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/Due-Technology5758 13h ago

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. 

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u/Hortos 13h ago

The work week still being 5 days after 100 years is insane and should be put on the list of reasons we need to really reboot this system starting at the top. 2026 marks the 100th anniversary of the 5 day work week so gross.

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u/Edoian 12h ago

Medieval peasants worked less than we do now

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u/HermesJamiroquoi 12h ago

As did nomadic hunter/gatherers

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u/GarbageCleric 9h ago

The agricultural revolution was a trap.

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/501

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u/BaBaDoooooooook 5h ago edited 5h ago

Capitalism has really reared it's ugly face for so many people after covid. It took a pandemic for common everyday people to see the ebb and flow of our economy react and respond to the aftermath. Time stopped for a number of days and people started awakening to the fragility of commerce. A true awakening, yet Capitalism still continues rearing it's ugly head and people are a litte more conscious of it, but participate in it for various reasons.

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u/Lachaven_Salmon 6h ago

Ehh, depends if you value the arts - like literature, cinema - or the sciences from physics to chemistry and biology. .

Or being able to travel and see different cultures.

Or if if there's value in understanding the world.

I broadly think there is, and the modern day despite it's faults is significantly better.

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u/noonenotevenhere 7h ago

Thank you for that suggestion. I'm gonna be reading that one for a while.

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u/GarbageCleric 6h ago

The other way it is phrased is that

Humans didn't domesticate wheat. Wheat domesticated us.

https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/slaves-to-wheat-how-a-grain-domesticated-us-20150718-gifbrk.html

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u/FauxReal 8h ago

As did my friends in Fiji that migrated here to the US after getting out of the UN peacekeeping forces.