A commencement speaker at the University of Central Florida was booed, with graduating humanities students yelling out, "AI SUCKS!"
  • SnarkoPolo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    54 minutes

    The last industrial revolution turned farmers into factory drones. This one will turn tech workers into homeless gig slaves.

  • Amelia42@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2 hours

    And the speech was given to graduating students from the College of Arts and Humanities and the School of Communication and Media.

    Possibly the worst audience to stand in front of and praise the ‘revolution’ of AI

  • ChromaticMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 hours

    How can she be surprised? “Hey, here is this thing we’re building that we hope makes 90% of you obsolete!”, sounds like a great perspective for the future.

    • Flagstaff@programming.devEnglish
      1 hour

      It’s not gonna make them obsolete. It’s gonna keep piling on technical debt from bad practices of which it’s entirely unaware (not that it’s ever “aware” of anything) while tricking dumb upper management, C-suite, and investors into thinking that it can render so many people obsolete, before it all crashes. “Pride comes before the fall.”

  • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4 hours

    Honestly, she isn’t wrong.
    However, the Industrial Revolution was a step forward, the AI revolution is most likely a great filter event. Industrialized Stupidity at Scale; Buliding giant data centers and turbo-charging climate change so some billionaires can race to see who can be the first trillionaire

    • Muffi@programming.devEnglish
      3 hours

      For the working class, the industrial revolution was not a step forward. It took a lot of time, hard union work and political regulation to wrangle the beast that was the industrial revolution.

      • zloubida@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5 minutes

        And it’s the thing responsible for the climate change. It bring wonderful things, but may make the world unlivable for humans so… I won’t call it an unambiguous step.forward.

  • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5 hours

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  • pr06lefs@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3 hours

    here’s a direct link to youtube of the commencement, queued up to the speech in question.

    • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1 hour

      I love that she was genuinely baffled. Hope it makes her reexamine her thoughts on AI.

  • Aniki@feddit.orgEnglish
    3 hours

    how is this worth a post?

    my cat says she wants another snack

    • NekoKoneko@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4 hours

      Maybe they’re booing adults who fail to understand the can/will distinction.