Another article for free (but seriously subscribe to 404 they do great work) https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/graduation-speaker-booed-ai
She’s a Real Estate VP. Out of touch by default.
Who chose a real estate VP for commencement speaker in the first place. That’s the peraon we should be calling out of touch.
I mean it’s UCF. “Out of touch” would be an improvement over their normal
probably the University dean, fanboy . like how they chose GENOCIDAL supporting SEINFELD for darthmouth commencment, and butke for another college.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/graduation-speaker-booed-ai for an article you can actually read.
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.
She gets booed, regroups, then says “two years ago AI wasn’t a part of our lives” and then gets cheered for it 🤣
Yeah but she doesn’t realize that the people are cheering because they miss those days
She definitely did lol watch the full video, she’s totally surprised.
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.
Thanks I just assumed everyone on Lemmy donates to 404. Someone else posted the video in this community too. Pretty hilarious.
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”.
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.
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.
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.)
And not only that, the only way life got better was by labour unions and regular people demanding a better life
it did have a value in the end, but LLM only just fucks over people and pollutes the planet more aggressively.
It depends on whether they are named daryl or darryl
Your echo chamber told you something, and you failed to verify that info. You’re no better than the “LLMbeciles”.
The thing is, that broadly these sorts of hiccups happen all the time, but every time one of them escalates to ‘meme’ status, they can institute covering for it in pretty short order.
When you use them routinely, you see them do the hiccups regularly on random things you weren’t expecting, but if one of those hiccups goes viral, then it stops working.
I managed to get in barely in time to see the seahorse emoji before the meme became self-defeating.
The viral instances only work very briefly to illustrate a behavior, as very well known specific examples will get covered. In your case, at one point suddenly all the LLMs were really good at knowing the letters in strawberry, but you ask about other words they would fall over because they only had that specific thing there. By now, I suspect most have implemented a scheme to ensure a more appropriate mechanism handles counting letters in a word, to spare the embarassment.
Seriously? The strawberry thing is well-documented (and personally tested). But of course the people who make the systems don’t ever change them to fix these humiliating errors.
This is the best you can do to defend your slop machines? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
“LLM can too count the Rs in Strawberry (now)!” isn’t the flex you seem to think it is, Sparky.
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.
Problem is the targe is not the competent experts, but the managers of the competent experts, who have basically eternally been inherently skeptical of those experts and looking for the flimsiest hope to discard them.
Many of the best and most important people let themselves be subordinate to some idiots.
Not pertinent to AI, but just had one of these ‘leaders’ laying out how some project was going to go and why we didn’t even need to bother with any contingencies and that folks would be wasting their time. Every one with a whiff of experience knows these projects don’t go as described 90% of the time, and prepping the usual contingencies is less than an hour as long as you just plan to do it in advance. However, the very expensive partner service says they have it in hand, and despite this same partner boffing the last 6 of these in a row, the idiot still has absolute confidence in them…
In short, these guys get put in charge and are idiots and folks let them stay “in charge” because they don’t have the will to fight it.
I got a radical idea they are already usless
Learning is never useless or worthless. Education is not a jobs training program.
Which is why I studied Philosophy. Sure, a degree like that doesn’t tie in to a 150k/yr job at daddy’s company quite like a degree business management might (no shade), but I feel like the skills it gave me are suited to just about everything I do. I’ve spent time in tech, time in the entertainment industry, and time in retail. If anyone is interested in philosophy, I encourage you to pursue it. The way I see it, you have to make your own way in the world anyway you might as well equip yourself with reading, writing, and reasoning skills by pondering age old, potentially unanswerable questions and worry about specializing later.
Just don’t Socratease your coworkers. HR might not like that!
Someone needs to tell universities this. And students, for that matter.
They’re saying degrees are useless. Not learning. They’re two different things.
Except they are categorically not useless? I’d still be stuck in fuckstick nowhere if they were. So would many others. Thats anecdotal and doesn’t count, though.
If someone is able to pass enough classes to get a degree without learning anything thats a them problem.
Now, if one wants to call degrees a poor value proposition?
