Who chose a real estate VP for commencement speaker in the first place. That's the peraon we should be calling out of touch.

I had to watch the video. She looks so confused when they start booing. She tries laughing it off, says something else to tout AI and is booed again. Completely tone deaf.

Given the joyful Industrial Revolution comparison, we’re wondering whether the real estate VP is familiar with the history of the term “Dickensian.”

They are, and have been rapidly re-creating it.

Thanks I just assumed everyone on Lemmy donates to 404. Someone else posted the video in this community too. Pretty hilarious.

And in contrast to the avalanche of slop we are currently enduring, the pre-commercialization era of Internet was wild, in a fun way. Yes, we had slop back then too, but it was naïve, gorgeous, hand-crafted slop.

Importantly, the dot-com reaction ranged from "wow this is cool and revolutionary" to, at worst, "ehh.. I don't get it, seems pointless?" No one would have booed someone for praising the good old "information superhighway" back in the day, but many might have scoffed.

For the GenAI, people just actively despise it. It amplifies slop-happy humans to insane degrees, the infrastructure build-out strains local grids and water. Even as a community comes out to say in unison they don't want a datacenter, somehow community governments green light it anyway, over their objections. And so many people are swearing up and down it'll get rid of jobs.

For a new graduate from an Arts and Humanities college especially.... There's like zero reason to cheer and only reason to boo.

Problem is the targe is not the competent experts, but the managers of the competent experts, who have basically eternally been inherently skeptical of those experts and looking for the flimsiest hope to discard them.

Many of the best and most important people let themselves be subordinate to some idiots.

Not pertinent to AI, but just had one of these 'leaders' laying out how some project was going to go and why we didn't even need to bother with any contingencies and that folks would be wasting their time. Every one with a whiff of experience knows these projects don't go as described 90% of the time, and prepping the usual contingencies is less than an hour as long as you just plan to do it in advance. However, the very expensive partner service says they have it in hand, and despite this same partner boffing the last 6 of these in a row, the idiot still has absolute confidence in them...

In short, these guys get put in charge and are idiots and folks let them stay "in charge" because they don't have the will to fight it.

not when you got a pipe connected to your anus just so you can breath in your own farts. She been to the island no doubt

I wish more people would understand that LLMs are "taking" extremely few jobs away. The "chatbots can do a real job" narrative is just there to bump up the stock prices.

A real AI would incur massive job loss, but the job losses we're seeing now being blamed on AI are really just the same normal oligarchal greed at work.

I see not only an era of scamming that will break basic human trust systems but the reliance on it will riddle previously methodical fields like medicine, design and law with a barrage of flaws and falsehoods no one will check until they cause failures.

Not just jobs, but:

• Scammers that make convincing fakes
• Knock-offs that get your views before you realize that it's hollow slop instead of what you were expecting for
• Flooding the field of creative content with hollow stuff devoid of actual creative intent, mistaking verbosity and detail for quality creative content.
• Exploiting small communities that either let big tech walk over them in general, or they just have to bribe a few city managers at pretty modest prices.

I suppose the scammers are about the only arguably common downside between the AI boom and the dot-com boom, but it was at the time less compelling because it was such an 'alien' medium that people weren't trusted, whereas AI is corrupting a familiar medium with even more scam than people are used to.

She is an awful public speaker.

Those earrings are really distracting. What are those diamonds and pearls...at a commencement?

I got a radical idea they are already usless

"Yayyy! Poverty and even more enrichment of the aristocracy!"

The sorts of folks that get invited and accept these sorts of engagements are frequently self absorbed and out of touch. The hubris needed to think some randos want to hear you speak... Only hope is if the person has some particular reason they would make sense (e.g. if they are an alumni, then at least they might feel like they have a connection).

The same general phenomenon as when they thought a centerpiece of the Xbox One release should be.... DVRing the Price is Right..... The same as when blizzard said "Do you guys not have phones?"

If you are lucky, a speaker will just say nothing vaguely specifically.

Radio to television is generous, IMO. LLMs aren't a path to AGI or even particularly useful to most people.

“Pets.com, Webvan, Boo.com, eToys, and Kozmo will bravely lead us into the next Industrial Revolution”

Yeah that does sound dumb.

Look, it'll put all your searches right there at the top in one roughly half-correct paragraph! All it takes is a quindecupling of energy usage and water usage in your community! Get some perspective!!

she is like rich superintendant that was mocking a "Former student" for having a fast food job after graduation.

yes massa sorry massa