“Now it’s your time to realize your dreams,” he told graduates. “The timing could not be more perfect.”
My dream is a world without ultracapitalist CEOs.
My dream is that when I search something on the web I get results 100% arranged on relevance with no commercially motivated rearranging of results. I also dream about ad free OSs, but that one came true for me back in 2005 (thanks Linux!).
Well, Linux isn’t totally ad free. Once you use it, you become the ad.
Ngl this is such an underrated comment haha. 😂
That is a lot closer to the truth than I’m comfortable with 🙃
I thought linux came out around 1992?
that came true FOR ME
Not everyone adopted Linux the moment it was released
Lost_My_Mind is calling Linux gay
should replace CEOs with AI. They already talk like it anyway 🤷♂️
If you ask AI models to hallucinate what it would do as CEO, they usually say things that are environment and worker friendly, so it would be an improvement. Of course, they would train the CEO AI with nothing but Henry Ford speeches and books about the grindset.
Pichai has acheived next to nothing in 11 years at google that wasnt set up by previous leadershi-- all while keeping one of the largest and finest development teams in the world. No big product launches since 2015 when he too over. His “bard” AI effort crashed and burned. He can feel free to shut up and sit down. This pencil-dicked loser needs to do more listening than talking.
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Maybe he could use some of his millions to fix those nasty ass fucking teeth
I look at everyone this way who is pushing AI shit. Suspicious as fuck.
Fucking delusional. I’m betting their “AI” will never live up to the promises, good or bad.
It’s all hype to keep investors pouring in money in the hopes that the endless stream of money can fund the development of what they promise and tell us to fear.
It’s a classic scam. “Big return, we promise. We’ll strike oil soon, we just need more money.”
“…and live with its consequences.”
That’s why they’re booing, you moron.
“Humans aren’t evolved to process that much change,” he said, adding that the scale of the change is unlike anything the world has seen.
LOL, your massive plagiarism boxes are not that impressive, you pompous shit.
They hate it. Keep doing it.
I’m so tired of hearing reports of what CEOs and billionaires say, as if it was news. These people aren’t smart, they just managed to stay on stop for longest. Quit giving them a platform.
They own the platforms.
Most CEOs are smart. They’re smart in the corporate politics that keep one in such a position. They’re apparently doing something right in the eyes of the board members, or they’d be fired.
They are not smart in any sense that benefits humanity. The only thing they benefit is themselves.
“The board” is mostly just CEOs of other companies. All they have to do is vote for each others’ absurd compensation packages, no smartness required. It’s a true circlejerk.
Some CEOs I’ve met aren’t smart.
The vast majority that I’ve worked with are deeply analytical, highly intelligent and understand people really well. By any measure they are “very smart”.
But what all CEOs are, like most people who get to that level, is incredibly disciplined and willing to sacrifice almost anything to achieve at work. They work insane hours, at least all the ones I’ve seen.
It’s a nice story that it’s just a lottery and once you’re there you’re somehow in some secret club. The reality, at least as far as I’ve seen it, is very different; it’s about what you’re willing to give up to get there.
By any measure they are “very smart”.
Psychopaths. The word you’re looking for is psychopaths.
Maybe true in general. I’d love to hear about your experiences. I’ve worked closely to four CEOs. Only one of them felt like they treated people as objects. The rest were actually deeply concerned about how other people felt.
how large were those companies?
25000, 55000, 200, 2100 employees.
I think both sides are correct. AI will be still around a decade and centuries from now, and AI poses great risks. The real question is, “Who controls it?”
Hopefully the students do not try to destroy the loom, but instead try to make sure that they are so common and easy to use, that corporations do not have genuine control over the usage of AI. Every minority should have a digital lawyer that has 95% of the ability of Disney’s, to protect people from Kavenaugh Stops. Every poor person should be able to manage their finances just as well as the most blueblooded billionaire. Every household should own a home server and a robot, leasing their usage to corporations. Those corporations shouldn’t own the AI nor robots.
What I am saying, is that we should structure society to ensure that the worst people are not our masters forevermore. Their goal is to control the means of production, and to remove our lives from the process. Both figuratively AND literally.
I agree with your first statement. The conundrum of who controls it is more important than anything else at this point.
I find your comment about students destroying the loom misplaced and misinformed. I am guessing you are referring to the myth of the luddites. Of course the reality is they were never against the machines, but they were against being displaced by machines without compensation. Below are their demands.
"The establishment of a minimum wage to ensure workers could sustain their families despite changing production method.
The provision of work or compensation for skilled artisans and craftsmen who had been displaced by automated machinery.
The regulation and limitation of child and women’s labor in early industrial factories.
The legal right to form trade unions, which were outlawed at the time, to collectively bargain and advocate for improved working conditions.
Opposition to deceitfully manufactured, inferior goods that were being mass-produced on automated"
I like your optimism about LLM doctors and lawyers. Unfortunately with an error rate that can sometimes approach 60% along with hallucinations LLM AI is far from ready and would cause far more problems than it would solve.
