The kids are alright

His face is much redder by the time he finished the speech.

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

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.

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

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

Butlerian Jihad When?

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

How much of this is a rejection of Schmidt or his personal brand of AI and how much is a rejection of the future this technology is leading us into?

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

-Rich People!

The kids are alright.

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

"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.

Because he's a motherfucker.

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.

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

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.

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.

they need more fodder to throw at the AI slop industry to stave off the burst, thats what they are saying.

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.