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[–] Reality_Suit@lemmy.world 115 points 1 week ago (1 children)

She's a Real Estate VP. Out of touch by default.

[–] Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Who chose a real estate VP for commencement speaker in the first place. That's the peraon we should be calling out of touch.

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 19 points 1 week ago

I mean it's UCF. "Out of touch" would be an improvement over their normal

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's Florida, her company probably donated a ton to MAGA.

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 11 points 1 week ago

probably the University dean, fanboy . like how they chose GENOCIDAL supporting SEINFELD for darthmouth commencment, and butke for another college.

[–] november@piefed.blahaj.zone 90 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] cloudy1999@sh.itjust.works 82 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I had to watch the video. She looks so confused when they start booing. She tries laughing it off, says something else to tout AI and is booed again. Completely tone deaf.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 73 points 1 week ago (1 children)

She gets booed, regroups, then says "two years ago AI wasn't a part of our lives" and then gets cheered for it 🤣

[–] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah but she doesn't realize that the people are cheering because they miss those days

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 7 points 1 week ago

She definitely did lol watch the full video, she's totally surprised.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 19 points 1 week ago

Given the joyful Industrial Revolution comparison, we’re wondering whether the real estate VP is familiar with the history of the term “Dickensian.”

They are, and have been rapidly re-creating it.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 10 points 1 week ago

Thanks I just assumed everyone on Lemmy donates to 404. Someone else posted the video in this community too. Pretty hilarious.

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 64 points 1 week ago (14 children)

Industrial Revolution: New machines almost instantly made factory owners 1000 to 10000 times wealthier.

LLMbeciles: New machines can't count the 'r's in "strawberry".

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

New machines can't count the 'r's in "strawberry".

No, they can! They just first need to have a system prompt instructing them to generate and run a python script to do it.

And yet, it's us meatbags being called inefficient.

[–] vividspecter@aussie.zone 29 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Also, the industrial revolution fucked over a lot of people during the transition period so even if it was an accurate comparison it's rather callous to celebrate it.

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 14 points 1 week ago

This is precisely why I am suspicious of any and all "disruptive" technologies.

If this technology is so disruptive that it will generate unparalleled wealth for society, then that's enough wealth that you can afford to keep paying the people about to get displaced and their livelihood destroyed. Don't want to do this? Fuck your "disruption".

(And if it's like LLMs, it won't be positively disruptive in any light. It's just a Ponzi scheme for the highest stakes ever.)

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

And not only that, the only way life got better was by labour unions and regular people demanding a better life

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe 54 points 1 week ago (1 children)

She tried to justify AI by citing the success of the Internet? The Internet was not created for the express purpose of replacing workers.

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[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The number of competent experts who are impressed by an LLM wielded in their specified field, is as vanishingly infinitesimal as legitimate and justifiable invocations of the term ‘AI’.

Those who have expressed the greatest enthusiasm for ‘AI’ are typically the farthest removed from actual, nuanced comprehension.

It’s a grift economy built on statistically luke-warm, vibe lobotomised corpses.

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (6 children)
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[–] Droopy@programming.dev 32 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Shorter Version Gloria Caulfield Booed at UCF Graduation Speech the comments are on fire.
youtubeUser - "Watching this was so cathartic you have no idea"

another User - "I hate when people compare AI to the birth of the internet era and cellphones. Those eras did not have anywhere near the same level of job loss implications and the threat of eradicating as many junior positions as AI does. When boomers make this kind of comparison, it comes off as so disconnected and tone deaf. I hope I'm wrong about AI and that it actually creates massive new industries for entry level workers, but I don't see that happening anytime soon. Not in my lifetime at least. We're about to see mass homogenization of culture and entertainment, significant privacy concerns, mass surveillance, scams, and an absolute gutting of entry level jobs; this is already beginning to happen. I just don't trust corporations and business owners to not squeeze every last cent out of AI agents and only hire employees as a last resort. That's their end game and they don't even hide it at all."

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I wish more people would understand that LLMs are "taking" extremely few jobs away. The "chatbots can do a real job" narrative is just there to bump up the stock prices.

