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College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos

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Re: College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos

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AI Bros are spending too much good will being obnoxious about fancy approximation algorithms, when their purpose in real AI will be lizard brain/reflex type actions.

The next AI winter can't happen soon enough. (Note each past AI winter did give us new tools just like this one will, it's just a shame that it'll be an excuse to worsen customer support)

Re: College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos

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The kids are alright.

Every one of these posts about boos at commencement speeches has one of these comments near the bottom. I feel like I’m failing some pop culture quiz. What does this mean?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kids_Are_Alright_(song)

Re: College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos

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The kids are alright.

Every one of these posts about boos at commencement speeches has one of these comments near the bottom. I feel like I’m failing some pop culture quiz. What does this mean?

AI is largely unpopular outside of the tech & business worlds. Most laypeople see it as falling on a spectrum between unwanted and annoying (google getting worse, AI chatbots proliferating in every app and site) to actively harmful (jobs being replaced by ai).

The fact that comments agreeing with this sentiment get downvoted here isn't a huge surprise, hn is firmly inside the tech/business world.

Re: College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every one of these posts about boos at commencement speeches has one of these comments near the bottom. I feel like I’m failing some pop culture quiz. What does this mean?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kids_Are_Alright_(song)

in contrast with:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kids_Aren%27t_Alright

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