If you enjoy watching old people fail to read the room, watch somebody try to tell students that Generative AI is the next industrial revolution:

[meuwese@mastodon.social]

@lettosprey @christianrickert @GossiTheDog really not everywhere. In some places the more vocal supporters are senior and the critics skew younger... seniors can use a tool that poorly replicates what they've done a thousand times... juniors feel lost and abandoned.

[christianrickert@23.social]

@meuwese @lettosprey @GossiTheDog

Usefulness of AI depends on the use case:
People who understand both their problem and AI limitations may use it to their advantage.
People who neither understand their problem nor AI limitations sell snake oil.

[jti42@infosec.exchange]

@GossiTheDog Just as a practical observation:

• I'm not sure if I would go as a far a "next industrial revolution", maybe tone it down 2 notches. It's a graduation speech so subtract 2 notches mentally anyway, right?
• However: Those people in the audience will, if they want it or not, be impacted by it for the better part of a decade, their first decade in the industry.

• Thus, they better get knowledgeable about it and prepare to weather that storm that is coming at them and make the best out of whatever it'll be. Negating or just booing it is not exactly the winning strategy in context of reality I'm afraid here. And I'd hope their degree programs did a good job at preparing them.

• No rotten tomatoes, eggs etc were applied, so all good I guess, eh?

[mikemccaffrey@pdx.social]

@jti42 @GossiTheDog They sound plenty knowledgeable to me about the bullshit that tech capitalists are trying to get away with in their belligerent attack on workers, the planet, and society as a whole.

[atomiclavender@icedoatmilk.coffee]

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social that's my alma mater!!!! (also keep in mind this ceremony was specifically for the college of arts and humanities)

[acdha@code4lib.social]

@jti42 @GossiTheDog I think it's more that they've spent the last couple of years hearing the leaders of most of the places they're hoping to get jobs at talking about layoffs and not hiring entry-level positions because of AI. Whether or not something is productive for the larger economy or even their personal proficiency levels, you're not going to get cheers from people who are personally facing tougher odds for getting what will be worse jobs.

[toxic_flange@infosec.exchange]

@GossiTheDog Up to that point, earlier on she was singing the praises of Jeff Bezos and others, and holding him up as an example of something good, "of course he was valedictorian of his high school class!" etc etc..

[amcooper@toot.cat]

@GossiTheDog what school is this? ETA oh nm it’s UCF

[jdlh@mstdn.ca]

For more on this moment, see report at https://www.404media.co/ucf-ai-commencement-speaker-booed/ . Cc @GossiTheDog

[lordcaramac@discordian.social]

@GossiTheDog I keep telling everyone that the Industrial Age is ending because we have damaged the biosphere and depleted the resources.

[rich@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@GossiTheDog why old people? - seems ageist

[ronago@mastodon.social]

@GossiTheDog I'm always surprised by how supportive educational institutions are towards AI. I had expected them to be some of the most vocal critics.

[croyle@wandering.shop]

@GossiTheDog I know multiple people exactly like this woman, and FWIW, most of them are old.

I'm old too, but I'm with the noisy grads.

[babble_endanger@freeradical.zone]

@GossiTheDog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nULp0pGKCS8

Found it lol

[cppguy@infosec.space]

@GossiTheDog

"Old"? Sir, you wound me.

[jeantranscene@mastodon.social]

@GossiTheDog Just as with the industrial revolution, many will loose their jobs but many job categories will be created. The professional landscape will look very different in a most categories in 10 years from now and there are real opportunities to be acted upon right now. Adaptability is key here because It's not going to stop because people are afraid (with reason). If it gives an advantage to those weilding it, it will stick. All in all businesswise a whole lot will remain exactly the same.

[bipolaron@scholar.social]

@GossiTheDog after this clip she says "I guess we've got a very bipolar topic here"

I love that she apparently thought the cheers were because "AI is now a factor in our lives" rather than "remember how great it was a few years ago?"

https://www.youtube.com/live/zwYkHS8jvSE?si=BlKlPqrvvKx8ww3X&t=4869

She goes on to get booed a few more times by talking about how great it is that "AI capabilities are in the palm of our hand" and I guess this is what happens when chatgpt writes your speech and you forget how to adlib.

[europlus@social.europlus.zone]

@GossiTheDog @jwz and humanities students, at that!

[magnetic_tape@infosec.exchange]

@GossiTheDog
They cut just before she was booed again

[f4grx@chaos.social]

@christianrickert @GossiTheDog I also remark that old people at the end of their careers are the most addict about this shit. It tells something.