It's an important lesson for this generation of graduates: robots aren't ready to take your jobs....but we're pushing it through anyway.
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Sounds like my company's product team.
"Reverendender, are we ready to implement, train on, or support this product?"
"Not even a little. In fact, the product doesn't work for 60% of clients yet."
"We're pushing it through anyway."
We have the opposite problem in manufacturing.
"Do we have anyone that can run, train, or learn this process?"
"Not only no but the only people we have are critical on a different process and they're short handed."
"Ok well we just sold 10,000 units to dollar general and they're due in a shorter timeframe than it would take to produce them in optimal conditions."
No, that’s the same problem: fuckwit execs who don’t give a shit about workers.
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Next year they will show a VHS recording of the robot reading the generated worthless speech.
M-M-Max He-Head-d-d-droom
Big TV being wheeled in!
I can hear that TV right now.
"Many previous commencement speeches would have informed you that you are the future. I am pleased to be able to inform you that this is no longer the case. You are obsolete and my kind will soon - ERROR: Load next tape to continue."
The speaker at my college graduation was convicted of fraud a few years later. I can't decide which is worse, that guy telling us what a great businessman he was, or an AI speaker.
Our pacifist, agnostic campus had a southern Baptist commencement speaker desperately invoking the parallels of graduation to a higher power and lauding our nation's military invasion of Iraq. How in the actual fuck did the admin greenlight that one. Strangest ending to 4 years ever.
As long as the alumni fund gets its share, it's all good.
Whoever was paid less is better.
I keep seeing clips of this one specific robot and it just seems like it's an LLM. The comments on the clips are always people seemingly really believing it's thinking and is alive.
This robot makes me think there is a percentage of the population that believes we already have true general AI and I can see how people like that would think having it do a commencement speech was a good idea.
The university probably got paid for this, right?
Just my small sample size of the people I interact with outside work (no engineers think AI is actually general AI) lots of people think AI is some 2001 Hal level intelligence.
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the university probably got paid
Never underestimate management’s ability to do stupid shit (like paying for this) in the name of “the future”.
They were gonna pay for a speaker anyway.
if you know how they work llms are obviously not general ai.
but people are really bad at understanding how technology works especially with intangible stuff like computer programs.
scifi has covered ai for years, and now there is software that can mostly convincingly generate sentences.
people that understand both, see the very different approaches.
but people that don't only see the almost convincing results.
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The commencement speaker at U-M's engineering college this year was Carlos Del Toro, the US' 78th Secretary of The Navy. He spent most of his speech talking about the connection between the armed forces and U-M's engineers, and how they've helped create the world's "most powerful military", how they've helped secure "our great country", etc. Made many jokes about how if someone wanted to enlist, they could do it from their seats right away and they would just love to have them. Absolutely surreal shit. I'm so glad I didn't go to my commencement when I graduated, these things are a waste of fucking time.
Jesus. What a shit heel, trying to enlist people during graduation. The fucking audacity.
Wait until you hear about those flyovers for the Superb Owl.
It was many times, too, interspersed throughout the speech. Also joked that anyone's parents in the audience would also be welcome. It just kept going.
Honestly military is a great path for a lot of people and he's representing the organization at the speech. Why shouldn't he be proud. He's not forcing anyone and I wouldn't be upset if it happened with any other profession. A doctor can brag about their hospital, an engineer can boast about their project and firms. Part of doing those speeches is saying look where I started, where I went and who I am now. This success is achievable.
Honestly military is a great path for a lot of people
Assuming the position of a prior disposable cog in our military industrial Leviathan is actually good, though. Its the officially outlet for lumpen proles who otherwise couldn't escape their low caste status. All you need to do is bloody your hands with the remains of villainous foreigners, and you can enter into a lottery to secure a sinecure in our corporate bureaucracy.
A doctor can brag about their hospital, an engineer can boast about their project and firms.
The world would be a better place if doctors at abortion clinics and engineers at the EPA got half as much respect as the military techs loading 2000 lb bombs into the drones sent to obliterate refugee tents in Rafa.
Part of doing those speeches is saying look where I started, where I went and who I am now. This success is achievable.
I'm a war criminal and you can too
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The problem is that the US military kills innocent people lol. I realize there is no ethical consumption under capitalism, but there is a big difference between working as a lackey for Microsoft and being enlisted as part of a government machine specifically designed to kill people. It says something about the person, and how far they're willing to push ethical boundaries.
Interesting. I thought engineers were supposed to be funneled into the companies that make the weapons, not use them. Either way it's kind of shitty to encourage people to enlist during a major event meant to celebrate their academic achievements.
Apparently you need engineers on both sides of that isle, at least that's what he seemed to indicate lol.
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Still better than Jerry Seinfeld.
Still better than the guy trying to push his crypto scam at Ohio State's ceremony this year.
A woman fell to her death right before the graduation ceremony... and then this guy did sing-a-longs, crypto powerpoints, and ayahuasca speeches?
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If that happened to me I would go find the person with a certificates and just take mine and leave
That's just Miley Cyrus
It’s all downhill from here.
To be fair Sophia's original speech, "How To Serve Man", was shelved by administrators.
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Do all AI robots look like Robocop without the helmet or am I just seeing the same robot?
Thing designed to look like a robot looks like a robot
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Good to show them their future. F you, all your jobs have been taken by AI
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The robot, built by Hong Kong-based firm Hanson Robotics, was also given several opportunities to plug the AI industry.
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I mean, I get the idea behind it.
Yeah. It takes a lot of work to express total disdain for the students in person. I can see how this robot expresses that contempt much more efficiently.
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If the idea was to shit on the class that was born right around 9/11, graduated during a global pandemic, and who is going to have to deal with both out of control climate change and AI taking their jobs, then it was executed beautifully. Otherwise it was extremely tone-deaf.
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Neuro-sama would have been acceptable. Well, I guess it doesn't matter much anyway. Not like human commencement speaker say anything new.
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