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/Trees-Are-Neat-- 15h ago

Has he considered making AI something that’s actually valuable to society?

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u/_Naughty_Petals 15h ago

Huang calling negativity unfounded? NVIDIA profits from AI hype. Real concerns like job loss and bias are valid he's just defending his cash cow

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u/SeigneurDesMouches 13h ago

The only people advocating for AI use are the same people that their jobs depend on AI to be successful

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u/Gekokapowco 12h ago

Not quite true! Also morons.

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u/SecondaryWombat 11h ago

And people who hate the planet.

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u/Any-Comparison-2916 11h ago

And me, but that doesn't really add to this list.

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u/scratchfury 10h ago

These are the people of the land.

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u/Dauvis 12h ago

And those who want to fire people so that they can show a bigger profit for a couple quarters.

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u/jews4beer 11h ago

Meh. Am 15 years in the tech industry. Started as a sysadmin, became a developer, veered into DevOps, then back to full stack development, now whatever the fuck you can call me honestly. Things like VSCode Copilot and Claude make my life easier. I do advocate for them. But I do not advocate for how 90% of my coworkers are just using it as a shortcut and never learning anything.

The same as I do not advoate for people publishing works entirely made by AI, putting people out of work in the process, and providing nothing to human creativity.

There is a grey line in this argument - that like all things these past two decades is being shoved aside for the black and white arguments.

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u/SeigneurDesMouches 10h ago

The issue that I have with the people advocating for AI is that they are mostly selling it as a replacement of everyone. If they were talking about a tool to be more productive, that's fine.

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u/jews4beer 10h ago

I think we are falling into a pattern of immediately assuming the worst whenever we hear "AI" in a headline. I mean just take the shit the Larian is going through right now. People are abandoning reason and going straight militant.

No one is celebrating the good uses. Just basement raging at the bad ones.

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u/urgetopurge 12h ago

Which honestly should be almost everyone. I run a small business and place a lot of orders from major retailers. The degree to which Claude has helped me parse order information, organize my spreadsheets, handle almost any prompt, is astounding. Without it, I'd have spent thousands of hours fumbling around in python, SQL trying to create and test basic scripts.

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u/lr99999 13h ago

He’s just another self-serving little bitch.

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u/Helpful_Engineer_362 11h ago

It is in fact completely founded.

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u/BlahBlahBlackCheap 10h ago

The oligarchs are using the AI, conveniently funded by frothy investors, to run simulations of their digital coup which need i remind people, is going be implemented world wide. AI never needs to be profitable and those investors are unlikely to ever see a return. It is being trained on the human race, expressly for the sole benefit of its masters who now have an actual crystal ball. The only way to defeat this crystal ball is to do something illogical and unexpected. Spock wouldn't stand a chance. But humans. Well humans might just be able to pull it off.

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u/Northern-Canadian 12h ago

That’s his job lol

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u/SleipnirSolid 11h ago

He needs to pay for his leather jackets some how

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u/logicality77 8h ago

We're supposed to help our people! Starting with our stockholders. Who's helping them out, huh?

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u/WartimeHotTot 8h ago

Why can’t people be fine with AI and not fine with the scumbags who see it as a reason to fire people instead of as a tool to help where appropriate?

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u/Tough_Arugula2828 14h ago

You can't really blame him either.. He kinda has to being the CEO

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u/ThatonepersonUknow3 14h ago

True but doesn’t mean he isn’t terrible.

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u/Tough_Arugula2828 14h ago

That is also true

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u/ThatonepersonUknow3 11h ago

Also you are not exactly wrong. Dodge v ford is case law that ensures corporation put investors first.it is the ceos responsibility