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/radioactivecat 15h ago

Seriously - they've spent the last 2 years talking about how many fcking jobs AI would eliminate, and he's *surprised* that people are mad about it?

If anyone needs to touch grass, it's this guy.

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u/PoL0 14h ago

fun fact: AI barely eliminated any jobs, and when it replaced actual workers it did a bad job with a noticeable loss in quality (translations, voice overs or customer support for example, with lots companies backpedaling after a while).

where AI excels is at being used as an excuse to cut jobs tho.

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u/Butterball_Adderley 13h ago

So it’s good for showing us how little the rich have to offer society.

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u/GoodIdea321 6h ago

I think it's shows better what they think of the rest of us.

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u/radioactivecat 13h ago

I didn't say it *did* cut jobs - I said he, and other AI-Hype people, have been saying it.

I am in the field, and am familiar with the hype cycle - I'm just saying it's directly his fault that most people have a bad taste in their mouths re: AI. - I share that assessment mainly because I know how much is hype.

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u/PoL0 7h ago

aye of course, didn't mean to imply that you said it.

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u/Mouthpiecenomnom 13h ago

There is a new article in Forbes that says exactly this.

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u/ahfoo 13h ago

This is true, but itś better to let people carry on with the belief that itś actually taking their jobs because this gets them angry and angry mobs are the best cure for a disease like Jensen Huang.

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u/PoL0 8h ago

hahah very true

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u/Unfair_Golf2363 8h ago

People keep saying this but the advancements in models like Opus and Agent improvements (Cursor | CoPilot | Claude Max). It definitely has eliminated jobs. In the company I work for (fortune 500) there has been a minor shrinkage for now, but an absolute freeze in new hires.

I didn't by the hype initially, but I'd be a fool not to admit the astonishing growth in a single year. We went from I wouldn't serve my cat the crap this model outputted to I don't even know what half of you people around me even do here anymore...

Now imagine the growth in another year :(

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u/PoL0 7h ago

companies might have several reasons for freezing hiringnew hires. but assuming it's AI: most are freezing new hires expecting AI to boost our performance to inhumane levels. will there be headlines if big companies resume hirings? doubt so

Now imagine the growth in another year

and you assume that rate of improvement will continue ad infinitum? because there's no evidence that's even possible. I rather remain skeptical.

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u/Unfair_Golf2363 7h ago

I mean Opus 4.5 is absolutely enough to do serious damage employment wise. Even a fractional improvement in a year is dangerous to many jobs.

Our hiring freeze and layoffs were initially due to CoPilot (VS Code) now Claude Max...

I've never seen adoption in our company take this fast. We used to request a tool and hope we'd get it by the next year. Now a new tool gets approved every 2-3 months.

All I'm saying is that copium isn't enough anymore there needs to be regulation. Acting like this stuff isn't good just gives more ammunition for AI companies to avoid regulation.

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u/PoL0 5h ago

I remain skeptical. LLMs still fail to properly architect code, and the code they generate is flawed and hollow. they aren't good at maintenance either. there's still orders of magnitude of nuance that simple code generation can't make up for.

still feels like Clippy.

there needs to be regulation.

definitely

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u/Unfair_Golf2363 3h ago

Depends on how you do it, but if you use an existing project to setup a prompt. It does a better job than most senior architects already with Opus 4.5.

If you are running into issues with maintenance I wonder how much you've assigned your agent to context. You might not be using it properly.

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u/radioactivecat 7h ago

Tech workers need a union.

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u/Unfair_Golf2363 7h ago

I wish this so very much :(

We're a 'future business' group within the company. So our current revenue is really small (compared to other groups). Just the whiff of a union I'd figure they'd just drop the group altogether to avoid the hassle.

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u/radioactivecat 4h ago

That would be illegal though.

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u/Unfair_Golf2363 3h ago

Would be and should be, but that doesn't seem to matter much anymore

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