Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI Next Industrial Revolution

singingwolfboy

https://archive.ph/EvzqM

fullshark

They are both right, the revolution needs to be oriented for ordinary people and college kids to benefit from it or else their attitude is wholly justified. There's basically no reason for them to cheer on a future of trillion dollar corporations using AI services to battle for knowledge work market share.

jklinger410

If you want people to like AI, show them a future that doesn't leave them in abject poverty.

ChrisArchitect

Related: The More Young People Use AI, the More They Hate It https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47963163 Study found that young adults have grown less hopeful and more angry about AI https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704443

RankingMember

Rightfully so. Unfettered capitalism will only end with a bunch of rich people producing and selling the means of living to the rest of us at just the right markup to keep their feet on our throats. Organized labor needs a resurgence in a big way.

JumpCrisscross

> Speaking to graduates of University of Central Florida’s College of Arts and Humanities and Nicholson School of Communication and Media Well, yeah.

lsy

There's a very real possibility that AI proponents completely lose the next generation of adults. The output is not enjoyable to consume, the people who rely on it are not cool, and the effects of using it are unpleasant and hard to defend on aesthetic, intellectual, or moral grounds. There are real use cases for this technology! But the idea that the generation of superficially plausible text is "the next Industrial Revolution" comes out of the same mindset that has turned a neat technology into a banal hellscape for consumers and employees. We desperately need some leadership in companies or institutions that can place this technology in its proper context, and leverage it without getting manic about it.

frb

> College of Arts and Humanities and Nicholson School of Communication and Media Somehow I have a feeling that the reaction would have been totally different if it would have been the EECS graduates. Fear and rejection in certain professions is real and maybe even understandable. I imagine 25 years ago someone telling music graduates “streaming is the future of music distribution” would have received the same reaction.

fantasizr

those two lines in the speech with audience boo/applause breaks are perfectly timed.

sharts

AI has been the “next industrial revolution” since the 70’s and 80’s. We’ll have a few more RoboCop movies and then things will be as they always are after hype cycles

perarneng

Governments and companies are so bad at selling AI to the population.The reason is the elephant in the room. Everyone or at least most understand the consequences. You can't sit and be amazed at the speed an AI does tasks and not be able to extrapolate what that would mean for jobs.

olivierestsage

Is the practice on this site now to flag anything critical of AI...?

aeciorc

I wonder how many bright people are choosing not to pursue higher education due to the current message around AI, and what the long-term consequences will be.

deferredgrant

A commencement audience is a rough place to sell AI inevitability. Graduates are the people most likely to feel the entry-level job risk first.

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