Actual Intelligence - Steve Wozniak plays it classy with his commencement speech about AI.

Fast Company quoting Steve Wozniak’s commencement speech to the Grand Valley State University class of 2026:

“You all have AI—actual intelligence,” Wozniak said, eliciting applause from the Michigan audience. “My entire life in the technical world, I’ve been following people who were trying to figure out how to make a brain.

“I was at a company where the engineers figured out how to make a brain,” he continued, saying it “takes nine months.”

Brilliant.

While Eric Schmidt and other speakers were booed for their takes on AI, the worst has to be a botched graduation ceremony at Glendale Community College where many graduates didn’t get to hear their name called:

The president of Glendale Community College was pelted with a chorus of furious boos after an AI tool tasked with reading graduating students’ names completely and totally flunked the assignment. […]

…students and families at the Phoenix-area school were left disoriented when the names being read over the ceremony’s loudspeakers failed to match those of the students actually walking across the stage. The names displayed on the ceremony’s jumbotron were also mismatched.

“I also didn’t hear a lot of cheering, and I know my family is a pretty loud family,” graduating student Grace Reimer told AZFamily, explaining that she didn’t quite realize what went wrong until she heard her own name announced as she watched another student walked to receive their diploma. […]

The irony of the situation only compounds the resentment people have for AI. The job market is disrupted due to it, and now you can’t graduate without a sour taste in your mouth, knowing an AI system screwed up a milestone moment in your life.

Eventually the kids did get to walk with their names called, but the memory has already been etched.