Q&A with Jensen Huang on AI creating more jobs than it destroys, pushing back against AI doomerism, Chinese open models, the Hugging Face acquisition, and more
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Discussion
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@skupor
Scott Kupor
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Worth a listen - @JensenHuang on the AI road forward https://open.spotify.com/...
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@_nathancalvin
Nathan Calvin
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Interesting back and forth. Ezra describes the HF incident, Jensen says “well they shouldn't release the product.” Ezra says “this product wasn't released,” and Jensen's response is that if they say they can't contain their experiments then “we have to shut the labs down”
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@edmundlee
Edmund Lee
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Notable that @JensenHuang head of the business that's fueling Wall Street's current boom and the trillions of dollars flowing into the new AI economy is not talking to @nytimes business or tech reporter but Opinion columnist @ezraklein https://www.nytimes.com/...
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@mattzeitlin
Matthew Zeitlin
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tbd if he's a handmaiden to human extinction but I do like how Jensen is willing to mix it up like this
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@moskov.goodventures.org
Dustin Moskovitz
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He pushes back against doomerism while also calling for the labs to be *fully shut down* if lesser harms occur. — I really think we have to go slow to keep going fast here - nobody wants the future where a catastrophe leads to a full shutdown but we're painting ourselves into a…
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r/slatestarcodex
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Jensen Huang vs. the A.I. Doomers [The Ezra Klein Show]
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r/ezraklein
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Opinion | Jensen Huang vs. the A.I. Doomers
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@tedlieu
Ted Lieu
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Oh
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@hesamation
@hesamation
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🚨Jensen Huang just took a shot at OpenAI, Anthropic and AI doomers: “Nobody's building …
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@edzitron
Ed Zitron
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Jensen Huang calling to shut the labs down. Go off king
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@themidasproj
@themidasproj
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Jensen Huang: “Now, if they say [that their models aren't safe] ... then I think the answer is that we have to shut the labs down.”
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@garrisonlovely
Garrison Lovely
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pretty sensible tbh
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@tjl
Tom Lee
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the most illuminating thing I've ever read about Jensen Huang is that he has 60 direct reports and zero 1-1 meetings. seems relevant as he explains to us the simple, obvious ways the labs should be conducting themselves
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@cojobrien
Connor O'Brien
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In this interview, Jensen claims not to know his own address or phone number.
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@benhayum
Ben Hayum
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And yet: NVIDIA is investing tens of billions into open weight models which...you cannot shut down.
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@michhuan
Michael Huang
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Jensen Huang is correct: “we have to shut the labs down”
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@wilhelmscreamin
@wilhelmscreamin
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jensen huang comes out as part of the radical “shut it all down” flank of ai safety
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@dylanmatt
Dylan Matthews
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Lol Ezra got Jensen to support an AI pause through Facts and Logic
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r/singularity
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Jensen Huang Thinks A.I. Alarmism Has Gone Too Far | The Ezra Klein Show
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r/NVDA_Stock
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Jensen interviewed by Ezra Klein - comments by New York Times readers are crazy negative
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@sudoraohacker
Arun Rao
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I'm confident we can get AI safety to work well the way we have safe software (from Linux to Google Suite) - and yes, if the argument is there's no way to make it safe and it's going to go rogue, let's shut a project or lab down (eg viral gain of function research should never ha…
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@berniesanders
Bernie Sanders
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Jensen Huang, the CEO of leading AI company Nvidia, just said: If an AI model will “damage the world — then I think the answer is that we have to shut the labs down.” My new bill to ban Artificial Superintelligence would do just that. If you can't control it, don't build it.
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@wallstengine
@wallstengine
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on @ezraklein's podcast says AI labs don't need outside help to slow down: “If I believe that I'm about to launch a product that is unsafe, it is completely in my ability, my power and my responsibility to not launch the product.”
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@wallstengine
@wallstengine
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Honestly, this is the kind of mindset you want from the CEO of one of the biggest companies driving AI. $NVDA CEO Jensen Huang: “I'm always worried about the future. That's why I work so hard. I'm a responsible optimist.”
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Timo Seidl
Timo Seidl
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I usually avoid hot takes here, but I just listened to Jensen Huang's interview with Ezra Klein, and I'm honestly shocked and, to use Ezra's word …
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@lwoodhouse
@lwoodhouse
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If Jensen Huang's interview with Ezra is the best case the anti-pause people can come up with, I'm even more convinced we're doomed.