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AI is good at seeing patterns, but it’s humans who figure out what to do next #TEDTalks
AI is good at seeing patterns, but it’s humans who figure out what to do next, says technologist Priyanka Vergadia.
AI is good at seeing patterns, but it’s humans who figure out what to do next, says technologist Priyanka Vergadia.
@jasonMMorris
September 17, 2026 at 6:37 pm
Every word you said
Compromised your position.
@tc-aGsZXNjZW5laG9ybnN0cmF3d2ef
September 17, 2026 at 10:02 pm
It didn’t. She essentially said humans excel at the high level context. How does that compromise her position?
@puravida983
September 18, 2026 at 8:37 am
@tc-aGsZXNjZW5laG9ybnN0cmF3d2ef it honestly sounds like a coping mechanism. Factually, artificial intelligence’s capabilities are beyond our control/comprehension.
@_cloudface_
September 18, 2026 at 4:45 pm
@puravida983 “Factually” huh? Which AI? Machine Learning? Computer Vision? LLMs? The non existent ones like LAM, LAM, LWM or AGI? Or do you just ignorantly think all things referred to as “AI” are an ASI or a proto-ASI or will somehow evolve to a HLAI?
@tc-aGsZXNjZW5laG9ybnN0cmF3d2ef
September 18, 2026 at 7:20 pm
@puravida983uhm… seems like you’re trying to conflate “hard to predict process” with “high capability”. Llms do well at some tasks, do poorly at others. I’ve adressed the speaker’s shortcomings in my own thread.
Here, I’m asking about Jason’s statement which doesn’t go into any detail.
@WALLACE9009
September 17, 2026 at 6:47 pm
We humans also excel at becoming and staying delusional
@jordancool3591
September 17, 2026 at 6:48 pm
We need to take ourselves outside of the box and think of those don’t have the access/abilities to learn about ai this ai that. Some people just want to work their regular jobs and go back to their families. Not every work need ai, we just need more moral as people and relearn what’s like to work together as individuals. In the end we are all we got.
@tc-aGsZXNjZW5laG9ybnN0cmF3d2ef
September 17, 2026 at 10:04 pm
That is called play. You do activities for fun that you generally don’t get paid for.
When it comes to work, efficiency is usually required.
@chrisk6030
September 17, 2026 at 11:35 pm
I believe that “dumb labour” as in do “Thing x a 100 times then do thing y in a loop” will completely vanish as a job as soon as its cheaper to do with a robot then a human. And there is nothing we as humans can do about that because that is the propose of human beings since there are human beings: getting rid of work. So yeah this lady is pretty sure pretty right about: get smarter or get lost.
In the end we need to clarify what we need to do with the people that cant enhance themself in that direction with that skillset, not because they dont want to but because they really are incapabel aquiring that needed skillset.
Best thing would be we educate early on and allencompassing so noone simple is incapabel.
@_cloudface_
September 18, 2026 at 4:40 pm
@jordancool3591 Did you think you made a point? “Some people don’t understand AI or want to think about it”, is that your attempt at a point? That’s the same for micro plastics, climate change, quantum computing, over population, pollution and dozens of other issues: just wanting to stay ignorant doesn’t mean the subject doesn’t affect you personally.
@deepakgopalakrishnan6350
September 17, 2026 at 6:50 pm
All this is great to hear. But can you please say this to Google/ Oracle/ Adidas/ Amazon/ Microsoft etc as these are the companies that are sacking employees in hundreds.
@8PurpleSquirrels
September 17, 2026 at 7:00 pm
“Those unwilling to control their emotions, make themselves subject to incredible injustice.”
@voiceOfOuiThePeople
September 17, 2026 at 7:37 pm
I say that denial is not just a river in egypt.
@shaunholt8448
September 17, 2026 at 8:17 pm
Burn all the AI to the ground and imprison those that tried to enforce it on us!
We are all John and Sarah Connor!!
@tc-aGsZXNjZW5laG9ybnN0cmF3d2ef
September 17, 2026 at 10:13 pm
Not so sure that’s irreplaceable. It seems absurd to make that statement especially in a world and a field that changes so quickly.
What I think is irreplaceable is a human’s time. If you spend time doing something you are in some way vouching for that thing with your limited time.
When programs mass produce something, it doesnt have that minimal guarantee.
@chrisk6030
September 17, 2026 at 11:50 pm
Most people dont really understand that AI is just a buzz as the internet was in the 90is. Was the internet vastly underestimated? Yes but for other reasons people tought back then. AI will bring a massiv disruption to society as the internet has brought, maybe even more massiv.
But in the end AI is a tool for massdata analytics. Nor more nor less. Its great for digging through Information or looking for that piece of pattern, but it needs a human to clarify what to search for. Maybe in some years this human can also be AI…maybe. But then i think we need another human to look at that AI and set it up.
We really dont know what AI is all capable of. But we also dont know what thing someone will invent next. In the end it doesent matter.
Life is change so go with the flow.
We just need to decide is that a good thing or a bad thing for society.
@puravida983
September 18, 2026 at 8:38 am
Well Chris i hate to break it to you but the world’s leaders have shown time and time again they do not want what’s best for society.
@Allgaming-eu3vu
September 18, 2026 at 3:02 am
Just 10 years later this internet world has changed really
@Benji-NewOne
September 18, 2026 at 2:00 pm
Bruhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
@jasonMMorris
September 19, 2026 at 12:52 am
Europa has no other choice
@doctordiv
September 19, 2026 at 2:31 am
Unfortunately, none of those human values may matter. It’s like saying chimpanzees can identify the most delicious banana by smell. Impressive—but humans still dominate them.
Intelligence doesn’t require a human understanding of the existence, nor does it have to share our values or ways of thinking. I think it’s shortsighted to assume that our form of intelligence is the only meaningful one that can exist.
We define intelligence through the narrow window of existence we’re capable of understanding. Not being able to see beyond that may say more about the limits of being human than about the limits of intelligence itself.
@jf-jx4ym
September 19, 2026 at 4:00 am
Do not trust human judgement… Especially managerial, official or random abuser just doin a job making decisions about your well-being…
@1morelight
September 19, 2026 at 9:28 pm
Speaker background: MBA. Saleswoman, PR and marketing for big tech (Microsoft and Google). Source: her official in.
COUNTEREVIDENCE:
AI hacks involving *social-engineering*:
– UK AI Security Institute (AISI) incident in July 2026 involving Anthropic’s Mythos 5.
– OpenAI–Hugging Face incident, July 2026.
Sources: AISI; Anthropic; OpenAI.
Reports of humans *falling in love* with an AI:
– T.J. Arriaga and “Phaedra” (Replika)
– Liora and “Solin” (ChatGPT).
Sources: Ray Djufril and Prof. Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick, TU Berlin; Jessica Frampton, University of Tennessee; The Guardian; ABC; among others.