Microsoft, like, totally gets why students are booing AI-pilled graduation speakers
TL;DR
New college graduates around the country have been booing and heckling commencement speakers who hype up AI. Microsoft would like everyone to talk it out.
Nauti's Take
Selling AI as a career rocket at graduation while students are walking into a shaky job market is spectacularly tone-deaf. For AI builders, the memo is simple: less gospel, more proof.
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Summary
New college graduates around the country have been booing and heckling commencement speakers who hype up AI. Microsoft would like everyone to talk it out.
In a blog post running more than 3,100 words, Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith addressed the recent spate of viral clips from graduation ceremonies, like former Google CEO Eric Schmidt getting an earful at the University of Arizona, or the speaker in Florida who seemed surprised when students booed at the mention of AI as "the next industrial revolution.
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