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[–] 42 points 6 months ago

This is the University of Central Florida, a decently big CS/engineering school in the area (big feeder for Lockheed Martin). Doesn't shock me that the student body knows what's up.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    What a fucking clueless bitch. She goes on to compare AI with the rise of the Internet, without the most basic understanding that the Internet was supposed to transform our lives for good, while the primary objective of AI is to replace as many human jobs as possible, simply to increase profits, at the expense of nearly EVERYTHING else.

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    [–] 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I get the negative part, but in a way she's right. The Industrial Revolution wasn't perfect nor all great. In one sense both it and agriculture ended up causing so many of our problems. So AI is right there with that.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    The difference is the industrial revolution started by making things more efficient and grew from there. AI is trying to do it backwards.

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  • [+] -14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Who's in the bubble? The woman calling a poorly created neural net the next industrial revolution, or the students not realising the job market has gotten so toxic they aren't getting employed?

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  • [–] 45 points 6 months ago

    I'd argue that the students know this, and is part of the reason they're booing. LLMs have given execs the excuse they needed to cut headcount which has caused the job market toxicity. Of course, LLMs are not ready to replace almost anyone except for those executives.

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  • [–] 28 points 6 months ago*

    It hugely depends on what their fields are. But it's always acceptable to boo AI boosters.

    Calling the largest waste of money since the dawn of money a good thing deserves a swift kick to the face, but since that's illegal, mockery will have to do.

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Gloria Caulfield, the Vice President of Strategic Alliances for real estate firm Tavistock Development

    https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/ai-university-central-florida-graduation-speech-boos-b2974458.html

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Damn, they were really scraping for someone, weren't they?

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Seriously this is UCF right? Their enrollment has been well north of 50,000 for a while now. They have a pretty decent alumni list. What was Daniel Tosh busy? He couldn't do it?

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Perhaps some higher up at the college wanted the speech to be pro AI, and that's the only speaker they found... (I have no idea if that's what happened, but it would be funny if that was why.)

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Yep, someone had an agenda they wanted to promote, and thought it would be a good idea to pitch it to an audience that is geniunely terrified that the career they took out $150,000 in student loans to pay for no longer exists, and they will somehow have to make a monthly $1500 loan payment with a minimum wage fast food job - until they get replaced by a robot.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    She still doesn't fucking get it.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    Love how she doesn't realize the sudden cheers aren't for AI and instead are cheers for the "pre-AI bubble" era.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    “What happened?”

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