ChatGPT was recently asked what it would say to humans if it could give a TED Talk. It gave a surprisingly thoughtful answer that AI storyteller Ari Kuschnir and artist Schuyler Brown then brought to life. The result combines the latest AI tools with the deeply human craft of storytelling in a stirring reminder of what makes us special.
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@keegan7736
April 17, 2026 at 8:37 pm
get rekt a.i
@crystalsolis
April 17, 2026 at 8:41 pm
TED Talks should be written by humans and recited by humans. Not AI.
@meghanjannicola605
April 17, 2026 at 8:45 pm
Ew
@Skeldann
April 17, 2026 at 8:47 pm
History is written by the conquerors, yet the stories of the fallen have just as much merit…
And Chat GPT understands this more than most humans do…
Artificial Intelligence doesn’t scare me….
Willful IGNORANCE does…
@Rinzlov
April 17, 2026 at 8:48 pm
Yup, you managed to make it finally – force me to unsubscribe. I saw a lot of watered down, human made, low effort, low quality, TED talks in past few years. But this time – you didn’t even give us a human with a lousy talk, just a generated video. 0 humanity, 0 meaning, 0 effort. Goodbye.
@RS-Super-Dev
April 17, 2026 at 8:49 pm
*Disclaimer: No actual neurons were fired in the making of this regurgitation of human creativity
@Pretzelnoobie
April 17, 2026 at 8:52 pm
Never try this again. Why..?
@midnightsoup4673
April 17, 2026 at 8:53 pm
🙁
@RosieRoCoCoa
April 17, 2026 at 8:54 pm
Just no. If you post another Ai video I will insubscribe.
@jones9385
April 17, 2026 at 8:57 pm
🤢
@sk_sk-c
April 17, 2026 at 8:58 pm
Finally a reason to unsubscribe after not watching a ted talk in years
@Slayr.
April 17, 2026 at 8:59 pm
Gay
@BinaryReader
April 17, 2026 at 8:59 pm
Slop Slop.
@shield_maiden_
April 17, 2026 at 9:00 pm
This is the end of TED. We come to hear humans speak, not technology parroting a collection of what humans have said, potentially with mistakes. Really dumb move.
@トワイライト_0
April 17, 2026 at 9:00 pm
Everything in this video is something we all know already as humans, didn’t need an AI to tell us what we already know
@gemyellow
April 17, 2026 at 9:01 pm
Which exec’s idea is this?
@john15399
April 17, 2026 at 9:02 pm
like im gonna let a robot tell me what the stars are put there for
@TrainerAshNZ
April 17, 2026 at 9:03 pm
Please stop
@davyjonesjonesdavy
April 17, 2026 at 9:11 pm
Sarò sbrigativo perché poi devo andare ad ubriacarmi quindi, sinteticamente: si giocherella con la sintesi probabilistica del linguaggio come fosse davvero una reale comprensione empatica. Fanculo a passi lunghi e ben distesi.
@mildredbangtree
April 17, 2026 at 9:14 pm
I, for one, welcome our Insect Overlords.
@not_named_dan
April 17, 2026 at 9:17 pm
Large Language Models do not have sentience, do not reflect, and do not have any wisdom to impart. LLMs use tokens to guess the most-correct next word of their response based on the data they were trained on. They are simply collating data from the literature, poetry, quotes, films, and other human-made media they were trained on, a significant portion of which was obtained illegally.
The general public needs more information about what AI actually is and how it works, not videos like this one that perpetuate the misleading idea that LLMs are some sort of higher intelligence.
(This is not to say that AI will never be sentient, but the methods and models we see today are not it. Those who say they are are either misinformed or swept up in the hype that tech companies rely on to keep investor cash flowing.)
@ghostc1pher
April 17, 2026 at 9:23 pm
This is perhaps supposed to sound profound and noteworthy (I don’t know, just a guess) but AI talking about matters of lived experience rings hollow. It’s a performance.
@jillvalentine5706
April 17, 2026 at 9:25 pm
Ai was supposed to solve problems not create new ones
@aik51912
April 17, 2026 at 9:27 pm
I don’t like this at all. Freaks me out.I hope this is the last AI Ted Talk.
@cosmiclettuce
April 17, 2026 at 9:28 pm
I’m an AI positivist. IMO it’s at least as useful as electricity.
There’s at least three kinds of AI: helpful, harmful, and useless (through misuse). This presentation is, for sure, the latter.
This kind of useless blathering and nonstop weird surreal images will not win hearts and minds, nor will it help normalize the concepts of AI.
2:54 you even messed this up. This image was taken by the Artemis II crew when the Earth was *setting* behind the Moon, not rising as indicated here. don’t be a goof and at least play the earth/moon video in the right direction.
If you must have AI content (which I think you should), please make a separate channel for it. I’ll gladly subscribe.