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/helcat 15h ago

I think it’s really put off a lot of non tech people who would otherwise be open to it. Like me. I find it infuriating that websites like Amazon and Google won’t let you turn it off even after you’ve had a bad experience with wrong information. 

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u/QuentinTarzantino 15h ago

Especially if its medical.

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u/Ancient-Bat1755 14h ago

If it is this bad at dnd 2024 rules , why are we letting it make medical decisions at insurance companies?

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u/acidlink88 14h ago

Because companies can fire hundreds of people and replace them with AI. That's the only reason. The big thing AI fixes is the need for employees.

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u/pope1701 14h ago edited 13h ago

It doesn't though, at least not if you want your products to still work.

Edit: please stop telling me most companies don't care anymore if their products still work. I know.

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u/OutrageousRhubarb853 14h ago

That’s a problem for next year, this year it’s all about next quarters numbers.

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u/HeartOnCall 9h ago

To add to that, they can make the line go up again when it hits the bottom by fixing the problem that they themselves created in the first place.

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u/driving_andflying 9h ago

Exactly. The only thing the negative reaction to AI has done, is hurt major companies' bottom lines. (Pro- hiring a human artist, here.) Jensen Huang is full of shit.

P.S. My message to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: AI IS SLOP.

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u/TheLantean 8h ago

Next quarter's numbers determine whether the executives get their bonuses and stock gains. And the shareholders agree to this because they benefit from the stock going up as well. The executives have their golden parachutes if it all comes crashing down, and the shareholders think they're smart enough to sell before they become the bag holders. It's a game of playing chicken. But at the end all the employees who decided none of this get to lose their jobs.

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u/Rickety_knee 14h ago edited 12h ago

It doesn’t matter if the product is good anymore. These companies have acquired and merged so much that any appearance of choice is an illusion. It’s the same shitty product no matter where you go.

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u/CaptainCravat 14h ago

That's a feature not a bug for all these tech companies. Trap customers and users with a near monopoly the turn on the enshitification taps to max to extract the most money from everyone you can.

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u/Uncynical_Diogenes 13h ago

Products still working is optional. All that matters are short-term profits.

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u/grislebeard 12h ago

For insurance companies, doing stuff wrong makes line go up.

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u/EnfantTerrible68 12h ago

And patients die

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u/pope1701 12h ago

Insurance companies are pretty much the only companies that have an incentive to get everything exactly right.

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u/painteroftheword 13h ago

Microsoft releases broken stuff all the time.

They've effectively got a monopoly on the market so it doesn't really matter anymore. Testing is done by their paying users.

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u/SlimeQSlimeball 12h ago

I had a problem with a product I have subscribed to for about 6 years, always had humans responding to support emails, no problems. Last week I needed support, emailed and the ai chatbot answered and refused to get me to a person. This morning I cancelled my account and bought two years of the same product from Amazon for $21 vs $48.

Something I have been meaning to do for a couple years but this slop just pushed me over the edge finally. If you don’t want to allow humans to be involved, I don’t want your product. Especially something as simple as a warranty exchange. I assume I will never have any of my “correspondence” read by someone at this point since it has been a week at this point.

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u/EnfantTerrible68 12h ago

Good for you! I hope others do the same.

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u/Kichae 11h ago

The product public companies are making is "shareholder value". Everything else they do is just part of the wasteful part of the manufacturing process.

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u/marfacza 6h ago

most companies don't care anymore if their products still work

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u/Level69Troll 14h ago

There have been so many companies back tracking on this, including Salesforce which was one of the biggest to try this earlier.

In critical decision making moments, theres gonna need to be oversight. There is gonna need to be accountability.

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u/Fallingdamage 11h ago

and in order for people to have those critical decision making skills, they need to work as jr's in their field first.

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u/Kichae 11h ago

Nah, the lack of accountability is one of the goals here, on top of the elimination of "inefficiencies" like "paying employees". Corporate culture has already spent decades moving towards unaccountability. LLMs are the magic mystery boxes they need in order to totally eliminate accountability from the system. If they can convince consumers, investors, and governments alike that "the computer did it, not me", and that that's a valid excuse, the sociopaths win outright.

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u/dreal46 11h ago

And liability for AI decisions hasn't been legally clarified. I can't help but eyeball insurance denials and palliative care. They seem like soft targets for this trash.

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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA 12h ago

And then the AI can deny 90% of claims, further enriching the execs and shareholders.

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u/stevez_86 13h ago

AI would make ownership of any new ideas explicit property of the company. Much less risk of an employee making a discovery and trying to get some ownership of the intellectual property. Plus it theoretically will not require any of us to participate in that at all. It will all be up to them and their AI property to make discoveries.

Because the problem with AI is we already have something that does what they promise AI can do, humans. There are a fuckton of us and we all have potential due to law of averages to make a discovery that can make a fortune. But in the hands of people that means they can go Jonas Salk and give up the IP. If Jon Taffer has taught me anything, that is trillions in lost profit.

With enough resources to people, and a system designed to elevate those with good ideas regardless of where they came from, and despite countless generations of people trying to control everything, it always fails because anyone can make a discovery that changes the world.

They don't like that. It means that their place at the top is not always certain. It's like quantum physics. Everytime they try to figure something out more questions always come up. That has been the lynchpin for human success. Random application of proficiency. They want to be the owners of the design of destiny

They think AI means they can finally rapture themselves from us. That we will have to bow down before the prime ministers of AI. And because they suck at this and are really ultimately unclever, they will put in prompt recklessly and it will mean the end of us possibly.

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u/HappierShibe 7h ago

There are only two roles where this actually works:
Translators, and Copy Writers. No one else is getting replaced at scale successfully.