Students Show Up to Graduation, Find Commencement Speaker Is an AI Robot
Students Show Up to Graduation, Find Commencement Speaker Is an AI Robot
The robot, named Sophia, gave painfully generic answers and even plugged the AI industry. Many students felt "disrespected" by the decision.
Man, can you imagine, the meaningless platitudes that are normally said at these ceremonies, but it's not even a human speaker, but rather an overengineered loudspeaker.
36That sucks bro... hey have you considered contributing more to our new AI initiative? We're heading to the maximum future, today!
11Meaningless? I've listened to some excellent graduation speaches. Chris Hedges comes to mind
1Yeah, I think, we'll have to agree to disagree on that one. I know, I'm on the extreme side with never having liked such a ceremony. I think, it's because I simply stop feeling represented with the kind of generic speech you get when addressing more than a dozen people, because I guess, I'm just too special of a snowflake...
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The real question is did the ai go on and on (like my commencement speaker who narrated their life), Or was it a short speech?
12Most likely a prerecorded message, whoever rented out that clanker probably did not want to leave anything to chance.
6It did have a Q&A section where you could ask the robot questions.
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Was the valedictorian a Palestinian that got replaced again?
11Imagine paying all that money to find out your uni doesn’t give a shit about you at all.
5Kids in highschool during the pandemic are graduating college now 🤯
Getting old is so weird.
5The "Ex Machina" sequel is going way too far to believable, they really need to dial back on the surrealist black comedy.
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