The former Google boss then appeared to abandon his attempts at empathy by talking about how…

quasi-normalcy: > Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s AI-heavy graduation speech goes badly as graduates drown him out with boos > >> The former Google boss then appeared to abandon his attempts at empathy by talking about how fantastic AI is, adding a bit of a taunt to those who refuse to use it. > >> “You can now assemble a team of AI agents to help you with the parts that you could never accomplish on your own. When someone offers you a seat on the rocket ship, you do not ask which seat. You just get on.” > > Actually, rocketships might be a telling metaphor, because they’re big, flashy and fast, and science fiction makes out that you can take them to all sorts of interesting places; but in practice, they mostly lead to empty void and to harsh, desolate worlds where no one would be able to live.