It’s May 8, a day of celebration for thousands of students who are graduating from the University of Central Florida. Commencement speaker Gloria Caulfield, a local real estate executive, is talking about the world of possibilities awaiting graduates.
Then, she hits her main point, calling artificial intelligence “the next industrial revolution,” and she touches a nerve. The room erupts in boos and jeers.
And when she recalls that “only a few years ago, AI was not a factor in our lives,” the mood swings the other way: the crowd begins cheering and whistling…