A real AI would incur massive job loss, but the job losses we're seeing now being blamed on AI are really just the same normal oligarchal greed at work.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Right now the ai companies are highly substadising their products. They announced recently that it actually costs them more than it does to pay a human engineer to write the same code.

That means it's just a trap. They are trying to get companies to go all in so they will be dependent on them when the engineers are gone and they will raise the price significantly.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe 31 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Her reaction was shock that they weren't totally on board with being excited about their primary competition in the job market.

Who booked this clueless tool?

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't even consider LLMs that. I just consider them a massive waster of power and water that inherently degrade everything they touch and have terrible impacts on cognitive and behavioral health.

I'm not worried that AI is gonna take my job, not in a thousand years, what I'm worried about is that AI is going to BURN THIS PLANET on top of being a constant daily annoyance.

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[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I thought the background was baked beans

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[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Yeah, it's definitely the next Dot Com bubble. It'll eventually be about as evolutionary as the transition from Radio to Television, but there's gonna be a major course correction first.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 52 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Radio to television is generous, IMO. LLMs aren't a path to AGI or even particularly useful to most people.

[–] RustyShackleford@piefed.social 14 points 1 week ago

I believe that’s the point for proponents of AI: compare it to something that was once considered amazing, hoping you’ll fail to realize that it’s like comparing apples to oranges.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Telegraph was the big one, that shortened broadcast communication times from weeks to a couple days. (Receiving the news telegram -> publishing and distributing the newspaper). News ticker, teletype, and eventually, telephone were all evolutionary ideas: they relied on the same newspaper for broad dissemination.

Radio was the next revolution, shortening news distribution from a couple days to a couple hours, bypassing the newspaper and going directly to the public. TV was a relatively small evolution of radio. It didn't increase the speed or breadth of distribution; it only expanded the scope of what was distributed.

The internet was a big revolution. Cloud computing was another evolutionary idea. AI is a rather small evolutionary take off from that.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

We are due for a course correction on Cloud Computing and Storage. Too many companies trust their most intimate secrets to Microsoft, Google, and Amazon; not to mention CloudFlare.

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[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Any machine or algorithm that cannot consistently produce the same results from the same input is fucking garbage and that is LLM in a nutshell. Garbage.

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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

“Pets.com, Webvan, Boo.com, eToys, and Kozmo will bravely lead us into the next Industrial Revolution”

Yeah that does sound dumb.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 8 points 1 week ago

At least the internet had broad utility, just wasn't ready in 1999 to support e-commerce on that scale. It is now. I can't imagine a future where LLMs are similar. Even a theoretically perfect LLM is not like, actually knowledgeable.

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[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Look, it'll put all your searches right there at the top in one roughly half-correct paragraph! All it takes is a quindecupling of energy usage and water usage in your community! Get some perspective!!

[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)
[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

She is an awful public speaker.

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago

She really is. The script is clearly terrible but also she is an awful public speaker. What a dreadful thing to have at your graduation

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 22 points 1 week ago

The kids are alright.

[–] StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

heh. they turned the comments off on the youtube vid. can't imagine why.

[–] inari@piefed.zip 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Gotta know your audience...

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[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That was such a "don't you have phones" moment.

Amazing how horribly out of touch these folks are.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe 13 points 1 week ago

This is like the groom on his wedding night, going on and on about how fuckable all the Bridesmaids looked, and then being shocked that his bride is pissed off at him.

[–] zeroConnection@programming.dev 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Love it how she started looking around when everyone started booing her, like "hey someone tell me what's going on", but there was no Claude around to explain it to her.

That's what happens when you surrender your critical thinking to AI.

I bet the delusional cunt spent the rest of her afternoon asking AI what happened and getting consoled by it.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I remember watching Bill Clinton speak at UCF. He called the school the military simulation capital of US academics.

The school's large population of future debt slaves in the audience (getting worthless degrees in Psychology or Business) didn't understand.

I found it elucidating, being a student of Engineering. I studied with fellow students working in Research Park working on computer vision algorithms, teaching missiles how to be more effective at bombing schools and hospitals abroad. They badly needed the money to pay for the college education.

Few students at UCF were aware of their own school's involvement in the military industrial complex. Clinton was very aware.

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