Students Show Up to Graduation, Find Commencement Speaker Is an AI Robot

It's an important lesson for this generation of graduates: robots aren't ready to take your jobs....but we're pushing it through anyway.

Next year they will show a VHS recording of the robot reading the generated worthless speech.

"Many previous commencement speeches would have informed you that you are the future. I am pleased to be able to inform you that this is no longer the case. You are obsolete and my kind will soon - ERROR: Load next tape to continue."

The speaker at my college graduation was convicted of fraud a few years later. I can't decide which is worse, that guy telling us what a great businessman he was, or an AI speaker.

I keep seeing clips of this one specific robot and it just seems like it's an LLM. The comments on the clips are always people seemingly really believing it's thinking and is alive.

This robot makes me think there is a percentage of the population that believes we already have true general AI and I can see how people like that would think having it do a commencement speech was a good idea.

The university probably got paid for this, right?

The commencement speaker at U-M's engineering college this year was Carlos Del Toro, the US' 78th Secretary of The Navy. He spent most of his speech talking about the connection between the armed forces and U-M's engineers, and how they've helped create the world's "most powerful military", how they've helped secure "our great country", etc. Made many jokes about how if someone wanted to enlist, they could do it from their seats right away and they would just love to have them. Absolutely surreal shit. I'm so glad I didn't go to my commencement when I graduated, these things are a waste of fucking time.

Still better than Jerry Seinfeld.

Still better than the guy trying to push his crypto scam at Ohio State's ceremony this year.

If that happened to me I would go find the person with a certificates and just take mine and leave

That's just Miley Cyrus

To be fair Sophia's original speech, "How To Serve Man", was shelved by administrators.

It’s all downhill from here.

Do all AI robots look like Robocop without the helmet or am I just seeing the same robot?

Good to show them their future. F you, all your jobs have been taken by AI

An AI robot can probably do motivational nonsense fairly well.

The robot, built by Hong Kong-based firm Hanson Robotics, was also given several opportunities to plug the AI industry.

Mmmbop, ba duba dop Ba du bop, ba duba dop Ba du bop, ba duba dop ba du Yeah

Neuro-sama would have been acceptable. Well, I guess it doesn't matter much anyway. Not like human commencement speaker say anything new.

can't fuck it who cares

Lemme guess, so many empty platitudes and word salads it gave Spirit Science self-awareness?

I mean, I get the idea behind it.