‘You don’t have the faintest idea what you’re talking about’

Recently had a chance to rewatch Good Will Hunting, and thought Robin Williams’s heart-rending speech to Matt Damon on the bench in the park is something we could also recount to AI, and to ourselves so that we remember what AI really is, and have it be mostly true. Transcript: Thought about what you said to me the other day about my painting. Stood up half the night thinking about it. Something occurred to me. I feel into a deep, peaceful sleep and I haven’t thought about you since. You know what occurred to me? You’re just a kid. You don’t have the faintest idea what you’re talking about. You’ve never been out of Boston. So if I asked you about art, you’d probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo, know a lot about him. Life’s work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientation, the whole works, right? I bet you can’t tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. Never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling. If I…