Mastodawn

If you enjoy watching old people fail to read the room, watch somebody try to tell students that Generative AI is the next industrial revolution:

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JTI 6d ago

@GossiTheDog Just as a practical observation:

I'm not sure if I would go as a far a "next industrial revolution", maybe tone it down 2 notches. It's a graduation speech so subtract 2 notches mentally anyway, right?
However: Those people in the audience will, if they want it or not, be impacted by it for the better part of a decade, their first decade in the industry.
Thus, they better get knowledgeable about it and prepare to weather that storm that is coming at them and make the best out of whatever it'll be. Negating or just booing it is not exactly the winning strategy in context of reality I'm afraid here. And I'd hope their degree programs did a good job at preparing them.
No rotten tomatoes, eggs etc were applied, so all good I guess, eh?

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Chris Adams

@jti42 @GossiTheDog I think it's more that they've spent the last couple of years hearing the leaders of most of the places they're hoping to get jobs at talking about layoffs and not hiring entry-level positions because of AI. Whether or not something is productive for the larger economy or even their personal proficiency levels, you're not going to get cheers from people who are personally facing tougher odds for getting what will be worse jobs.