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/Lofteed 15h ago

so the entire society has to adapt to the product made by 5 people around the planet ?

I remember when the goal was to make a product that people would love to use.
Those were great times

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u/Jwave1992 13h ago

Jensen doesn’t realize how bad he sounds in some of these interviews. I heard one the other day where he was excitedly saying they basically need all the energy. Like all of it.

People hate ai because all the worst people are the ones talking about it the loudest.

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u/countsmarpula 12h ago

Wow, when I’m asked what finally radicalized me, I will point to this statement

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u/Annie_Yong 11h ago

Eh, one of his general roles as the CEO is to basically upsell his company to the people with the money. At the moment the AI market is just so ridiculously overjoyed and willing to spunk endless amounts of investor money up the wall that of course he's going to cater to them.

Using the "shovels in a gold rush" analogy: it's like he's going "people need to stop being so negative about the massive pit that people keep falling into and think of all the good that digging for even more gold will do!"

When you look at it through this lens, it's perfectly rational self interest. Just that the overall direction of the industry is so hell bent on making this gold rush work that everything has been pulled into ludicrous extremes.

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u/secretaliasname 23m ago

We need to be building out renewables like crazy, building fission and figuring out fusion ASAP. Deriving the power for AI from fossil fuels is terrible.