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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/66275521

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[–] shirro@aussie.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

Kids around here still play on the streets. And roam around town on their bikes and on foot. Cars drive accordingly. That's not the message the auto industry pushed and got adopted most places unfortunately.

Companies do influence society often for the worse. The problem is people listen to this shit and just accept it. There needs to be a counter narrative. People need to be able to live good fulfilling lives that provide healthy challenges, physically and mentally. The car ruined our physical spaces. Corporate LLMs are coming for our mental spaces.

[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Why isn't that whenever a CEO gets publicity they start making the absolute stupidest takes.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

How old is that fuck? Cars have been around forever.

There were literal streets, wtf he talking about. You wouldn't be playing in the streets before cars came around. Were you playing on the cobblestone?

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The car example doesn't show what he wants it to show... In reality, the automobile industry fucked us all over by making places dangerous that were once safe. In reality, many towns and cities would be better off if they had more walking and bicycling areas and less space for cars. The problem is, it's hard to undo the damage in urban design that played out over the last century.

In other words, don't buy into this AI bullshit, because once you let it take over, it's hard to replace. That's the real message.

... And I'm not saying all new technology is bad. But this is a bubble, and like all bubbles, it's mostly full of vaporware.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 1 points 5 hours ago

Seems like an apt metaphor.

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

His company is the only one actually making money off this nonsense.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-openai-financials/

“When cars came along”… Is he 150 years old?

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 11 points 13 hours ago

What were streets for before cars came along?

This guy has been sniffing too much black leather polish.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 9 hours ago

Short everything this man touches.

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 10 points 15 hours ago

Is he claiming to be older than cars?

[–] LostWanderer@fedia.io 8 points 15 hours ago

ROFL He is so fucking desperate to make LLMs fetch, I love that there are all these stupid quotes to throw back in his face later on to harm any credibility people claims this idiot has.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I have no issues with society changing. How about making fortunes bigger than one billion dollars taxable? Without deductions, of course.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Exactly at that level.

[–] LightDelaBlue@jlai.lu 21 points 22 hours ago

but cars was pushed by lobby by destroying citys planing and public trasnport. taking car as example is BAD.

[–] TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 15 points 21 hours ago

And much like how we would warn each other about incoming cars while playing in the street, now we warn each other when stuff is made with ai.

[–] untorquer@quokk.au 48 points 1 day ago

Capitalist: "You should use my product"

Groundbreaking.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 73 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The worst metaphor possible lmao.

[–] Naich@piefed.world 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's actually a really good metaphor.

[–] galoisghost@aussie.zone 28 points 1 day ago

It really is, just not the way Jensen Huang thinks it is.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 18 hours ago

More accurate for sure

This guy had been letting his ai think for him a bit too much.

[–] gajahmada@awful.systems 17 points 23 hours ago

"You need to buy more shovels !" shout the shovel maker.

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 day ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

AI is great! I work in programming and when I got thrown into this project ... AI went down for two hours and I was in a rush so I asked my coworkers that have been working on a project for four weeks how auth worked they and had no idea, they didn't know how the application fucking worked, nor what we used redis or the db for or any of this shit. It's so good losing the respect of my all my coworkers! /s

[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 5 points 21 hours ago

Or when you just try to set up the local dev environment and that shit doesn't work because they added some bearer tokens needed for auth to a Claude.md file that I obviously didn't read.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 13 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

This guy had his childhood before cars were a thing? How old is he?

[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 26 points 22 hours ago

He was born in 1963, a time when the Netherlands were as car-focused as the USA. When Huang was a child, the number of parents killed by cars outraged Dutch parents, and they mounted a years-long protest campaign under the slogan "Stop murdering children" (but in Dutch). The protests were big enough that the government listened and changed Dutch transport infrastructure in major, fundamental ways. They built lots and lots of bike lames as well as investing heavily in buses and trains. The overall result was aaddive turn away from cars, and streets are once again safe fir children to play in.

[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago

Normalising the destruction of human environments is the USP of AI. You got it, buddy.

You have to use my product or I'll cry!!!!!

Vibes AI-Karen is giving right now.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm nearly 40 and I play still play basketball in the street from time to time. WTF is this guy talking about?

[–] JimFox@lemmy.zip 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Mostly distopian-like horseshit with a big fuck you shaped cherry on the top. Fuckin Jensen...

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

I haven't seen that cherry trick before.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Veeery much depends on where you live...

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It always has.

You're not going to be rolling out a basketball hoop into the cul-de-sac if you live on the 10rh floor of a New York City apartment complex.

But that type of thing still happens millions of times every week across the globe.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Right, and this commenter fails to understand that people have different frames of reference, and perspectives, and experiences. It's an analogy.

Or rather, I think they know what he means, and they're just intentionally acting unwise.

Either way, Nvidia can go f—k themselves. Glad I went fully team AMD with this last PC build.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I have bad news for you. Lisa Su has been cozying up to Trump for increased AI spend and lax regulations too.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago
[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 21 points 1 day ago

Ah yeah, let's listen to the company who's infinite money glitch relies on AI sticking around to tell us what has to change

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago

In the right countries you can still play in the street, even while cars exist

Then again, you live in the USA z so no surprise there and good on you for using an example of something bad and portray it again as something great. Goes well with your AI talk

[–] green_goglin@thelemmy.club 6 points 21 hours ago
[–] kboos1@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What a stupid analogy. He should be fired for making such a stupid analogy, it's like if he can't make a proper analogy then he probably can't figure other simple things

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 14 points 1 day ago

You're absolutely right about that! ✨

[–] Dryad@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

He had AI write his rebuttal.

[–] treehugger6@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

You want some coffee with that pretzel?