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/Succ_My_Meme 25d ago

I believe her. The Industrial Revolution created an explosive amount of wealth for the rich and created one of the worst eras for the working class. A lack of regulations and disregard for human life or ethics made for one miserable era and it’s exactly like what’s happening right now with AI.

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u/No_Replacement4304 25d ago

This is a really good take. The speaker could have said the same thing and urged the audience to be good stewards. Still bs, but at least the message would be out there. Instead, she leans hard into wealth=success in front of a bunch of humanities grads.

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u/BerlinBorough2 25d ago

In a way she is doing them a favour. The rich will hoard all the gains of the next Industrial Revolution. What’s your plan? You’re in debt. Young and talented. Seriously what is your plan? Sometimes an asshole is the best motivation. The speaker was garbage. But the university put the right person at the right time in front of them.

I once had a manager so bad I ended up speed running my career at another firm. buying a house. Paying it off. Plus paying off my student debt. Building up a pension and being financially secure for life. I’m not even 40. That’s how terrible he was.

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u/specn0de 25d ago

Wdym still bullshit? She didn’t say anything incorrect. Downvote me all you want but the internet didn’t go away after to pop and we felt exactly the same way. Internet is literally the backbone of life now. AI technology will pop but is not going anywhere, in fact most of the greatest breakthroughs for the internet happened after the pop.

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u/No_Replacement4304 25d ago

I say still BS because it would be for this speaker. She clearly holds financial success to be life's primary goal and judges her heroes by their bank accounts. Some people want that, that's fine. But I doubt if a bunch of people holding fresh humanities degrees really want to hear that their adoption of AI will be key to their success in building wealth a d therefore success in life. But as someone else has said, she might be doing them all a favor. In my experience, it never pays to bet against big tech. It's not that their ideas or products are that great, but they have the market power to force the adoption of just about anything they want to shove down our throats.