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Jensen Huang, commander of a trillion-dollar computing hardware empire, believes everyone should stop being so negative about AI and all the ways it can potentially harm civilization, because it is a “destructive narrative” that is “not useful to society.” techspot reports.
Nvidia chief made this comment during an event recent episodes In the No Priors podcast, in which he dismissed serious predictions for the future of AI as nothing more than science fiction.
Huang said, “I think we’ve done a lot of harm to very respectable people by portraying a catastrophic narrative, an end-of-the-world narrative, a science fiction narrative.” “And I appreciate that many of us grew up and enjoyed science fiction, but it’s not helpful. It’s not helpful to people. It’s not helpful to industry. It’s not helpful to society. It’s not helpful to governments.”
“Destructive messages cause policy, and that policy can impact the industry in some way,” he said.
Slightly complicating his point, Huang cautioned that he does not completely reject everything AI critics say.
“It’s too simplistic to say that whatever the subversives are saying is irrelevant,” Huang said. “That’s not true. There are a lot of sensible things being said,” he said, neglecting to provide any examples.
Nvidia’s chips are essential for training AI models, and huge demand for them has driven the chip maker to a valuation of nearly $5 trillion. To keep the gravy train going, Huang has sometimes been even more of an AI booster than the actual AI companies. When Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei caution Huang, that AI could wipe out half of entry-level white-collar jobs in the next five years competition Amodei was just spreading fear to show that Anthropic was the only company responsible enough to create AI.
And to be fair to Huang, this is a good point, too many apocalyptic-sounding warnings of AI risks are a distraction from its more mundane issues. Still, Huang himself has made several more bizarre claims about AI, such as reportedly telling his employees that they are “crazy” if they don’t use AI to do everything they do — never mind his absurd declaration that AI won’t take your job, but will instead make you work harder.
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