#Graduation #AI #fail seems to be a recurring theme lately
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@PeterLG @benroyce I'm an AI statistician and I agree with you! Use tech for things that humans are really bad at and tech is much better at, not things that humans are inherently better at but just more expensive for.
(And in this case, how much more expensive would it have been to have a human saying the names?)
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Isn't that cheating?
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#CNN on instagram has video of an example of the #graduation #AI #fail at #Glendale CC in #Arizona
no, that is not Derek Martinez
️and isn't it lovely to do all that hard work in college and then in the moment of your success and triumph you're churned through with a robot's voice instead of a fucking human being?
@benroyce at that point, just open the floor and let the students find their own pieces of expensive toilet paper
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#Graduation #AI #fail seems to be a recurring theme lately
Here's the latest
for you:#Glendale community #college in #Arizona used AI to read names
Predictably, it missed people, it had the names out of order, etc
Because, of course, a human reading the names of #graduates and giving them simple decent recognition for their dedication and work is too hard?
This is video of college #faculty trying to explain the debacle. The crowd reaction is not supportive
And oh yeah: Fuck AI
@benroyce gonna be an outlier year in alumni giving down the line.
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we're still in the dreamy honeymoon phase of starry eyed "AI for everything!"
even things, as you note, that do not remotely deserve an AI treatment. and is even rather insulting and cold
i suspect that will change
it damn well better change
trained doggo would be more popular with the students and provide a cute video (you could dress it up in cap and gown )
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@benroyce at that point, just open the floor and let the students find their own pieces of expensive toilet paper
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@pixelpusher220 @PeterLG @benroyce Maybe - although I could absolutely see a Dean Pelton type thinking it was a great idea with or without the brown envelopes changing hands.
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#Graduation #AI #fail seems to be a recurring theme lately
Here's the latest
for you:#Glendale community #college in #Arizona used AI to read names
Predictably, it missed people, it had the names out of order, etc
Because, of course, a human reading the names of #graduates and giving them simple decent recognition for their dedication and work is too hard?
This is video of college #faculty trying to explain the debacle. The crowd reaction is not supportive
And oh yeah: Fuck AI
@benroyce I would have left after yelling, "fuck this AI bullshit".
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@benroyce Wow. I did not think any institution of higher learning was dumb enough to screw up a graduation ceremony with AI. Apparently I was mistaken.
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@PeterLG @benroyce I noticed today that my local grocery store has started doing announcements this way. Not even pre-recorded advertising announcements they'd have to repeat regularly, but impromptu things, too. It makes no sense to me even there, but for a serious and meaningful occasion like a graduation it's terrible. What next, AI eulogies for your funeral?
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#Graduation #AI #fail seems to be a recurring theme lately
Here's the latest
for you:#Glendale community #college in #Arizona used AI to read names
Predictably, it missed people, it had the names out of order, etc
Because, of course, a human reading the names of #graduates and giving them simple decent recognition for their dedication and work is too hard?
This is video of college #faculty trying to explain the debacle. The crowd reaction is not supportive
And oh yeah: Fuck AI
@benroyce the sad part is that the faculty and staff are proud of their graduates. Surely there would be volunteers to read the names if they only asked.
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@PeterLG @benroyce I noticed today that my local grocery store has started doing announcements this way. Not even pre-recorded advertising announcements they'd have to repeat regularly, but impromptu things, too. It makes no sense to me even there, but for a serious and meaningful occasion like a graduation it's terrible. What next, AI eulogies for your funeral?
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#Graduation #AI #fail seems to be a recurring theme lately
Here's the latest
for you:#Glendale community #college in #Arizona used AI to read names
Predictably, it missed people, it had the names out of order, etc
Because, of course, a human reading the names of #graduates and giving them simple decent recognition for their dedication and work is too hard?
This is video of college #faculty trying to explain the debacle. The crowd reaction is not supportive
And oh yeah: Fuck AI
@benroyce Christ on 67 bicycles, this is infuriating.
"Just take pictures bro I promise you'll be able to remember this shitty moment bro just upload the pics to Insta bro you'll have something to remember us shitting on your graduation by bro plz bro just do AI bro"
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I genuinely don't understand why they would spend money on AI to read names at graduation... getting a faculty member to volunteer to do it, a faculty member who is already being paid a salary and thus costs nothing extra, is better in every possible scenario.
Maybe next year they'll hire a trained dog to bark out the names? It would go over better
@RantingCanuck I was assuming it's a case of "we paid for it, we have to figure out something to do with it." @benroyce
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#CNN on instagram has video of an example of the #graduation #AI #fail at #Glendale CC in #Arizona
no, that is not Derek Martinez
️and isn't it lovely to do all that hard work in college and then in the moment of your success and triumph you're churned through with a robot's voice instead of a fucking human being?
Gentle people, when some wanker who has made billions of dollars lying to investors, employers and customers tells you that you should use his crappy technology for a simple task that you already know how to do very well, just tell him to fuck right off.
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#Graduation #AI #fail seems to be a recurring theme lately
Here's the latest
for you:#Glendale community #college in #Arizona used AI to read names
Predictably, it missed people, it had the names out of order, etc
Because, of course, a human reading the names of #graduates and giving them simple decent recognition for their dedication and work is too hard?
This is video of college #faculty trying to explain the debacle. The crowd reaction is not supportive
And oh yeah: Fuck AI
@benroyce this is so lousy
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#Graduation #AI #fail seems to be a recurring theme lately
Here's the latest
for you:#Glendale community #college in #Arizona used AI to read names
Predictably, it missed people, it had the names out of order, etc
Because, of course, a human reading the names of #graduates and giving them simple decent recognition for their dedication and work is too hard?
This is video of college #faculty trying to explain the debacle. The crowd reaction is not supportive
And oh yeah: Fuck AI
@benroyce The rationalization for this is that the AI was trained on a variety of names from different cultures and so wouldn't mess upthe names of immigrant student, whereas it would not be practical for a single faculty member to memorize the pronunciation of the names of all 1000+ students in the graduating class. What I guess is that a white salesperson told a committee full of white people that students of color wanted this technology and the committee never bothered to ask said students.
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#Graduation #AI #fail seems to be a recurring theme lately
Here's the latest
for you:#Glendale community #college in #Arizona used AI to read names
Predictably, it missed people, it had the names out of order, etc
Because, of course, a human reading the names of #graduates and giving them simple decent recognition for their dedication and work is too hard?
This is video of college #faculty trying to explain the debacle. The crowd reaction is not supportive
And oh yeah: Fuck AI
@benroyce My university student file had multiple typed up phonetic pronunciations of my (dead) last name, because they knew how important that is to their students.
I assume the teaching team noted them, because they're really good attempts. It showed they hadn't pulled them from a name pronunciation database from who-knows-where, because I highly doubt my family pronounces it in the correct German way.
I'm sure that university must have had something similar, and I fail to see how an AI agent could have reduced costs in a perceivable way.
They still had a speaker on the stage who could announce the student's names, someone to manage and monitor the stream and someone to direct the students to stage, who also could direct the speaker and stream monitor if someone is missing from the queue.
