Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt's AI-heavy graduation speech goes badly as graduates drown him out with boos

[ZedRM]

You know what they say about assumptions.

Well said.

Yet another bigshot completely out of touch with reality can't understand why he gets boo'd off a stage when he talked about the praises of AI. What a shocker!

 

[GoldenGoat]

I understand maybe not liking the news. I don't understand booing the person who is telling you. Do they think he's wrong, or that he has any personal ability to change it?

He’s not wrong, but it’s also not new. These are mostly kids who worked for 4 years while taking debt they may never be able to pay off for the hopes of getting a good job. They are in the middle of their job hunt. The graduation commencement should be a celebration, and instead they got a punch in the gut. Instead they got told they wasted their time and money and are no longer relevant. It’s just not the time and place for that. The university owes those kids an apology.

 

[Art C]

These kids have a right to be angry. At themselves. They just spent tens of thousands of dollars on worthless degrees. College doesn't teach anymore. They spent four or more years learning not skills, not talents, but only smug self-satisfaction and how to just scream into the void about how everyone else is a bigot for not handing them the world on a platter. Moreover, what little is left of the academics in colleges is incredibly watered down to keep the quota students from flunking out. College is one hundred percent worthless now. Don't go.

 

[OortCloud]

When are the US going to wake up to the tyranny these tech companies have imposed on them? They are turning the country into a hellhole and dragging the rest of the planet down with them. The only hope is that once a new administration gets in that actually maybe still has some vestiges of moral compass we may see a reckoning for these people but I do wonder if they have the balls to get on top of it.

 

[Gravitytr1]

About time we started not tolerating white collar criminals. This one is more of a white collar terrorist.

 

[Hecate91]

When are the US going to wake up to the tyranny these tech companies have imposed on them? They are turning the country into a hellhole and dragging the rest of the planet down with them. The only hope is that once a new administration gets in that actually maybe still has some vestiges of moral compass we may see a reckoning for these people but I do wonder if they have the balls to get on top of it.

Most people in the US don't have time to care, or are even aware of AI companies dragging everyone down into a dystopian hellhole. Those that do are realizing some corporation bought off the town leadership to build a datacenter. And it'll take a whole new administration term to even begin to undo all of the lawless corruption that tech companies have pushed for.

 

[Art C]

When are the US going to wake up to the tyranny these tech companies have imposed on them? They are turning the country into a hellhole and dragging the rest of the planet down with them. The only hope is that once a new administration gets in that actually maybe still has some vestiges of moral compass we may see a reckoning for these people but I do wonder if they have the balls to get on top of it.

Do not blame President Trump for the sins of Big Tech. He's doing a better job taming them than any of his predecessors. Not perfect, but better.

 

[OortCloud]

Do not blame President Trump for the sins of Big Tech. He's doing a better job taming them than any of his predecessors. Not perfect, but better.

No he isn't. He's utterly in the pocket of big tech and uses his announcements to manipulate the markets up and down on a daily basis to make eye-watering amounts of money... The administration is so corrupt and isn't even trying to hide it anymore. It's an utterly lawless free-for-all at the White House.

https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/trump-stock-trades-ce970ce9

 

[wiyosaya]

No he isn't. He's utterly in the pocket of big tech and uses his announcements to manipulate the markets up and down on a daily basis to make eye-watering amounts of money... The administration is so corrupt and isn't even trying to hide it anymore. It's an utterly lawless free-for-all at the White House.

https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/trump-stock-trades-ce970ce9

Don't forget that Trump and his minions have their claws firmly implanted in Big Tech re: https://www.techspot.com/news/110936-us-formalizes-25-tariff-nvidia-h200-amd-mi325x.html
But its somewhat backfiring on Trump as China has banned NVidia's H200 chips - https://247wallst.com/investing/202...-china-deal-but-its-amds-chips-beijing-wants/

IMO, Trump and his minions will go down as the most corrupt presidency in US History, but trying to explain that to those suffering from Trump Disciple Syndrome is a waste of time. They simply cannot see it yet.

And the SCOTUS decision that the president cannot be prosecuted for crimes committed while the president is performing constitutional duties will fly in Trump's face when he is prosecuted for the outright crimes he is committing as what he is doing has nothing to do with the presidential constitutional duties.

 

[Endymio]

No he isn't. He's utterly in the pocket of big tech and uses his announcements to manipulate the markets up and down on a daily basis to make eye-watering amounts of money

I realize you don't actually believe this nonsense: your statement, translated from LibSpeak into actual English reads, "blah blah I hate Trump blah blah." Trump's net worth has declined since he first became President in 2016, whereas Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden -- both of whom entered politics dirt-poor -- have become $100M+ multi-millionaires ... all on their "gubmint" salaries, of course.