Up until the reality of the technology doesn’t align to the expectations and promises. That’s when true belief shifts to hype and lies in an effort to salvage the investment. I think that’s where we’re at now.

For people like Schmidt I think the hype is a true belief. You can see it in his posture and tone while being booed by the entire crowd. I’ve only seen that kind of self-satisfied smugness from evangelical religious nuts right before they tell someone they clearly regard with disgust that they’ll “pray for them.”

Their view of what AI promises is some kind of secular eschatological fantasy that’s only partly rooted in anything the technology or methods do.

Btw. they were booing him before he even got on a stage. There was a leaflet and a student action to boo him not because of his AI stance, but because of his ex accusing him of abuse (sic)

Here's the link to the leaflet: https://www.instagram.com/p/DYOdBRJlPe6/

Sure the AI comment brought a bit more boos, but he would be booed regardless of what he said.

Here is a link to uncut version of his speech:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1eM3jv0vWY&t=7984s

Yea, it's the smug grins from these guys that I can't stand. It's not enough that they won and they know they won, but they have to rub everyone else's noses in it, too.

agree but it is military thinking that makes him smug like that

More like his mouth goes wherever the money is.

Obvious to the grads he’s yet another “visionary” corporate hack waxing to them about how they’d better not miss the AI rocket ship.

i don't think you appreciate the degree of cynicism required to become a billionaire.