Eric Schmidt booed at University of Arizona after praising AI

rvz

Figure 1 - Former Google CEO with a vested interest in AI companies who just wants to watch the world burn tokens for the 'benefit of humanity'.

yacin

Out of touch exec commencement speeches will continue until morale improves.

stavros

Honest question, are people against AI, or against AI being solely in the hands of a few massive companies, thus concentrating wealth even more? Are people against local models as well? What if they could run Claude at home (maybe with the same power requirements as now, but maybe with much less upfront cost).

float4

As someone who's in his late 20s and didn't (consciously) witness the dotcom crisis I want to ask the older people here: was this also part of the dotcom bubble era? Were people working in bookstores angry at Amazon, people working in retail fashion angry at fashion ecommerce stores, etc?

lioeters

Ex-CEO of Google telling a crowd of young graduates entering society, "You will work for AI." Then trying to counter the boos with remarks like: "If you get offered a chance to ride on the rocket ship, you don't ask questions you just get on." This is not only about AI the technology, it's the deserved anger against the privileged and powerful for their utter mismanagement of society. The youth sees through the bullshit. Good on them, there may be hope for humanity after all.

ChrisArchitect

More discussion on the linked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096674

tim333

They have the full speech here https://youtu.be/b1eM3jv0vWY?t=7968 There's quite a lot less booing vs cheering compared with the linked recording which I guess was done on a phone near some people who didn't like it.