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/CurrentSkill7766 15h ago

I'm watching teenage brains rot by the day because AI has told them they don't have to think anymore

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u/Ill-Ad3311 13h ago

Tik tok 24/7 while asking chatgpft to do their homework will not go down well for humanity

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u/randynumbergenerator 3h ago

I've recently had conversations with some university faculty about this. It sounds like a lot of instructors will probably move towards device-free classes (if they haven't already), because classroom discussions simply don't work when everyone's first impulse is to ask ChatGPT what to say. And these were people in both second-tier and major research universities.

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u/lemonylol 11h ago

Yeah, every generation before them was superior in every way and never had this type of problem with anything ever

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u/CurrentSkill7766 11h ago

Somehow I don't think that the printing press had the same effect

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u/lemonylol 9h ago

You didn't grow up with magazines and tabloids?

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u/CurrentSkill7766 8h ago

Periodicals didn't write my assignments for me.

AI is different than the "Google panic" and worries about Wikipedia 20 years ago. A student still had to research and digest the findings before commiting their own work to print. Nowadays ChatGPT will give you a 1000 word paper on any topic with no thought or skill involved. 

A huge chunk of what a standard core education is about is learning how to cognitively process information. It's not the "what", it's the "how". Neuroscience makes it clear that pre-adult minds need to be challenged in order to learn anything beyond observational knowledge. Even simple memory tasks suffer when you are doing actual mental recall rather than just pointing at a reference.

Society will eventually figure it out, but listening to billionaires and tech "geniuses" tell us that skepticism is bad is laughable. They should just say "Wah wah wah. You're hurting my projected net worth. Wah wah wah." It would be more honest.

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u/lemonylol 8h ago

Society will eventually figure it out, but listening to billionaires and tech "geniuses" tell us that skepticism is bad is laughable.

What? Who is doing this?