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[–] Bloefz@lemmy.world 279 points 5 days ago (5 children)

"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.

[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 86 points 4 days ago (9 children)

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!).

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[–] blackjam_alex@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

They hate it. Keep doing it.

[–] bender223@lemmy.today 25 points 3 days ago (2 children)

should replace CEOs with AI. They already talk like it anyway 🤷‍♂️

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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Bogus007@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago

I have not large doubts that he and even some people in his position elsewhere can be replaced by AI. We could save a hell lot of money and be even more productive!

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 39 points 4 days ago (8 children)

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.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Also to rouse and inspire them.

"I'm working on a machine that will make you guys redundant, and then I'll make those booing me see. l'll make you all see." is hardly going to do that.

He would be much better off talking about how it was the stuff of science fiction not long ago, and how the graduates would be helping to push humanity forward, and make real, things that were previously considered impossible.

Some of the talks are also just really bad. I've seen a few, and they're little more than ads, or bragging about a thing the institution is doing that's unrelated to the graduates themselves. Saw one where the speaker was talking about how the college was using AI for various things. Why even have that in the graduates' speech?

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[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 56 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"...and live with its consequences."

That's why they're booing, you moron.

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[–] Toothy@lemmus.org 43 points 4 days ago (15 children)

It’s probably time for all of these billionaires to start being scared of consequences.

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[–] SubstituteTurkey@lemmy.ca 102 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 77 points 5 days ago (4 children)

"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.

[–] its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Vacuous CEO speech is almost always a threat.

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Now it's time to realize your dreams

Okay, get in!

[–] etherphon@piefed.world 79 points 4 days ago (4 children)

"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.

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[–] breezeblock@lemmy.ca 49 points 4 days ago (8 children)

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.

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[–] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 34 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 61 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Someone should Luigi this guy

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 34 points 5 days ago (3 children)

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?

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[–] FluidBeef@quokk.au 28 points 4 days ago

That’s why they’re booing.

Blow his brains out

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 28 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I love how butthurt these people get when faced with criticism. Like fucking toddlers

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[–] 7101334@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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?

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[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 41 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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.

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 33 points 4 days ago (6 children)

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?

[–] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] homes@piefed.world 36 points 4 days ago

THATS WHY THEYRE BOOING!

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This sounds like a threat...

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

It definitely is a threat. Considering they are already planning on replacing entry level positions with AI they are directly attacking this new generation's livelihood.

So the fact that they get a little pushback for trying to end the cycle of employment is kind of a joke. This new generation should literally be at their throats if they knew what was good for them.

[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 2 points 2 days ago

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.

Yes. And a direct one at that.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 33 points 5 days ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This sounds like a threat.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

He's going to have to face consequences, too.

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[–] Casterial@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago

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!

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 21 points 4 days ago

They know they're going to live with the consequences of AI, that's why they're booing it.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

All the supposed top education developed Pichai and it failed. He still believes in the completely fucked up Caste System which leads to his view on AI. He wants to keep the lower class and make sure it remains that way.

[–] thlibos@thelemmy.club 18 points 4 days ago

I'll have a Sundar Pichai on a brioche bun with mustard and onions, please.

[–] Danarchy@lemmy.nz 21 points 4 days ago

He’s right we may regret leaving the necks of billionaires unsevered

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