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    Studenten loben Eröffnungsrednerin, nachdem sie KI als „nächste industrielle Revolution“ bezeichnet hat

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    2. GeneReddit123 on

      The OG Industrial Revolution had:

      * Thousands of polluting factories propping up all over the country.
      * Abysmal work conditions.
      * Destruction of traditional ways of life.
      * Massive increase in inequality.
      * Many decades of worsened life for millions before is started getting better.
      * The „getting better“ part crucially required massive (and initially highly resisted by elites) reform laws governing work conditions, wages, environmental regulation, economic redistribution, and political representation to allow the above (19th century „rotten boroughs“ were the OG „gerrymandering“) rather than „just leaving it to the free market to sort out“.

      So she’s ironically not wrong (even if not in the way she probably meant it). The Industrial Revolution was not an on-off switch that turned peasants to city workers; this is historical flattening done from a position of privilege of those who didn’t have to go through the long and arduous process of actual industrialization. We are the beneficiaries of the technologies the Industrial Revolution created *after* many past generations paid the cost in suffering, squalor, and struggle for political reform.

      And *our* generation is now the one who will be paying these costs and solving the issues caused by AI, before we (or future generations) have any chance to reap the benefits that offset its costs.

    4. CreativeFraud on

      Revolution. 🤣 It’s being used for CSAM. Get real. This shit is going to cause way more problems than it will solve. Sad to see they drank the kkkoolaid.

    7. LostInLittleroot on

      Why have someone that works at an investment firm for a *humanities* commencement speaker of all majors lmao

    8. thecreep on

      Incorrect. The next revolution will be the mass manufacture of Mad Max type vehicles and assless chaps. Only The Ayatollah of Rock ’n‘ Rolla can truly prepare these kids for the future.

    14. Elfhoe on

      Going full on pro-AI in front of a room of humanities and arts majors is certainly a choice. I guess AI didnt teach her the timeless classic of knowing who your audience is.

    17. DaemonDrayke on

      Praising AI is so fucking weird to me because the end result is that we eventually create an AI that can think for itself and have true sentience. At that point, what right do we have in asking for it to do anything if it doesn’t want to do so? What incentive could we provide something that lacks a functional form? It’s not like we could provide it currency or goods for the services it was created to provide.

    20. letdogsvote on

      „AI is the next Industrial Revolution and you all won’t have jobs and will be obsolete! :D“

      *Why are they booing me…?*

    23. Van_Caspia on

      Boomers obsession with AI because they don’t understand it or the negative implications of it (they drank the marketing kool-aid) will cause a major market crash and economic despair for the next few generations

    24. JWAdvocate83 on

      “AI is beginning to challenge all major sectors to find their highest and best use,” she continued. “Okay, I don’t want any giggles when I say this. We have been through this before, these industrial revolutions. In my graduation era, we were faced with the launch of the internet.”

      — Yeah, the one where [two million people were laid off](https://sfist.com/2022/11/10/throwback-thursday-the-last-big-tech-layoff-bloodbath-the-dot-com-bust-of-2000-2001/).

    29. howescj82 on

      I mean, what were they expecting the response to be? Everyone is literally being told that these companies are trying to replace their employees with AI so it’s not like people are overreacting.

      Meta is literally installing monitoring software on its employees computers to train their AI how to do the things that they do.

    30. literal_cyanide on

      In a room full of artists, writers, designers, and programmers, she thought this would go over well.

    31. Hanging_Thread on

      Let’s tell them all about the jobs they won’t get anymore after graduation!

      Tone deaf. 🙄

    33. Kerlyle on

      „You are all worthless, and your work has been for nothing… Please clap“

    34. throwawaygaydude69 on

      I wish Indian students were like this as well

      Sadly they are on the AI pipeline

    35. Spirited-Iron-9517 on

      LLMS are a scam, and AI was only forced on us so Elites can horde more wealth and power.

      Tech Bros are the new powder wigs, and 99% of the people who talk positively about it are either investing financially in it, or are trying too hard to look like they understand technology trends and never understood why Blockchains and NFTs were a scam.

    36. NeverLookBothWays on

      More like a surveillance revolution. More and more money is being poured into building datacenters that aggregate every detail about us as individuals, including our entire genome sequences.

    40. datalicearcher on

      the industrial revolution led to an absolute explosion of exploitation of workers in deeply unsafe conditions…..and people want that AGAIN?

    41. qckpckt on

      Mechanizing industry I’m sure had its own fair share of contemporary skeptics, along with false starts and dead ends.

      But even considering that, the Industrial Revolution was ultimately propelled by the concrete and undeniable productivity improvements that resulted from it. I am not an AI apologist so please bear with me through the next sentence. Workers were absolutely fucked over by this for a generation or more, but the tragedy of that must ultimately be weighed against the fact that it unlocked our existence. Most of us would never have even been born if it wasn’t for the Industrial Revolution. That is a pretty compelling outcome from an event that undeniably caused global suffering.

      With generative AI, where are the productivity gains? Like literally where are they? Im saying this as someone who works for an AI startup. Our company literally exists on the premise that there are productivity gains to be had, BUT that these gains require the existence of a company to build the framework to link an LLM effectively to other systems. We often run into this — basically if genAI really is a magic bullet, then there’s no reason for us to exist, but it isn’t, and continues not to be, and so we are offering value.

      Today, it feels to me like the benefits that will emerge from the technology will have more in common with those that resulted from the “big data” hype cycle a decade or so ago. It’s not a panacea.

      That’s I think what I find so tiring about this narrative. Maybe we are in the false start phase and in a week a model will launch that just utterly annihilates any hope of human-centric productivity. But like an LLM isn’t an automatic loom. It’s not generally apparent how to tweak it when it malfunctions, it boils an ocean to knit a sweater, and building them at scale requires a complete up-ending of economies.

      It feels like the biggest risk to humanity right now is not AI, but that the entire AI industry becomes a giant all-consuming ouroboros of slop, warping the global economy until it’s torn to shreds, all to satisfy the circlejerk of like 8 dudes, with absolutely no benefits to humanity at all. It doesn’t feel unreasonable to worry that the sub-humans in charge of these orgs will see a future where they can just continue to shuffle this giant pot of imaginary money around between their cronies, shut down all remaining useful features in their products, and fire basically all staff while maintaining excellent valuations and quarterly earnings reports.

    42. jacuzzi-sushi on

      I’m tired of listening to people who don’t understand AI tell me how important AI is. Opportunists. They see an opportunity to cash in. That is what excites them. Momma needs a fourth summer home.

    43. DontBotherApplying on

      ROFL. She’s addressing the most anti-AI generation and gives that speech.

    45. Ok-Doughnut5155 on

      I mean it’s not an Industrial Revolution. It’s more similar to the spinning jenny(and was seen in much a similar way to AI).

    46. Z0idberg_MD on

      It would have to be „the next revolution where we won’t have to work as much and UBI will enter the world“, otherwise, it’s a guaranteed pathway to every cyberpunk dystopia we’ve been thinking about.

    48. YoshiTheDog420 on

      Was there ever a technology that the majority of people said, “absolutely not” to, more or as much as we have towards most of AI?

    49. BicFleetwood on

      Damn its almost as if telling a bunch of kids who just went into lifelong debt to earn their degrees that the machines designed to replace them in the workforce are the way of the future isn’t going to go over very well.

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