If you're set to give a university commencement address in the near future—and I know some of you are—here's a PC Gamer tip: don't hype up AI. Turns out modern grads just don't want to hear your paeans to LLMs, whether you're the real estate exec who got heckles for calling AI "the next industrial revolution" or ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who drew loud boos when he sang hosannahs to how AI is surely going to transform every aspect of our lives.
Instead, you should probably try to be more like Steve Wozniak (a universally applicable bit of advice). The creator of the OG Apple I managed to make history again when he became perhaps the first commencement speech-giver to bring up AI and get a positive response. How? By remembering he was talking to smart, driven people with potential, not a roundtable of shareholders.
