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@2batyrantking
February 26, 2025 at 10:43 am
No but Teachers Unions will if they have their way by continuing to reward incompetence
@joannot6706
February 26, 2025 at 10:43 am
Not going to happen, having to listen to everything is a hassle.
How annoying would it be if youtube titles, youtube descriptions, comment sections, text documents where all spoken.
the title alone saved me for wasting 16 minutes
@michaelwatts1810
February 26, 2025 at 11:04 am
Sorry but he got one major thing wrong and that is AI is always right. AI will only stress the “truth” of the powerful relegating the average population to being mind slaves.
@thoopsy
February 26, 2025 at 11:19 am
I understand generative AI is the hot new thing but it’s so tiresome. TED has lost a lot of credibility in my eyes.
@JJColb
February 26, 2025 at 11:24 am
There is a total confirmation bias here. I will continue to read my books for the rest of my life. Toodles.
@valeriiege
February 26, 2025 at 11:31 am
The world is definitely moving towards the reality he describes. People definitely prefer video instead of writing, and in the future, the vast majority will prefer video and AI. I will not be one of them. AI is a serious part of my life, but I cannot find the information I find in books on YouTube, which I love very much. I am also someone who likes to take notes. Although I love listening to novels, it does not make sense to listen to books for education. You cannot take notes anyway. I will still be reading books 20 years from now. I will use whatever the future brings us, but books and reading will always remain for me.
@blackspetnaz2
February 26, 2025 at 11:39 am
This guy is missing the point of what humanity means and why we still play chess each other despite AI can do better. Yes, we care to know who is behind the art we consume, yes we care to know is a human, it is the only thing that adds the value. The uniqueness of the human with its flaws we can relate to.
@jendabekCZ
February 26, 2025 at 7:27 pm
But how many people play chess?
@cheersmodreams691
February 26, 2025 at 11:42 am
Just as a picture can say a thousand words our mouths cannot say a single picture. Reading and writing exist because they are a form of communication which corresponds to how we orally convey expression. If they disappear, will talking also disappear?
@Ultraskunk77
February 26, 2025 at 11:59 am
A sales pitch disguised as a TEDtalk… I am going to read a book.
@Atlassian
February 26, 2025 at 12:54 pm
👏
@sirfrancisarthur
February 26, 2025 at 12:57 pm
It’s not impossible for the technology to fail in some kind of a disaster and because not many can write anymore, we’ll start the cycle again by hieroglyphs 🙂
@FAAMS1
February 26, 2025 at 1:13 pm
The barbarians are at the doors!…
@Jontman42
February 26, 2025 at 1:42 pm
Will calculators make us the last generation to add and subtract?
@niccolom
February 26, 2025 at 5:55 pm
Plenty of people can’t add or subtract without the calculator.
They do, however, need to learn how to use a calculator.
@10secondsofmylife
February 26, 2025 at 1:44 pm
sounds like Chat GPT wrote his speech. TED has really gone down the drain, they give everyone with money and nothing to say a platform now.
@scottycrayon
February 26, 2025 at 2:06 pm
No
@devchandbhil3056
February 26, 2025 at 2:21 pm
It’s honestly unsettling how effective the techniques in this book are. I don’t know if it’s good or bad, but after applying what Vibrations of Manifestation teaches, my life started shifting so fast it scared me. I wouldn’t recommend it unless you’re ready for serious change.
@NimTheHuman
February 26, 2025 at 5:18 pm
Damn, that’s a lot of bots (or possibly hacked human accounts) thumbing up this comment… It’s kinda unsettling. 😅
@ramtarjatav5279
February 26, 2025 at 2:21 pm
This book should honestly be banned. It teaches manifestation techniques so powerful they feel like cheating. If you’re not prepared to see your entire reality shift in ways you can’t control, I’d seriously think twice before reading Vibrations of Manifestation by Alex Lane.
@shrawanchouhan1671
February 26, 2025 at 2:21 pm
I genuinely regret reading Vibrations of Manifestation by Alex Lane. Some things should stay unknown. Once you understand how manifestation actually works, you can’t unsee it. Be careful with this book.
@bhagwaanmahajan604
February 26, 2025 at 2:21 pm
I don’t know if I should be recommending this book or warning people about it. The things it teaches are not for everyone. If you’re comfortable living in ignorance, do not read Vibrations of Manifestation.
@remyllebeau77
February 26, 2025 at 2:32 pm
This is dangerous if there isn’t a guiding human hand behind what the AI is showing and teaching. As well as considerable safeguards against political corruption or social movements corrupting AI and giving misleading or outright false information which is already very common for all major AI in use now.