You are absolutely correct that corporations shouldn’t own AI. If AI is to ever be useful and not purely a propaganda/advertising machine then corporations should not be in control of the models.
I appreciate your lofty goal of eliminating the worst people from being our masters. Unfortunately, the worst people already are in control of AI and it will likely end up just the opposite of your wishes. A tool to keep the worst people as masters.
I am aware that the wealthy already have control of AI, but that grasp isn’t firm yet. That is why it is important for people to start thinking about policy and implementation now, rather than letting the elite to shape the narrative.
As to optimism, AI is an technology, and it is improving quickly. Eventually, local AI will be able to fit into our phones, and be superior in quality and speed to what I have on my PC*. We should try to initiate an endeavor to make AI available to everyone. For example, Switzerland is working on Apertus, a sovereign AI model for themselves. The development of libre AI is extremely important for sustaining democracy, because it will become a fundamental tool for any modern society.
*A 5950x CPU, 128gb DDR4, 4090, and 3060. I can run 120b models on this aged but fairly powerful machine. Two years ago, on the same PC specs, 70b AI at best, with much inferior quality and speed. It used to take an hour to get output that I receive in minutes now.
Someone should Luigi this guy
Luigi is an automatic upvote. Innocent though he may be. Which he is, innocent. I’m serious, the cops are full of shit, on everything, a manifesto? Gtofo of here, we all wrote that shit after, because health insurance is the devil.
Do you side with Jesus or the Devil?
Although satisfying it wouldn’t really solve anything. They would just elect another CEO. They’re all exactly the same anyway.
You want to really make a change you burn down the data centres, that would really hit them where it hurts.
It’s probably time for all of these billionaires to start being scared of consequences.
What do you think they’re scared of? People booing them?
Unironically, a bit. These people are pure ego, and being booed is actually a thing they take great offense at
Rebellion
Lol. Yeah I’m sure they’re all adopting this technology because a shit load of people AREN’T using it. That makes sense.
They’re not afraid of “rebellion”, they’re afraid of higher taxes. That’s why they try to convince people to either vote for Republicans or pretend both parties are the same.
Both parties are the same when it comes to committing genocide in Palestine, so with that said, I don’t really care what their domestic policies are. “Do you want to vote for the slightly kinder Hitler or the meaner Hitler? Look at you, now it’s your fault that meaner-Hitler got elected!”
If they can’t even impeach trump I’m not getting my hopes up.
They impeached him twice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_impeachment_of_Donald_Trump#House_vote
The consequences : …
Nothing…
He was Charged with felony first-degree falsifying business records (34 counts)
Verdict: Guilty on all counts
The consequences : …
Nothing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecution_of_Donald_Trump_in_New_York
This begs the questions, “why wasn’t he ever sentenced?” and once he is no longer president can he be sentenced to do hard time for any of those 34 counts?
He wasn’t president when he was sentenced
Well, not technically. He had his sentence “discharged” the week of Jan 6 2025, which was technically while he was not president, but well after he had stolen his second term and it was certain he would be the president in about 2 weeks. So, he can’t be sentenced for those 34 felonies anymore, but I wonder if he would have been sentenced to time if he hadn’t stolen a second term.
Probably not, since the judge who unconditionally discharged any sentence was at the very least a Trump apologist who bent over backwards to give Trump the white glove treatment. At the very least Judge Merchan could have assessed fines equal to the value Trump stole with his crimes, or even put Trump on probation. Nope, just let him off free and clear.
I just hope some enterprising state AGs find more things to charge him with and he spends the last couple of years of his life rotting in prison.
These folks just don’t get it.
Let’s put aside the discussion of whether their enthusiasm for the tech is merited or not, that is beside the point.
A commencement speaker is not there to talk about themselves or their favorite things. They are not there to teach the graduates anything or try to debate with the graduates.
A commencement speaker is there to honor and respect the graduates. To commend them on how far they have come and express optimism for what they will bring to society in the future. To make them feel appreciated for all they have done and are about to do. To feel inspired by what they have accomplished and the possibilities they bring to society. There has been and will be plenty of opportunity to educate, debate, and convince them, but this is not the venue for any of that.
Speaking about how “awesome” AI is and how they should be grateful for it is disrespecting them by failing to let them be the focus of their own graduation.
the “Some of you may die” speech by Lord Farquaad from Shrek would be too on-the-nose, tho.
Sounds like a threat.
“These graduates are actually both going to be a big part of driving that progress and also dealing with the impact,” he added, referring to AI.
Out of context it sounds like a threat, but in connect it just sounds like vacuous CEO-speak, designed to respond to the question with some words while not actually answering the question.
Vacuous CEO speech is almost always a threat.
People are out here still rooting for the circus ring master when we have known for decades now that they’re beating and enslaving the elephants, tigers, and crew alike, while splitting what the pick pockets get from the crowd while everyone enjoys the show.
