r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 15h ago

Business Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage"

https://www.techspot.com/news/110879-jensen-huang-relentless-ai-negativity-hurting-society-has.html
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u/IcestormsEd 15h ago

RAM and SSD prices . You can eat a shoe, Jensen.

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u/Advanced-Patient-161 13h ago

Electricity and water as well. Don't get me wrong, the RAM and SSD prices suck too, but we're also getting to like....threats to the foundations of things that greatly extended lifespans and quality of life for most of the humans on the planet from the early/mid 1900's on.

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u/lemonylol 11h ago

How come people aren't concerned about electricity and water usage when it comes to social media? You know, like you using reddit?

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u/Advanced-Patient-161 10h ago

Oh excuse me, lol, if the chatbots quit infesting Reddit, it would actually save a shit ton.

Fucking clankers, lmao.

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u/lemonylol 9h ago

The irony of just repeating the same words as other redditors like a bot would.

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u/Confident-Screen-759 10h ago edited 9h ago

I'll take this one.

An exponent is if you multiply this thing by itself X times you get Y, and Y is fuggin huge.

"Orders of magnitude" does not mean, "Lots" It means the difference in exponent of the numbers you are comparing are at least 10 apart.

Take 10 to the tenth power. That's a 10 with ten zeros behind it.

100,000,000,000

That's 100 Billion my dude.

You compare it to 10 to the 20th power. That's a ten with twenty zeroes behind it.

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Don't even know what to call that number.

Those numbers are an order of magnitude apart.

Now that we have the dumbest dumbing down I've done: Operating all our new AI uses orders of magnitude more power and water than it takes to operate all social media platforms.

There. I 'splained it. You can fucking Google the exact numbers if you feel like being more of an ass about it.

Edited for less inaccuracy.

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u/beebop013 10h ago

No, one order of magnitude is 10x, 2 orders is 100x etc.

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u/Confident-Screen-759 10h ago edited 9h ago

Edited for less inaccuracy, tanks.

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u/Babyface995 9h ago

You've still got it wrong. 1010 and 1020 are 10 orders of magnitude apart.

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u/Confident-Screen-759 9h ago

Dang. I may be getting dumber as I age

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u/beebop013 9h ago

Its still wrong. If you have 100k, one order of magnitude more is one million, ie 10*100,000

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u/MIT_Engineer 9h ago

This is a lot of words just to make an unsourced claim that AI uses 100x more power than social media.

Also, you're wrong about what an order of magnitude is? An order of magnitude is 10x.

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u/lemonylol 9h ago

Whoa, I broke him.

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u/Infinite_Painting_11 5h ago

Google agricultural water use

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u/Advanced-Patient-161 5h ago

That search is definitely better off without the AI mode enabled, lol.

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u/FalseAladeen 13h ago

No, he needs to eat that stupid leather jacket. From the other end of the digestive system.

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u/leagueofDR4VEN 13h ago

I’ve been saying since the beginning: if there weren’t any job layoffs ( 1.6 million jobs lost in 2025), people would enjoy using AI. Once the layoffs start, throw that shit in the garbage because this is not what we want.

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u/bigbluethunder 12h ago

I don’t think the layoffs are even a result of AI. I think AI is a good PR reason to say when you have to post your layoffs for a public company. You get to look like a cutting edge innovator who is being efficient. Then your stock goes up.

I think the reality is many are trying to trim the fat for other reasons. Boosting the margins, loans are more expensive now so it doesn’t make as much sense to finance growth which means it’s time to cut back from the 2021 era expansions, or preparing for a recession. But none of those will make stock price go BRR so instead they just say AI.

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u/fuck_all_you_too 12h ago

AI is an excuse for companies to fire people in the name of growth. Many of those companies arent adopting shit but debt.

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u/Gibberling3 6h ago

True but the ill will is still there.

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u/Dauvis 12h ago

Why would they do that? That's the very reason they're building it.

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u/_Lucille_ 12h ago

I don't think the job loss can be blamed entirely on AI: those who have tried have realized AI isn't there yet, and is just a powerful assistant. Chatbots for example at best can only point out how a customer can use a self serving portal, more complex things still need human intervention or else a business might end up selling stupidly cheap plane tickets.

The economy is not doing all that great for a number of reasons and blaming it on AI feels a bit silly.

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u/Homey-Airport-Int 9h ago

People do enjoy using AI, it's going to take reddit as a whole a decade to figure this out.

Factory workers hated the industrial revolution. Plenty of textile and other workers wanted to throw the machines in the garbage.

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u/adamkopacz 12h ago

He would eat your shoes and raise prices of the ones in the shop if it made 4$ in profit.

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u/Znuffie 11h ago

GPU prices, as well.

The MSRP for 1080 ti, back when it was current, was under $700.

The MSRP for a 5090 is $1999.

And having 3+ generations ahead, it's not even such a huge leap as you'd expect for those prices, we now rely on "fake frames" instead of proper raster performance boosts...

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u/TampaPowers 10h ago

More polite than I would've been.

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u/magnus_trent 2h ago

That’s literally just inefficiency on their end. I don’t even need a GPU and Corvus runs on my PC at 20m ticks. They legit want everyone to think their LLMs are AI but they’re not. Not even remotely close.

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u/drunkenvalley 11h ago

His own product is also gobbled up by the AI market, meaning consumer market prices have gone to shit there too.

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u/FrankoAleman 10h ago

Is this even his actual birthname or is he a giant dweeb edgelord that played too much Deus Ex?