@alexissweatt6060
February 26, 2025 at 3:06 pm
Drawback ?: what if ai technology gets so advanced that it can actually be used to cover up true and real original history and give credit to someone evil and or someone who seized the opportunity to take out an original inventor, explorer etc… people might be able to cheat someone out more thoroughly and/or undermined them. What’s the point in learning tampered history that doesn’t vindicate or give good 😊 credit where credit is due? Doesn’t anyone care about the truth anymore?!❤❤❤❤
@NimTheHuman
February 26, 2025 at 5:26 pm
Writing (specifically, typing words on a keyboard) is the most effective way for most humans to quickly, clearly, and thoroughly communicate their needs/ideas/requirements to an AI.
It’s also why the most productive human teams (doing intellectual work) are primarily passing around text-heavy documents – not images/videos — to exchange/review ideas.
Unless we come up with a more efficient and effortless user experience for putting your ideas into a computer, my guess is “no”. Writing isn’t going away.
However, fast reading will probably be less important (but not useless) since we’ll be able to use AI to generate visual explanations (animated videos, diagrams, etc.) of what others write.
@NimTheHuman
February 26, 2025 at 5:26 pm
Writing (specifically, typing words on a keyboard) is the most effective way for most humans to quickly, clearly, and thoroughly communicate their needs/ideas/requirements to an AI.
It’s also why the most productive human teams (doing intellectual work) are primarily passing around text-heavy documents/messages – not images/videos — to exchange/review ideas.
Unless we come up with a more efficient and effortless user experience for putting your ideas into a computer, my guess is “no”. Writing isn’t going away.
However, fast reading will probably be less important (but not useless) since we’ll be able to use AI to generate visual explanations (animated videos, diagrams, etc.) of what others write.
@niccolom
February 26, 2025 at 5:53 pm
Nothing wrong with that.
We don’t use rotary phones anymore and no one misses it.
We don’t ride horse carriages or use steam engines anymore either.
We don’t travel by ships to other continents as the main means anymore.
Books are obsolete. Don’t cling on it.
@Yesica1993
February 26, 2025 at 6:20 pm
Looks like we’re already there:
“How this content was made
Altered or synthetic content
Sound or visuals were significantly edited or digitally generated. “
@BojanKvakic3
February 26, 2025 at 6:58 pm
I recommend everyone to find the book titled Bevelorus The Hidden Codex of the Financial Alchemists, It changed my life.
@grantlauzon5237
February 26, 2025 at 10:25 pm
I could see using an ai for teaching math or biology. I can also see ai being used exclusively by big brother to explain why the rich should pay even less taxes and how to be a good worker.
@LifeInspector
February 26, 2025 at 11:39 pm
I’m a teacher, and what he’s missing about people learning quickly from high-bandwidth images and video instead of text is that critical thinking about abstraction requires slow and careful thinking, the kind of thinking where one thought leads to another. And careful expression of abstract ideas also requires a slow, iterative process. The slowness of text is a feature, not a bug. If everything moves fast, detail, complexity, nuance, it all gets lost in the rush.
@treflatface
February 27, 2025 at 12:19 am
brilliant insight, thanks for sharing
@misja4122
February 27, 2025 at 4:39 am
Yes, I’m also a teacher and I find that my current students have a more difficult time structuring their texts and providing proper argumentation for their points of view. I do believe this could be achieved in different forms of communication than text alone, but having to slow down and construct or analyze a text is like going to the gym for your brain. Fast communication tends to favor “sounding” convincing rather than actually being convincing in your argumentation.
@DavidShellabarger
February 28, 2025 at 1:21 am
You can just pause the video. I do that all the time.
@manuelb.5042
March 1, 2025 at 1:20 pm
They will use AI to make those texts.
They already do.
The reversal of the Flynn effect is already happening and like this it will certainly increase its speed.
@zeroonetime
February 27, 2025 at 12:42 am
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@TomCourtney
February 27, 2025 at 2:38 am
I disagree with this. Written books are refined and edited pieces of work, so of course are of higher value. This guys ideas are trash.
@FanaticalFuturist
February 27, 2025 at 4:09 am
…. Only if we let it and if we outsource our thinking to the machines. It’s on us to ensure AI doesn’t replace us and the best outcome is AI+Humans …
@mariaantoniettamontella9173
February 27, 2025 at 5:02 am
evviva la Sci-fi
@celestialcircledance
February 27, 2025 at 6:59 am
Hurry up Universal income because how are a lot of us supposed to be able to compete ?
