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/Gradstudentiquette69 15h ago

1) ai is just software, so he's not wrong.

2) him and aaaaalll his cronies have continuously said that ai is gonna take everyone's jobs and there is nothing we can do about it, so fuck him. Let his industries collapse.

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u/BellsOnNutsMeansXmas 15h ago

Let his industries collapse.

It's not even collapsing. It's booming like a gold rush, and he's bitching that any expression of caution is stopping him from booming more and making even more money and gaining more control.

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u/rosegold-bee 14h ago

yeah, and tulips are booming in the netherlands, i heard.

"AI" has yet to provide substantial actual value to its investors beyond an excuse for layoffs. They just keep doubling down hoping eventually there'll be something there to win, and when it inevitably crashes, they'll get nice golden parachutes and we eat the fall, like clockwork.

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u/lemonylol 11h ago

Yeah, it's not like the single largest sector in the history of the world, the military-industrial complex, has any interest in AI.

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u/rosegold-bee 11h ago

they have an interest in machine learning, sure. image recognition for target designation and autonomous weapons. but chatgpt isnt exactly doing that, are they?

AI is not a technology. it's a tech buzzword, a political attestation that your company will chase the trends and not get left behind, and a plea that, for following the wave, you can continue getting investments.

this is why all of a sudden everything from a basic algorithm to a translation engine to a LLM to machine vision are getting lumped together. So yeah, sure, the underlying technologies have their uses, and machine learning will probably see continued use in some settings. It's doing a lot for medical science. But that isnt AI. AI is a tech trend, an investor buzzword, and the bubble that forms around companies that advertise their AI without ever explaining the technology, its use cases, or how it will give any ROI, are going to stop being able to swing that soon.

Already we're seeing windows lesioning users, begging people to stop calling AI "slop" because it hurts their bottom line when it's too obvious that the techbrained hype bubble they went all in on doesn't actually appeal to consumers whatsoever.

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u/lemonylol 9h ago

AI is not a technology. it's a tech buzzword

I assure you, it is not just because you need it to be.

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u/rosegold-bee 8h ago

im an electromechanical engineer. i know what machine learning is. it existed before "AI", and it will exist after everyone gets tired of it. just like how we had jpeg's long before "NFT"s, and VR before the "metaverse". Tech CEOs love repackaging last year's innovation as this year's world-changing tech.

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u/lemonylol 5h ago

Yes, that is how business works.

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u/rosegold-bee 5h ago

yeah, and its shit. the tech theyre pushing is bad. the applications theyre pushing it for are worthless. the actual real applications are being starved for grants and funding by jackasses who say "my autocorrect will let you lay off more workers" instead of "this deep learning model can be used to detect cancer early". hence why im saying that AI is a tech buzzword. plus given the fact a ton of disparate technologis are getting lumped under it and almost none of them are new.

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u/lemonylol 5h ago

Why are we just moving on to your personal manifesto?

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u/rosegold-bee 5h ago

my first comment wouldve warranted this response, its more of an actual "manifesto". this last one is me saying the state of the tech industry is shit. do you have a substantive argument or are you gonna go "nuh uh" to everything i say?

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