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Commencement season has come around again \u2014 and this year, at least a couple speakers have discovered that it\u2019s tough to get graduating students excited about a future shaped by artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n
Last week, Gloria Caulfield, an executive at real estate firm Tavistock Development Company, gave a speech at the University of Central Florida<\/a> acknowledging that we\u2019re living in a time of \u201cprofound change,\u201d which can be both \u201cexciting\u201d and \u201cdaunting.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution,\u201d Caulfield declared \u2014 prompting the students in the audience to begin booing, getting louder and louder until Caulfield\u00a0chuckled, turned to the other speakers, and asked, \u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOkay, I struck a chord,\u201d she said. Caulfield then tried to resume her speech, saying, \u201cOnly a few years ago, AI was not a factor in our lives\u201d \u2014 only to be interrupted again by the audience, this time by their loud cheers and applause.<\/p>\n \n