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ylai@lemmy.ml to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

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

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

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ylai@lemmy.ml to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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The robot, named Sophia, gave painfully generic answers and even plugged the AI industry. Many students felt "disrespected" by the decision.
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    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.

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      Yeah well I had a Starfleet Captain, so I feel like I’m winning.

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        You have to give at least which one!

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          Hint, she straight up killed a guy.

          Kidding, but holy shit Kate giving a commencement would be amazing.

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      Our pacifist, agnostic campus had a southern Baptist commencement speaker desperately invoking the parallels of graduation to a higher power and lauding our nation’s military invasion of Iraq. How in the actual fuck did the admin greenlight that one. Strangest ending to 4 years ever.

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      As long as the alumni fund gets its share, it’s all good.

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      Whoever was paid less is better.

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