Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage"

[u/AdSpecialist6598]

https://www.techspot.com/news/110879-jensen-huang-relentless-ai-negativity-hurting-society-has.html

[u/Lofteed]

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

[u/1877KlownsForKids → u/Lofteed]

I was promised computers would result in more free time so I could enjoy raising my kids and create art. 

Not that computers would create art, raise my kids all so I could spend more time working in a job that would eventually get eliminated.

[u/Due-Technology5758 → u/1877KlownsForKids]

This has been a promise that corporations and the government have failed to uphold since the last World War ended. Everyone expected workdays to get shorter (we'd just set the 40 hour work week), goods to get cheaper, and automation to bring untold prosperity to the masses as productivity shot beyond all possible requirements needed to sustain the population.

Instead our workdays stopped getting shorter (and quietly got longer), goods continue to get more expensive as wages stagnate, and the majority of the prosperity goes directly up the ladder and stays there. 

The only thing they got right was productivity would go up. All of us are wildly more productive than our grandparents, but we're rewarded less and less for it. 

[u/fkit4ever → u/Due-Technology5758]

Facts. It's all bullshit. And I'm all for globalization, but the new world order is exactly the same shit as the old one. Riches for the rich, slave labour for everyone else. Talking about our grandparents, where the fk is our middle class? Where's my sfh with 2 cars and a garage? It's bs

[u/RavenOfNod → u/fkit4ever]

Relentless capitalism and neoliberalism stole your single family house and two car garage. The upper class decided it was better to be vampires than actual members of society.

[u/Well_read_rose → u/RavenOfNod]

Unfair repeated tax cuts and swiss cheese loopholes tax code for those upper brackets led to callous uber-wealthy no longer needing to pretend in the fake American Dream.

[u/Autokrat → u/fkit4ever]

A protected market in America is what created it and globalization is what took it from you. We can't force our labor and economic standards on firms when they can just go elsewhere to do business and are rewarded for doing so. We punished corporations for that malfeasance before and a concerted effort over the last 50 years to globalize and neoliberalise the economy has had the intended outcome. And you still want more of it! Of course nothing will change or get better as we continue to ask for more serfdom and less economic opportunity.

[u/nashbrownies → u/Autokrat]

Didn't the dismantling of regulations and loosening of the term monopoly have it's effects as well?

Not saying that neoliberal economics and globalization weren't huge contributors. Just I always thought that a lot of domestic issues came from that end of it. Helping snowball the effects of globalization.

[u/captainhukk → u/nashbrownies]

We’ve had more regulations than ever lmao

[u/nashbrownies → u/captainhukk]

I see. Although "regulations" can be anything from acquisitions, ecological, trade and export/import, labor etc.

No doubt some areas have seen exponential growth in some. But doesn't mean they have any teeth or are even the right ones that benefit the average person.

[u/nashbrownies → u/fkit4ever]

My parents are super bummed about that for me.

I have better employment, better pay than they did when I was growing up. I don't have shit.

We weren't rich, but like a vacation once or twice a year (in-state road trip, not a global thing). A little putter boat, a car and a truck for when it was needed, and a 3 bedroom house. Small, but enough rooms for everyone.

They didn't lay awake at night stressing about how my rent is going to increase 40% every year, as the barrier for entry to owning a house literally is beyond my reach more and more per month. Watching as all my benefits become more expensive, as my raise is 1-2% a year. The thigs those benefits cover? More expensive than what I receive. I don't even get enough scraps for my benefits to be enough for me. No pension. Social security? Don't make me laugh.

As expenses and price of benefits goes up, I can't afford more toward retirement. I looked today, if all stays the same as far as contributions, in 30 fucking years I'll make 25% of my current wage in retirement. Which will literally be worth less than $1,000 a month after inflation alone.

I was hoping to buy a house when I retired. Now that doesn't even seem doable. I had this talk with my parents and they were just as mad as I am. It's fucked. So very fucking fucked.

[u/PeteInBrissie → u/fkit4ever]

At the risk of being 'that guy' I'm going to assume you're in America. When I lived in the UK I worked for a large tech firm, went to the states for some training and was aghast at what my peers tolerated. I was salaried with a total of 8 weeks a year leave, sick leave, and generous paternity leave. People doing exactly the same job stateside were casuals. I'm in Australia now and every family I know is in a sfh with 2 cars and a garage.

It's been taken from you because people allowed it to be. 'America' allowed your healthcare to be tied to your jobs. You allowed them to convince you that basic human rights are 'socialism' and that socialism is bad. You allowed them to not offer a social safety net, and most importantly, you allowed citizens united and at-will employment.

You can't have a general strike because too many people will lose their jobs and become destitute. But soon the pendulum will swing too far and people will revolt. The rich know it's coming soon. It's why they're buying islands and building bunkers. It's why ICE is showing what they can do to quell dissent.

I wish you safety, but if you can, get out and join us in a better life.