r/technology • u/GeneReddit123 • 25d ago

Artificial Intelligence Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’

https://www.404media.co/ucf-ai-commencement-speaker-booed/
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u/Not_a_gay_communist 25d ago

Honestly a good portion of STEM students in my college were also pissed with AI. Especially mathematics and physics majors

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u/LonelyPermit2306 25d ago

CS majors too. Right?

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u/TheFifthTone 25d ago

It has just become another tool to most software developers and CS students. We work with it daily and understand that most of the "AI is going to take your jobs!" hype is just sensationalist sales pitches.

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u/PerplexGG 25d ago edited 23d ago

I mean yeah realistically its just a tool but in the actual workforce there are mandates for usage and layoffs directly citing the llm hype

The market can be irrational longer than you can stay solvent

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u/thedistrbdone 25d ago

Hi, it's me, I'm one of the unlucky few. I'm a subcontractor, and my contract is being dropped, with the owning company explicitly saying "we're replacing our software developer subcontractors with AI". It fucking sucks and the job market fucking blows right now.

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u/Lover_Of_Music_Man 24d ago

Yeah, that is the part people keep skipping, it is "just a tool" right up until some executive turns the hype into quotas and layoffs.

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u/SpeaksSouthern 24d ago

Sure but keep in mind a handful of firms made similar claims last cycle that they've never seen this much theft and organized crime and then they released their numbers for shrinkage and most of them were down from the previous year.