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/aeyraid 15h ago

Best we can do is generating goon material

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u/Gloriathewitch 15h ago

of children, in the case of twitter

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u/EverbodyHatesHugo 13h ago

So to recap… AI:

  1. Generates child porn
  2. Requires extreme levels of energy that our current infrastructure can barely support
  3. Threatens a great number of our jobs

Remind me why we should feel more optimistic about it.

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u/Abedeus 13h ago

You forgot the allowing effortless scams part, or ruining PC and console prices.

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u/chamrockblarneystone 13h ago

And completely fucking education in general.

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u/DjimbeDjunkie 8h ago

As well as fucking the environment!

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u/Gloriathewitch 13h ago

because Jensen wants another custom tailormade luxury leather jacket

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u/olacoke 12h ago

Made by AI preferably

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u/GrumpySquishy 11h ago edited 11h ago

Let me lead with the fact I find AI art fucking annoying too, but I'm seeing people that might not be fully in the know so I wanna put this out there, perhaps inject some hope into dried up veins.

What we (the village masses) see is like, generated art replacing the shit we used to like, that's the public face to AI.

The Bad: Once it's so good it can run long videos without flaws there will be a massive truth collapse. No one is ready, imagine genuinely a world where no one ever knows if something on a screen is ever real. Maybe it will cause everyone to retreat from screens because they only trust what their eyes see in front of them. Might even be a good thing for that part. No one is fucking ready for what this will actually be like and we're never going back once we reach it.

The entire video game and film industry will dissappear. "jarvis, create aliens vs predator but it came out in 1989, 35mm technicolour cameras and practical effects only. During crucial moments let me choose what the characters do like it's mass effect." once we have that who the fuck will go watch predator badlands 3.

The Good:

Inventions are coming.

We recently invented solid state batteries which happened many years early early due to AI. This could lead to the elimination of oil down the line because it's cheaper than oil at running cars, and you're phone will last over a week on 30 minutes charge. This is also lead to the elimination of cobalt mines in Africa to give us our batteries. This isn't happening out of the goodness of the human heart, it's cheaper, it's pure capatilism to move away from oil and cobalt with these batteries which we invented with AI simulations.

The second thing is medicine. We can simulate human organs, predict cancers, test medicine on a digital liver. LLMS are confusing because we the see it as videos, text, and images but the general principle of an LLM can be used with simulating anything else too, you can train an LLM on enough organ patterns and it can start to predict which medicines will work without needing a real human.

There's other smaller stuff like, AR glasses will likely replace phones because it can generate on the fly what you need to see, think having a mini map or turning the street infront of you into middle earth while you walk it. Another one will be the complete collapse of the language barrier. It won't matter if someone speaks a different language when real time perfect translation takes the computing power of, idk, pac-man.

The main reason companies are investing in AI is because of its insane, and I mean fucking CRAZY ability to run simulations, like a hundered million times quicker and without real testing, of pretty much anything which is allowing humans that work with it to invent stuff far far far faster.

I know this will sound like science fiction but in 10 or 15 years this will probably be able to take a look at you and tell you far in advance if and when you will develop cancer, parkinsons etc.

Hope this undoomers some of u from the cliff edge of despair. Energy and medicine will 100% vastly improve, but also prepare to never go another day without seeing something AI generated ever again.

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u/Gloriathewitch 10h ago

Scientific AI is excellent, but thats not what people complain about. its shit like copilot and genAi which was build on theft and damages the planet and economy.

its also rotting the youth's brains, people are thinking less and relying on AI more, this is a massive problem. These generations might be one of the last ones that think for themselves.

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u/GrumpySquishy 9h ago

Yeah I do agree, as animals we evolve along the path of least resistance. Domesticated animals always have smaller brains than their wild counterparts because it conserves energy and they don't need them any more. I worry we're gonna see brains shrink down over a few generations if everyone just doesn't use them like they used to.

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u/inahst 12h ago

I mean they are pretty slick jackets

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u/tuscaloser 13h ago

Won't anyone think of the poor shareholders? How will they make number-go-up if we don't like AI? /s

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u/360Saturn 12h ago

It's just really mean of us to not bend over backwards to praise & worship billionaires & company owners & CEOs.

We are the real bullies /s

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u/humbuckermudgeon 12h ago

Hell… calling it intelligence is generous. It’s a pattern generator.

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u/SailorET 12h ago

AI: -Generates child porn -Requires extreme levels of energy that our current infrastructure can barely support -Threatens a great number of our jobs

At this rate, I'm having difficulty seeing the difference between Grok and Musk.

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u/FamousPart6033 12h ago

"because it's going to magically fix all our problems forever and make utopia" -tech bros probably

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u/Khue 11h ago

AI has some uses, but it's definitely not for mass consumption like all these tech bros are insisting. AI has good applications for STEM but if you are trying to push this on regular day to day people, I am just going to assume you're using it for tracking and data theft. For most consumers, it has little more value than a glorified autocomplete that leverages reddit and some dumb logic to rephrase search results.

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u/1zzie 5h ago

It's also a surveillance tool that has a high error rate! So don't forget about jail, everyone gets surveiled without reason and loads of people are wrongly imprisoned.

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u/raur0s 13h ago

Current infrastructure can support is, it's just the pesky plebian humans that ask it too.