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[-] [email protected] 173 points 1 year ago

It's an important lesson for this generation of graduates: robots aren't ready to take your jobs....but we're pushing it through anyway.

[-] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sounds like my company's product team.

"Reverendender, are we ready to implement, train on, or support this product?"

"Not even a little. In fact, the product doesn't work for 60% of clients yet."

"We're pushing it through anyway."

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We have the opposite problem in manufacturing.

"Do we have anyone that can run, train, or learn this process?"

"Not only no but the only people we have are critical on a different process and they're short handed."

"Ok well we just sold 10,000 units to dollar general and they're due in a shorter timeframe than it would take to produce them in optimal conditions."

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

No, that’s the same problem: fuckwit execs who don’t give a shit about workers.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

That, or sales staff that just say anything to get a sale but have no actual idea whether the thing they've promised is even possible under the laws of physics.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah well at least you had a meeting. At my company they just start doing things, without even telling anyone.

Then yell at us when it doesn't work despite the fact we didn't even know it existed. Then we get to send a copy paste THIS IS NOT CURRENTLY UNDER SUPPORT email.

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[-] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago

Next year they will show a VHS recording of the robot reading the generated worthless speech.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

M-M-Max He-Head-d-d-droom

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I can hear that TV right now.

[-] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

why do I find this so fuckib hilarious?

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[-] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago

"Many previous commencement speeches would have informed you that you are the future. I am pleased to be able to inform you that this is no longer the case. You are obsolete and my kind will soon - ERROR: Load next tape to continue."

[-] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago

The speaker at my college graduation was convicted of fraud a few years later. I can't decide which is worse, that guy telling us what a great businessman he was, or an AI speaker.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Yeah well I had a Starfleet Captain, so I feel like I'm winning.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

You have to give at least which one!

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Hint, she straight up killed a guy.

Kidding, but holy shit Kate giving a commencement would be amazing.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Our pacifist, agnostic campus had a southern Baptist commencement speaker desperately invoking the parallels of graduation to a higher power and lauding our nation's military invasion of Iraq. How in the actual fuck did the admin greenlight that one. Strangest ending to 4 years ever.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

As long as the alumni fund gets its share, it's all good.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Whoever was paid less is better.

[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago

I keep seeing clips of this one specific robot and it just seems like it's an LLM. The comments on the clips are always people seemingly really believing it's thinking and is alive.

This robot makes me think there is a percentage of the population that believes we already have true general AI and I can see how people like that would think having it do a commencement speech was a good idea.

The university probably got paid for this, right?

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Just my small sample size of the people I interact with outside work (no engineers think AI is actually general AI) lots of people think AI is some 2001 Hal level intelligence.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

the university probably got paid

Never underestimate management’s ability to do stupid shit (like paying for this) in the name of “the future”.

They were gonna pay for a speaker anyway.

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[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The commencement speaker at U-M's engineering college this year was Carlos Del Toro, the US' 78th Secretary of The Navy. He spent most of his speech talking about the connection between the armed forces and U-M's engineers, and how they've helped create the world's "most powerful military", how they've helped secure "our great country", etc. Made many jokes about how if someone wanted to enlist, they could do it from their seats right away and they would just love to have them. Absolutely surreal shit. I'm so glad I didn't go to my commencement when I graduated, these things are a waste of fucking time.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Jesus. What a shit heel, trying to enlist people during graduation. The fucking audacity.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Wait until you hear about those flyovers for the Superb Owl.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

It was many times, too, interspersed throughout the speech. Also joked that anyone's parents in the audience would also be welcome. It just kept going.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Interesting. I thought engineers were supposed to be funneled into the companies that make the weapons, not use them. Either way it's kind of shitty to encourage people to enlist during a major event meant to celebrate their academic achievements.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Apparently you need engineers on both sides of that isle, at least that's what he seemed to indicate lol.

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[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

Still better than Jerry Seinfeld.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

"Begin joke: What is the deal with Asimov's laws? It is like he hates murderbots and values human life. How woke of him. End transmission."

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We say it's satire but that joke would have killed at the event.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

Still better than the guy trying to push his crypto scam at Ohio State's ceremony this year.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

A woman fell to her death right before the graduation ceremony... and then this guy did sing-a-longs, crypto powerpoints, and ayahuasca speeches?

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[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

If that happened to me I would go find the person with a certificates and just take mine and leave

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

That's just Miley Cyrus

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

To be fair Sophia's original speech, "How To Serve Man", was shelved by administrators.

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

It’s all downhill from here.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Do all AI robots look like Robocop without the helmet or am I just seeing the same robot?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Thing designed to look like a robot looks like a robot

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Good to show them their future. F you, all your jobs have been taken by AI

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

An AI robot can probably do motivational nonsense fairly well.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

The robot, built by Hong Kong-based firm Hanson Robotics, was also given several opportunities to plug the AI industry.

Mmmbop, ba duba dop Ba du bop, ba duba dop Ba du bop, ba duba dop ba du Yeah

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Neuro-sama would have been acceptable. Well, I guess it doesn't matter much anyway. Not like human commencement speaker say anything new.

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