> “It will touch every profession, every classroom, every hospital, every laboratory, every person and every relationship you have,” Schmidt said, as booing began to build in the audience.
This is being forced to listen to a former CEO talk about how amazing the products being built at the company he used to work at are. I'd have booed too.
danny_codes 19 days ago [-]
I mean they got Schmidt.. I think they failed at conception
ChrisArchitect 19 days ago [-]
[dupe]
The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam
Companies have been gleefully touting that AI is going to put everyone out of work for years now, with all gains going to the owner class.
What did they expect?
AnimalMuppet 19 days ago [-]
More: For years, universities have been presented as the answer for getting a good job. So now, at a university, to be touting AI... yeah, what did they expect?
nokeya 19 days ago [-]
HTTP error 451 for accessing this site outside of US, meh.
pixel_popping 19 days ago [-]
Boooooooh
9p 19 days ago [-]
out of touch 1%er unc fails the read on normal people social cues, tomatoes inbound. where have i seen this before?
steelkilt 19 days ago [-]
We all have self-constructed identities. When threat of deconstruction presents itself, we react. E.g. my college degree isn’t worth what I thought it was, therefore I’m not the person I thought I was, therefore AI is evil, doesn’t work right, is bad for the environment, is bad for society, et. al.
“This thing makes me feel less special, therefore I don’t like it.”
drawfloat 19 days ago [-]
They probably don’t like it because the AI industry has spent years saying it wants to make them all unemployed.
steelkilt 19 days ago [-]
Most of them won’t be unemployed.
JohnFen 19 days ago [-]
I honestly don't think this is a large factor. I think a larger factor for the pushback is "this tech looks like it's going to make my life harder and more unpleasant".
mulr00ney 19 days ago [-]
>is bad for the environment, is bad for society
Can't it be those too?
ofjcihen 19 days ago [-]
No way, it’s definitely 100% because college kids are entitled or something.
steelkilt 19 days ago [-]
I don’t blame them for how they feel. In fact, I feel sorry for them. Covid took a few years from them, then AI comes along and invalidates their career choices. That’s a hard case.
ofjcihen 19 days ago [-]
Oh yeah I don’t blame them at all.
And to be clear that was sarcasm from my earlier comment.
Nah the kids grew up in the middle of “once in a lifetime” events and are now subject to a life where what’s considered a viable career changes every 2 years or so.
They’ve never known a stable world.
scrubs 19 days ago [-]
Entitled? Or something?
Reactionary. At worst young kids are lazy (in selected cases only) and nieve about how work works.
Entitlement comes from mental disorder or growing up in affluence like much of the upper 5%.
Moreover, kids from middle to lower income brackets i think work harder, are more resilient, and take their education more seriously than those that just fall in Harvard. The underlying difference? Consequences in the real world. When you always land on your feet or feel untouchable entitlement is 6 months away to a lifetime of clueless.
DeltaCoast 19 days ago [-]
I think the comment you are responding to meant that sarcastically.
ofjcihen 19 days ago [-]
Si
scrubs 18 days ago [-]
Oh! My bad!. Let give me give my best rosane rosanadanna (from old school SNL TV era) "never mind"
steelkilt 19 days ago [-]
Of course. Multiple things can be true.
addycb 19 days ago [-]
"Fuck you, got mine"
steelkilt 19 days ago [-]
Most of the people I know worked pretty hard for what they have.
danny_codes 19 days ago [-]
Tale as old as boomer
steelkilt 19 days ago [-]
Actually, that’s a tale as old as humanity itself.
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This is being forced to listen to a former CEO talk about how amazing the products being built at the company he used to work at are. I'd have booed too.
The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188310
Eric Schmidt booed at University of Arizona after praising AI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172419
Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096674
Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177107
An AI Hate Wave Is Here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173318
What did they expect?
“This thing makes me feel less special, therefore I don’t like it.”
Can't it be those too?
And to be clear that was sarcasm from my earlier comment.
Nah the kids grew up in the middle of “once in a lifetime” events and are now subject to a life where what’s considered a viable career changes every 2 years or so.
They’ve never known a stable world.
Reactionary. At worst young kids are lazy (in selected cases only) and nieve about how work works.
Entitlement comes from mental disorder or growing up in affluence like much of the upper 5%.
Moreover, kids from middle to lower income brackets i think work harder, are more resilient, and take their education more seriously than those that just fall in Harvard. The underlying difference? Consequences in the real world. When you always land on your feet or feel untouchable entitlement is 6 months away to a lifetime of clueless.