"The question is not whether AI will shape the world. It will," Schmidt said. "The question is whether you will have shaped artificial intelligence."

The problem with Schmidt's perspective, and to some degree that of the linked article itself, is that they take an "AI" future for granted. Like it's a given that we need to adapt to whatever the tech giants put before us.

But the thing is, the only place where (the success of) "AI" is necessary — that's in those companies' projected earnings. They sunk billions into a technology that could be a big deal in certain number crunching research fields, but to recoup the investment they marketed the product as an everything assistant for everybody.

The corporations pushing "AI" into personal computers, into workspaces, into public governance; they're huge, but they're hardly infallible. They may wish, as in "bet their savings", that this utopian tech dream will work out better than the metaverse ...but that's all it is.

They're just trying to talk their ROI into existence. We need to counter that talk, and that future. It's ours to decide over.

Shame these kids got an advertisement instead of a commencement speech.

A billionaire praising AI as the next big thing doesn't belong at a graduation ceremony.

Read the room, dickhead.

It's not often the room is quite this easy to read.

AI aside, this was incredibly disrespectful to the graduates. He basically stole the ceremony to pitch his business. These people have no shame.

Glad he’s getting booed. In this clip he’s saying things that are potentially true about AI. The biggest problem though is that assholes like him will be the ones designing AI. They want to own the source of all information to shape the world as they wish it to be.

They already own the media, now their AI will be what they want it to be, say what they want it to say.

Kids are SO Ungrateful! WHY can't they just APPRECIATE the Epstein Class for ELIMINATING their Job Prospects like GOOD SEXY Kids?

-Rich People!

I'm rather proud of humanity here.

A narcissist with psychopathic tendencies promotes his next bullshit way of him getting richer, and people just showed him what they think of it

Good

Holy fuck. It’s their big day, and he uses it to pitch his fucking shitty fucking products. Read the room dumbarse

Usually they also like to tell you it's the new industrial revolution. Then you look at the industrial revolution and see 100 years of poverty, living in slums, child labor, ridiculous working hours and protesting the elites.

Give people affordable healthcare

-No

Give people affordable homes

-No

Give people liveable income

-No

Give people a product marketed as pseudo-beneficial to humanity, while making yourself richer.

-Hell yesss

yeah at UofA of all places, a place that has quite a big CS department. these kids are graduating in hopes of getting jobs that simply don't exist for them. they have every right to boo him.

I went to high school in Tucson and would routinely go to the UofA for LAN Parties. They also had an awesome Arcade on campus. UofA is the last place to go gloating about AI taking jobs.

It would have been more satisfying if they rushed the stage to rip the fucker apart then just rioted. But I guess we’re not quite there yet.

Love to see it. I'm not usually proud of the younger generation(s), but this is beautiful.

The kids are alright.

If they'd just let the graphics card bubble pop with crypto, by now we'd be in the recovery stage and regulating digital securities.

But that would require admitting to irrationality in the financial system and putting in the work to fix it, which would be mildly embarrassing. So instead, the bourgeoisie have chosen the maximally embarrassing thing of being delusional about a crummy computer program.

And the bubble is now so big, the pop won't be a normal boom-bust. I half suspect its gonna end the dollar as reserve currency.

He has a very punchable, condescending face.

I’m not threatening, simply observing.

Platonic ideal of a punchable face.

"find a way to say yes"

this motherfucker.

another recent commencement speaker (in Florida) also getting booed for praising "AI" can be seen on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCNgENc_0N0

but oddly this Eric Schmidt video isn't on there, afaict? 🤔

We should bring back throwing rotten fruit and vegetables at people like this. Maybe the pillory too while we're at it.

The annoying thing is that generative AI actually has real, positive applications for humanity.

Unfortunately, dickheads like Schmidt have applied it to the things it's least good at because it's the most likely to enslave the populace by denying them of jobs and make the most money.

Funny to watch how red he gets throughout the video.

Because he's a motherfucker.

Face thicker than the Great Wall of China. This speech is basically a threat.

Really looking forward to more crowds booing and hissing at billionaires selling slop, you don't see enough crowds hissing at rapist fuck face pieces of shit

I really need to go get a proper set of encyclopedias for when we own nothing and the internet is just filtered monitored crap not worth engaging in.

"Gemini, write me a graduation speech how AI will replace their potential job prospects!"

What I find worry some is that they know damn well that nobody wants this “future”. And yet they keep trying to push this narrative over and over again.

They have shitloads of money invested, I get that they want to see this take off so they can see some returns.

But they just blatantly want to talk past the environmental impact this has, the destruction of culture and society this will bring.

I’m really starting to feel like at some point it’s not gonna be speeches trying to promote this filth but just blatant implementation in society.

“Use your tokens and participate or starve.”

God, this makes me so damn happy. Wonderful stuff.

Butlerian Jihad When?