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The last industrial revolution turned farmers into factory drones. This one will turn tech workers into homeless gig slaves.
to homeless gig slaves.
any alternatives?
And the speech was given to graduating students from the College of Arts and Humanities and the School of Communication and Media.
Possibly the worst audience to stand in front of and praise the 'revolution' of AI
How can she be surprised? "Hey, here is this thing we're building that we hope makes 90% of you obsolete!", sounds like a great perspective for the future.
It's not gonna make them obsolete. It's gonna keep piling on technical debt from bad practices of which it's entirely unaware (not that it's ever "aware" of anything) while tricking dumb upper management, C-suite, and investors into thinking that it can render so many people obsolete, before it all crashes. "Pride comes before the fall."
Honestly, she isn’t wrong.
However, the Industrial Revolution was a step forward, the AI revolution is most likely a great filter event. Industrialized Stupidity at Scale; Buliding giant data centers and turbo-charging climate change so some billionaires can race to see who can be the first trillionaire
For the working class, the industrial revolution was not a step forward. It took a lot of time, hard union work and political regulation to wrangle the beast that was the industrial revolution.
And nothing of was accomplished was done by asking nicely.
here's a direct link to youtube of the commencement, queued up to the speech in question.
Even before the AI topic the speech was already brain dead stupid
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No.
Smart kids
She really read the room wrong on this one!
I love that she was genuinely baffled. Hope it makes her reexamine her thoughts on AI.
how is this worth a post?
my cat says she wants another snack
Have a link? I'm more likely to click than this article.
Students fail to make the is/ought distinction.
Maybe they're booing adults who fail to understand the can/will distinction.
