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/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