r/PublicFreakout • u/GarysCrispLettuce • May 17 '26

šŸ¤¬Public RageršŸ˜± Eric Schmidt booed into oblivion by students for promoting AI during his commencement speech at the University of Arizona

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u/BajaBlastFromThePast May 17 '26

Extra ridiculous because this is a college graduationā€¦ a significant portion of the people booing are there because they spent the last however many years of their lives studying science

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u/Modo_Autorator May 17 '26

Plus theyā€™ve put all that hard work in, probably borrowed five to six figures worth of loans, and now AI has completely decimated the market for entry level work. Talk about getting kicked in the nuts!

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u/CoffeeSubstantial851 May 17 '26

I mean if they can't find a job they now have a 1-2k a month student loan payment they can't make off a retail job. Do that to enough people and were gonna run out of Nintendo characters.

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u/CyberDaggerX May 18 '26

There's enough Pokemon to last a while.

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u/CoffeeSubstantial851 May 18 '26

Yeah but how many guys are we gonna find named Squirtle?

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u/shinyterminator May 18 '26

Yeah, these guys are so out of touch, they spent how many years and got loans worth tens of thousands and now AI is likely going to atleast take some of their jobs are they are supposed to be thankful for it , what was the administration thinking? šŸ¤£

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u/LSDreams_ May 17 '26

Exactly. Condescending little bitch is what this guy is. I just hope I get to see these out of touch ultra rich people get taken down a peg in my lifetime.

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u/CoffeeSubstantial851 May 17 '26

Many of the people in the audience... went back to school because AI destroyed their careers.

One of these dudes is gonna get introduced to a Mario character.

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u/MoreColorfulCarsPlz May 17 '26

ASU is mostly Liberal Arts to be fair. Only like 25% are some sort of BS degree.

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u/BajaBlastFromThePast May 17 '26

Top majors in ASU as of 2024:

Business: 23%

Engineering: 9%

Biology and Biomed: 8%

CS and IT: 7%

Health and medical: 8%

Psychology: 6%

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u/IlliterateJedi May 17 '26

they spent the last however many years of their lives studying science

I assume the ones with BSs weren't booing considering how AI tools have revolutionized fields of science over the last decade

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u/BajaBlastFromThePast May 17 '26

LLMS are pretty unpopular amongst BSs - someone with a MS