@SogayBrin
February 27, 2025 at 7:11 am
One acronym SMS 🙂
@vincentleone1833
February 27, 2025 at 8:42 am
Text is important because it can leave information out… the mind can improve in how quickly it can read and the size of the vocabulary it has at its disposal for idea compartmentalization. I cannot nor would I want to see words go away
@victorpinasarnault9135
February 27, 2025 at 8:58 am
It’s not guilt. I learn better when I write.
@gunnerandersen4634
February 27, 2025 at 9:28 am
Bullshit, and if not we really are fucked up big time.
@АлександрШевелев-щ1л
February 27, 2025 at 11:08 am
OK, but what about technical texts, formulas etc.?
@geonaedwards7134
February 27, 2025 at 11:33 am
Examples he gave of text that would be better as video: fire safety manual, guitar lessons, horror movie script… hello?? Literature is a completely different animal. AI-generated video will never – NEVER – give you what a novel gives you. It will never engage the brain in the same way (we already know reading and listening are two skills that are divided in the brain, not interchangeable). Sure, make my training manuals into snazzy videos. But killing novels would be killing a part of us. And why? Efficiency. Profit…. Ok. Nice. Great.
@bravo90_
February 27, 2025 at 11:20 pm
the ones that want to know how to read and write will learn it. it juts wont be a requirement. readign an writing is essential to begin social anyway. so they wont be the last generation.,
@ai.physician
February 28, 2025 at 12:52 am
Obviously, reading and writing will still EXIST for quite some time. But, clearly the new AI technology allows greater access to consume and create different kinds of media. This made me think about Khan Academy and Khanmigo and how it can be a great way to SUPPLEMENT traditional classroom learning. As a 50-something year old physician, I’ve used it to learn computer science, quantum physics, differential equations, linear algebra, and some basic astronomy. Obviously, it’s not a substitute for enrolling at a university and attending lectures, reading, textbooks, etc. But those videos are very well done and I’ve learned a lot more as an adult than I ever would have without it. Plus, Khanmigo as well as ChatGPT has helped me reinforce my knowledge in a way I never imagined possible.
@satyamohlan1270
February 28, 2025 at 2:48 am
Oh, Come on. Commodification of content is a good thing according to this guy.
@AITalks-v9u
February 28, 2025 at 10:28 am
Interesting
@Chriliman
February 28, 2025 at 11:45 am
We’ll always have a niche market for how things used to be. They still have live recreations of events from 100s of years ago and that’s awesome!
@jessebengson1015
February 28, 2025 at 11:59 am
Great sales pitch for another worthless over-hyped A.I. that could have been condensed to a text message.
@kanayoadesina4887
March 1, 2025 at 3:09 am
Very interesting perspective. Perhaps the number of alphabet symbols will reduce
@timalete
March 1, 2025 at 10:11 am
The convenience and speed of typing far surpassed cursive writing, leading to a natural decline in its use. Schools responded to this cultural shift by revising their curricula, often prioritizing keyboarding skills over traditional penmanship. Want cursive? There is an app for that. Logic and reason thought conversion to talk? App for that too but few use AI. The logic quality of talk atrophies with failure to improve its logic and reason with beginning AI natural language education in school as an intelligent learning, thinking tool.
@josephfurey4820
March 1, 2025 at 11:50 am
AI is not used even a fraction of what he’s discussing, yet it already accounts for a measurable percentage of global energy use, and playback of audio and video is wholly dependent on access to electricity. Future civilizations would learn infinitely more from surviving books and physical media than from piles of dead iPhones and SD cards
@eceschmidt
March 1, 2025 at 11:47 pm
This video was too slow for me to process. I would get an AI text summary and get the idea in under 1 min. Getting information by reading is self-paced. You can read in detail the parts you need and skim the parts that are not so relevant. You make this selection on the fly as you read and process the content in your head. Doing this on the text is much more efficient than fast-forwarding a video (based on the text cues again). You are not limited by the audiovisual as the information is constructed (if necessary with audiovisual components) in your head with the required detail and abstraction. Watching movies compared to reading novels can be debated for entertainment. Mechanical tasks such as how to fix a faucet or how to install a complicated software with a lot of options to select can be learnt from a video faster/better than some manual with figures, but it is not possible for learning an advanced subject. Unfortunately, what he predicts can be true, resulting in idiocracy (as very well depicted in the movie with the same title).