Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AI doomerism has 'done a lot of damage' and is 'not helpful to society'
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said there's a real cost to AI doomerism.
- Without naming names, Huang blamed "very well-respected people" for end-of-the-world narratives.
- Huang said the rhetoric is "scaring people" from making investments in the improvement of AI.
https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-jensen-huang-ai-doomerism-damage-investments-2026-1Open linkView original on lemmy.nz242
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Fuck Jensen and his shitty jackets.
Seriously, what the fuck is he wearing? A patent alligator skin jacket? Fuck you dude!
It's made with bits of real panther!
As someone currently running both an AMD processor and graphics card, AMD absolutely talks out of their ass. Constantly. The only reason they're not viewed as badly as NVIDIA is because NVIDIA has such a dominant stranglehold on the market. If AMD were in their position, they'd be doing exactly the same thing.
It’s not enough, guys. Just about everyone with a 401(k) or a pension is giving us truckloads of money, but it’s not enough. We’re cooking the books, but it’s not enough. We’re paying OpenAI to buy our GPUs and IT’S STILL NOT FUCKING ENOUGH.
It must be the AI doomers. Those morons, those Luddites! AI has amazing benefits, like agreeing with people so hard they go insane, or counting the letters in “strawberry”, or undressing children! And those people think the same technology could cause the end of the world?
Those doomers are definitely the paper jam in the money printer. We gotta get rid of them. Then the money can really flow in!
It really is a fucking sickness. It's just never enough.
AI doomerism will continue until consumer memory supply improves.
"I'm making so much money! I don't really get all you whiners. You're really damaging our vibe over here."
Fuck off.
You know your product is good when you blame "customers" for not using it.
We're supposed to be the customer and the competition. Very normal
I really don't think that's it, Jensen. I think investors are realizing that it's a bubble and that investments are becoming increasingly unlikely to realize returns as it becomes more and more obvious that AI has almost no path to profitability outside of niche use cases, rather than the automation revolution that silicon valley has been hyping it up to be.
Ehhh, yeah. No Jensen. Get back to me with that once your stock is 10 bucks a share and I'll believe that nvidia is suffering for anti AI sentiment.
How about, you focus on GPUs that don't cost 3 months income? Better yet, pivot to making memory as well as graphics chips. FFS.
They design graphics chips; they don't manufacture them. Nvidia designing memory wouldn't help with the RAM shortage when all the manufacturers are already running at capacity.
Wasn't aware of that, but now that you mention it, my own RTX 3060 is an MSI Ventus.. (why did I not latch onto this one? Geez, sometimes I'm dim.)
The pennies, they be dropping..
TIL, thanks!
Not quite. When Nvidia releases a new chip, they'll release a bunch of documentation that indicates how the chip needs to be used. How to configure it. Cooling requirements. Etc. Each Board manufacturer (like MSI) uses this documentation to manufacture the physical boards that you buy.
What OP was referring to is that NVidia doesn't physically have a plant with a bunch of people in bunny suits walking around a clean room. Instead, they contract manufacturers and send the designs for them to build.
It's like how Apple designs phones but Foxconn actually builds them.
Samsung was the manufacturer for the RTX 30-series chips. Then groups like MSI package them for consumers (doing things like adding cooling and outputs).
Jenson Huang is doing a lot of damage there.
Fixed headline for accuracy.
Youre not helpful to the society Jensen. Fucking, purchasing all production capabilities or limited chips, with “imaginary” money, gotten for product NOT YET built, for data-centers NOT YET built for shitty service nobody wants, that eats gallons of water every second.
Fuck Jensen and his cronies.
Speaking of not being helpful to society...
Translation: the plebs are making it hard for me to exploit them and get filthy rich even though I'm a fleshbag that can't take monies to the afterlife.
Kind of tired of reasonable criticism and concerns about the future being labeled "doomerism". It's a thought-terminating cliche from people who are invested in you not thinking about it.
Isn’t his claim that criticism of AI will harm society a kind of doomerism?
Huang’s doomerism doomerism is getting me down!
Agreed
AI doomerim will continue so long as AI continues to shepherd doom
AI is not helpful to society
Jensen Huang: " 😭 I'm not rich enough and it's all your fault!!! 😭 "
Yes, lack of investment is the biggest problem around AI right now.
Bro, trust me, just one billion. One more, just one... really, bro, listen.... just one billion...
Actually, more like one more trillion at this point...
Same dude who said don't learn coding cause AI will do it for you btw.
The same dude who got mostly profits selling GPUs to the AI companies.
AI doomerism typically refers to the belief that AI will rise up against us and kill us all. Given that current "AI" is just a guessing machine, that won't happen, barring substantial breakthroughs. The end-of-the-world narratives are basically marketing for AI, as in, "hey, if this thing got any smarter, it would destroy the world".
Yes exactly thank you for pointing it out. He's not referring to people upset about slop or propaganda or CSAM on X, he is just doing more marketing and pretending that LLMs will somehow stop being chatbots and magically transform into something else that kills us all.
Those words were addressed to Geoffrey Hinton, who once said this
sauce
The real doomerism is that AI will take over teaching and we will have a generation that only knows what AI has lied to them about.
AI will be used to target people for death and already has been used as such. Imagine a world where you are incorrectly judged as a problem and executed when in reality you just share a terrorist's handle.
AI will be used to create custom persuasive propaganda on the fly. It will be used to manipulate voting and to help take away our rights. It will be controlled by the uber wealthy and will be their mouthpiece spreading their bullshit far and wide.
Ohh I get it now
AI is doing a lot of damage 🙃
And is not helpful to society.
Real
This guy?
he really likes the snakeskin jacket. Makes him look cool.
That rich assh9le can suck it from behind.
We were on track to useful AI.
Then the MBAs got involved.
Stop spreading CEO rhetoric these people only care about enriching themselves and everything they say is toward that end.
LOOOOLOLOL name something that's done more damage to society in the last 2 years than AI...
Now name something that AI helps, besides tech oligopolists.
"Not helpful for society's elite".
FTFY
Nvidia (which is totally not at all like Enron) CEO Jensen Huang says AI doomerism has 'done a lot of damage' and is 'not helpful to society'
It's afraid!
Let's cry together 😭
Fuck Jensen Huang for making AI worse than any doomer could have ever dreaded
the only good jensen is jensen ackles
Hmmm.
Teen heart throb Jensen Ackles or the mature stud Jensen Ackles?
Inquiring minds want to know.
yes
Jensen is not helpful to society. He's done a lot of damage.
Telling people not to buy my shitty product is really hurtful to my bottom line!
Bitch
AI doomerism has 'done a lot of damage to Corporations' and is 'not helpful to Corporations'
Boohoooo
This guy continuing to breathe seems pretty bad for humanity.
Hopefully AI won't replace my job next month.
I've seen slopfluencers that are associated with Nvidia push this EXACT line that Jensen has almost on command, it's so uncanny. They will defend their points and call your critique disinformation if you point out that the data centre buildup and centralisation of power in the hands of 5 companies is bad for our societies
Says the guy happily driving up prices of computer parts while adding to the massive resource suck and garbage heap that is AI.