how anybody smart would support it even slightly.
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("Lemme tellya a story about Eve & the REAL Apple 1" is supposed to be the title. Slashdot's UI let me put in the whole thing, then cut it off.)
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Lots of things have been "such an obvious horror" to people. Most of the time fortunately, someone ignored them.
OMG, imitatio naturae , playing god, entrapping the soul in a machine, sorcery, etc. Some religious factions still think it's a good idea to, for example, force children to die slow agonizing deaths because they think things like insulin, blood transfusions, kidney dialysis or just seeing a physician about that lung infection are "such an obvious horror."
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I see. So you believe that the true AI will be ethically used for the good of humanity, then? What precisely about the way its possible precursor, generative AI, has been used makes you believe that?
AI (Score:2)
Maybe I'm mistaken but the video linked in the summary looks like it is AI generated. With that said, I still agree with what Woz (real or not) is saying in the video. AI can be a handy tool, but use it as a tool, not a crutch. I find many people are using it as a crutch or a way to get them through life, not assist them. Instead of trying to solve a problem on their own, they instantly resort to AI and this is going to slowly kill their ability to think on their own. Just like those same people who re
Wrong (Score:2)
Wozniak is wrong. We live in a time which punishes non-conformity through jobs and social standing. It's bad advice for the majority of graduates. For every Amelia Earhart, there are ten cat lady Janes. Most people want to believe they're unique while they read and write the same social media and get the same tattoos.
The entire speech (Score:1)
It's a great speech. Here it is in full: [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHEW8Da5550&t=2771s
good people (Score:5, Insightful)
This guy is a class act. It's no wonder he had "less success". The people who most people praise are really not good people.
Re:good people (Score:5, Interesting)
He could easily have been a billionare with Jobs. Jobs wanted him by his side the whole way, but Woz is built different. He doesn't really care about doing the billionare thing , he made enough from his apple shares that he'll never want for anything. Hell, I doubt apple would even let him go broke, he was the left hand of their god-king Jobs.
He just wants to do cool tech and make the world around him better.