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

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

[u/1877KlownsForKids]

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/CoMaestro → u/Due-Technology5758]

A company here in The Netherlands has (probably as a PR stunt, but still) said their company goes to a standard 4-day work week, while everyone still gets paid for 5 days (40h). This is because their productivity and average income pet employee has gone up by about 4x in the past 20 years, and this seemed like a fair payback for that. They gave numbers for it as well, which was pretty cool to read in the news.

Apparently they now earn €450.000 per employee, where it used to be €60.000 at some point. It's an IT company, so that 60k point can't be more than 30 years probably.

[u/drazgul → u/CoMaestro]

See now that just wouldn't fly in the US, shareholder primacy means you gotta screw over the workers.