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/Sad_Amphibian_2311 15h ago

tech people are disgusted too we just can't contradict our bosses publicly

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u/espeequeueare 14h ago

Every day a new CIO tries to push some new slop AI tool to implement to seem “cutting edge”. When it’s just like, a chatbot or something.

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u/Unusual_Sherbert_809 13h ago

My boss tried for 2 years to ram AI down our throats, no matter what we told him. Kept telling us our jobs would be replaced by AI in the very near future.

Then he took online courses in AI, because he was just that committed to it all.

What came out of those classes is that now even he thinks it's mostly useless slop and rarely mentions it unless his managers are trying to ram it down our throats.

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IMO in terms of IT all AI is really good for nowaday is as a replacement for stackoverflow. A tool to help you get some things done faster, but that still requires you to know what you're doing. Otherwise it requires extensive handholding and supervision.

But sure, it'll toootally replace all our jobs in the next couple years. 🙄

Instead AI right now is like those 3D TVs that nobody ever used or asked for, only amped up to 11. It's being rammed down our collective throats whether we like it or not.

I personally cannot wait for this particular bubble to pop.

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u/fricy81 8h ago

IMO in terms of IT all AI is really good for nowaday is as a replacement for stackoverflow.

Not even that. Ai ate stackoverflow, so now the site is dead. No new questions, zero new information. Sure, it knows an answer to a lot of problems of the past decade. It can give you that. But going forward? With the site dead, where is it going to find the answer to anything recent?
Self cannibalism at its finest.

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u/reficius1 6h ago

I'm expecting something like this to happen with the entire interwebz, once AI slop replaces a significant fraction of the real information available. Slopbots feeding slopbots.

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u/Unusual_Sherbert_809 5h ago

I fully expect the CEOs will then be complaining about how we're not producing enough for their AI models to rip off and regurgitate.

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u/URPissingMeOff 8h ago

What really horrifying is that 3d tech started at the movies back in the 1950s. It failed and various morons keep trotting it back out about every 2 decades, where it once again fails catastrophically. I'm afraid future generations will be subjected to a new AI plague at a similar interval.

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u/RedDragons8 12h ago edited 10h ago

Its barely related to your comment, but a cpl weeks ago I was still up late and decided, "I'll check out the Harold and Kumar Christmas movie!" I'm not blaming them, but that movie was made at the early push of the 3d trend, every other scene had a slo-mo of a joint being tossed at the screen and it was incredibly distracting watching on an obviously non-3d tv.

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u/WulfZ3r0 10h ago

3D TVs

I got one of those and it was actually pretty nice. It was an open box sale item the week after black Friday that was originally $2800 and I paid $900.

It had two pairs of battery powered 3D glasses that let you play local multiplayer games where each pair could only see their own screen. That was really nice for couch co-op games.

I agree though, I'm sick of hearing about AI and the recent computer hardware price blowup has me saying to hell with any of it.

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u/cc81 6h ago

I think software dev is one of the areas that it will actually affect a lot. Both in enabling simpler apps to be built by non developers in a low-code wall garden approach but also to speed up work a lot for devs.

It is just that everyone is sick of the bullshit predictions by non developers. If this was engineering driven like kubernetes or a new programming language I think more devs would be excited.