Harvard Professor Opens Deep Learning Course by Arguing 'AI Will Not Kill Us'
Wrong_Swimming_9158 · reddit · 2026-09-14
A Reddit user recounts a Harvard deep learning lecture where the professor called AI doom a 'marketing scam': neural nets only process given data, harmful models face the same legal/social constraints as malicious software, and serious production software has always required rigorous processes. Notably, the premise that neural nets can't generate novel data is contested in the field.
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