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"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.
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.
Now it's time to realize your dreams
Okay, get in!
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?
"...and live with its consequences."
That's why they're booing, you moron.
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.
It’s probably time for all of these billionaires to start being scared of consequences.
From the banchode who had uBlock Origin killed from running on regular Chrome 150 because he thinks it's killing his profit from ads.
https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/1000
r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1tlkaaw/goodbye_chrome_version_150_removes_the/
And of course throwing in AI shite into Chrome with that awfully huge 4gb unwanted addition.
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.
THATS WHY THEYRE BOOING!
LLMs are really good at avoiding direct answers and spitting out words in sensible order that has absolutely no meanings.
You know who's also good at it? CEOs. Replace CEOS.
I look forward to AI slop making the next group of senior software engineers make complete crap because they have no idea what good software actually is.
There's going to be another market for consultants cleaning up these moron's mess once again.
Well, think of the bigger picture. After 3-4 generations, there won't even BE consultants to clean up the mess. No one will know how to code at all. It's ALL going to be AI.
Why do these colleges keep inviting these chucklefucks to speak to the various student bodies that clearly hate them? Humiliation tour or something? Or are they all completely up their own asses?
the leadership at a lot of companies have a very poor read on public sentiment, kind of strange given how much data they collect and how much they like to talk about how good they are at using that data.
And a lot of high level leadership at collages run in the same circles are executives at big companies. These speech events are sort of a benefit for both sides, the leadership at the collage gets to advertise what a good job they’re doing that they were able to get someone so influential to speak, and the speaker gets a sudo-academic platform to state their ideas and an ego boost from the huge in person captive audience.
A lot of them just kind of write off the discontent they see as “a vocal minority”, so when mass confronted with actual public sentiment, i do think it kind of blind sides them.
That’s why they’re booing.
I love how butthurt these people get when faced with criticism. Like fucking toddlers
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.”
Summon the plumber
No.
These graduates, and the incoming generation, won't shape LLM's and GenAI. Limpdick, loser fucking nerd billionaires will.
The kids will be left with scraps, by design, and that's the problem.
They hate it. Keep doing it.
They know they're going to live with the consequences of AI, that's why they're booing it.
He’s right we may regret leaving the necks of billionaires unsevered
We're living with the consequences of his generation and the generation before him currently. Unaffordable housing, low wages, high taxes, falling apart economies and a constant threat that we'll be replaced as soon as possible to please the CEO lords in the name of short term profits!
I'll have a Sundar Pichai on a brioche bun with mustard and onions, please.
What mental gymnastics would you need to not see the obvious contradiction here? He's obviously lying, but how could he think people would actually buy this argument? It's insulting. Super insulting. And yet he will be the winner in the end. AI has singlehandedly ruined mine and many people's lives and he's just LAUGHING AT OUR DEMISE. Is this what Luigi felt before assassinating that health care CEO?
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.
This seems like a wonderful time to share this wonderful song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_mzYS-ET8o
oh fuck you
and your ai
fuck you elon, fuck you sam,
fuck you sundar pichai
you said the chance
that we all die is
around 1 in 5 – was that hype?
or are you really
generating genocide?
I see no reason to listen to what that guy has to say on this topic. He's only out for money and you can't believe a word he says and he's not an expert on it.
Interesting commentary on this by historian Aparna Nair on Bluesky. Essentially, saying that caste and discrimination is inherent in a certain cohort of the society which adhere to racism and eugenics.
https://bsky.app/profile/disabilitystor1.bsky.social/post/3mmlwmp5sf22r
Not visible unless having a Bsky account
But yeah, some of these emigres still cling onto attitudes and prejudices which they then apply to even a foreign environment. In this case, screwing the millions of people having become heavily reliant on Alphabet products. And Americans now have an FBI director of Indian origin with a fuck-you-got-mine mindset.
On top of that, India in a way is a dystopia where the wealth gap is very staggering. Millions in abject poverty and literally eating from scraps, Muslims are increasingly marginalized, women of all ages almost face sexual violence. While simultaneously having nuclear weapons, a space program, and the most active homegrown industries asides from China.
Has there ever been a case where a CEO makes a claim that x will change the future of human history and then the CEO has turned out to be correct?
Remember 3D TVs the technology that was so obviously never going to catch on except amongst CEOs. Now where are they? Can you even buy a 3D TV anymore?
I hope when he gives his lecture, the students egg him on.
And when I say egg him on... I mean throw. At. And a large quantity of.