Also wrong. Just because the US hasn’t had a coherent fiscal policy since before Reagan and has allowed tuition to skyrocket while milking the students for all they’re worth still doesn’t make the degree useless.
Learning is not useless. If someone doesn’t learn anything in 4 years and accepts that degree? They’re at fault.
If the argument is that degrees are useless because they don’t guarantee employment you can find my response at the top of this comment chain.
WHY DO I HAVE TO CONVINCE PEOPLE HIGHER LEARNING IS AN ADMIRABLE PURSUIT REGARDLESS OF THE JOB PROSPECTS
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.
Radio to television is generous, IMO. LLMs aren’t a path to AGI or even particularly useful to most people.
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.
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.
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.
If I had to guess, too many government agencies are probably bought by big tech. Otherwise, they wouldn’t let that neglect of privacy fly at such a scale. I suppose the question is when people will get sick enough of it that it results in a change.
most of eu/usa is trying to give access to palantir to private info, Uk with NHS, and palantir trying to get SSN/flock cameras, or other.
The EU also seems to be trying to copy the UK Online Safety Act: https://gitlab.opencode.de/bmi/eudi-wallet/wallet-development-documentation-public/-/work_items/13
Once again, LLMs have to prove useful for something first. I wager they’re actually costing companies in the long run. Nothing about a net loss is revolutionary.
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.
for a in {1..20}; do shuf -i 1-1200 -n 1;doneA randomization function is expected to return a random result and works consistently.
Yeah, I was just playing around being annoyingly pedantic. I agree with your original statement, for what that’s worth.
And to have them be useful is a lot of setup and fuck around, needing to be done by someone experienced and not given to idiots to use for anything requiring reliability or rich substance.
I’d say they’re like going from 3.1 to 95, but web versions which most people use are pretty useless for non-basic things and basic things it’s usually faster to do yourself.
It’s just how algorithmic prediction is.
AI (specifically the LLMs for which “hyper scale” datacenters are being built) are by good for summarizing large volumes of text down into a few points with reasonable accuracy.
This makes them good for pouring over all the data you’re being forced to store in the cloud, including your conversations, financials, political donation receipts, and that patent you’re preparing to file for your million-dollar idea that just might work. Please be sure to associate all your accounts with your verified ID or they will be subject to deletion and your name will be automatically listed on the suspected terrorist and pedophile watch lists.
Continue to participate in capitalism. We demand it.
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.
I loved Kozmo, had a few friends who rode for Kozmo in Boston
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!!
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.”
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.
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.
Which is frankly bizarre. You can definitely run an AI to assist with coding locally for a lot less than hiring a coder for even a month. So if they can’t accomplish that without blowing the budget then there is no hope for them.
They are betting on it VERY hard with massive data centers though.
I see not only an era of scamming that will break basic human trust systems but the reliance on it will riddle previously methodical fields like medicine, design and law with a barrage of flaws and falsehoods no one will check until they cause failures.
Not just jobs, but:
- Scammers that make convincing fakes
- Knock-offs that get your views before you realize that it’s hollow slop instead of what you were expecting for
- Flooding the field of creative content with hollow stuff devoid of actual creative intent, mistaking verbosity and detail for quality creative content.
- Exploiting small communities that either let big tech walk over them in general, or they just have to bribe a few city managers at pretty modest prices.
I suppose the scammers are about the only arguably common downside between the AI boom and the dot-com boom, but it was at the time less compelling because it was such an ‘alien’ medium that people weren’t trusted, whereas AI is corrupting a familiar medium with even more scam than people are used to.
I thought the background was baked beans
This is Lemmy, after all.
The video is on YouTube (for now).
Here’s her being introduced (to listen to the entire speech), and here’s the sequence the article is about at around 1:21:10.
She is an awful public speaker.
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
Those earrings are really distracting. What are those diamonds and pearls…at a commencement?
or the rock on here bony arse finger. You could drill for oil with that thing. she is so gross
heh. they turned the comments off on the youtube vid. can’t imagine why.
The kids are alright.
Gotta know your audience…
not when you got a pipe connected to your anus just so you can breath in your own farts. She been to the island no doubt
That was such a “don’t you have phones” moment.
Amazing how horribly out of touch these folks are.
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.
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.
