Mastodawn

Okay, what is an "AI tool" doing that wasn't fixed by people handing someone a slip of paper with their name and phonetics at graduation?

Futurism: Students Boo and Jeer as AI Name-Reader Flops Spectacularly at College Graduation Ceremony

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-name-reader-flops-college-graduation

h/t @MikeElgan

#ai #graduation #college

Students Boo and Jeer as AI Name-Reader Flops Spectacularly at College Graduation Ceremony

A college president was booed after a generative AI tool tasked with reading graduating students' names completely bungled the job.

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AI6YR Ben May 19

If you were a PERSON who did this, you'd be fired. You probably would never have been hired in the first place. This is typically where a faculty member would do the reading... Hashtag YOUHADONEJOB

I must object to "hashtag YOUHADONEJOB"

The promise of "AI" is that it must be able to do all jobs. You can use one tool for all tasks without having to make multiple tools (i.e. program solutions for each thing). If "AI" cannot do all the jobs, then it is definitely not worth the environmental destruction that it causes.

I mean, it's not worth it anyways, but the case for it really falls apart when it cannot be a general purpose tool.