U.C.F. Students Boo Commencement Speaker for A.I. Comments

“The rise of artificial intelligence is the next Industrial Revolution. [booing] What happened? OK, I struck a chord. May I finish? Only a few years ago, A.I. was not a factor in our lives. [cheering] OK —all right. And now, A.I. capabilities are in the palm of our hands. And — oh, I love it.” “It felt like she did not know the crowd she was speaking to. It did not feel particularly inspiring for a bunch of young people about to enter the workforce in these creative fields. A lot of art students are pretty against specifically generative A.I. It can only spit things out that already exists. And I think a lot of artists, we want to tell stories from our own personal experiences. We want to create things that don’t exist yet.” “A.I., alongside human intelligence has the potential for — to help us solve some of humanity’s greatest problems.”