Last week, Gloria Caulfield, an executive at real estate firm Tavistock Development Company, gave a speech at the University of Central Florida acknowledging that we're living in a time of 'profound change,' which can be both 'exciting' and 'daunting.' 'The rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution,' Caulfield declared ' prompting the students in the audience to begin booing, getting louder and louder until Caulfield chuckled, turned to the other speakers, and asked, 'What happened'' 'Okay, I struck a chord,' she said. Caulfield then tried to resume her speech, saying, 'Only a few years ago, AI was not a factor in our lives' ' only to be interrupted again by the audience, this time by their loud cheers and applause. In Schmidt's case, the criticism actually began before the speech itself, with some student groups calling for him to be removed as commencement speaker due to a lawsuit in which a former girlfriend and business partner accused Schmidt of sexual...
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