At a conference alongside Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang suggested that any AI productivity gains will leave us working more, not less.
    • myrmidex@belgae.social
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      10 days ago

      Even more modern than good old surplus value extraction! We’ve been waiting for over 2 centuries now for these chains to be upgraded (again).

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 days ago

    I have come up with the idea to classify people’s position on work. Who wants to work and thinks that work is a good thing for humans, is politically right, and who doesn’t want to work is politically left. This is more natural than the definition involving the french revolution because for one, it refers to more natural concepts (work instead of Ancien Régime) and also because the liver organ (who does lots of work - metabolism) is on the right-hand side of the human body.

    • Sturgist@lemmy.ca
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      10 days ago

      and who doesn’t want to work is politically left.

      Except that I’d say I’m an anarchist, and I really enjoy working. I don’t want to enrich some fuckwit inbred wannabe god, but I find personal fulfilment in work.
      Possibly a better way to categorise people in terms of work? Those who want to work and make a shit tonne of money so they can become a fuckwit inbred wannabe god on the right, and those who want to work to better their community and life for everyone on the left.
      Also note that there’s different kinds of work. Someone who’s entire life is painting, or making poetry, or subsistence farming off grid… that’s still work…

      I’ve met more people on the right who don’t want to work than on the left. They’ll ride welfare to own the libs, cause “I’m not letting some lazy pinko commie live for free off my taxes!” Having never paid taxes…

  • frog_brawler@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    It’s already doing that. I have to refute AI bullshit from senior leadership on a daily basis now.

    Fuck him and fuck Nvidia.

  • Jared White ✌️ [HWC]@humansare.socialEnglish
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    10 days ago

    The sheer degree to which all of these moguls’ ideas are utterly bankrupt and devoid of real human craft & creativity continues to be shocking to me. Like, if any random person on the street got scooped up and put in front of a microphone and said the exact same things, everyone would think they were fucking idiots. Because they somehow are billionaires and are CEOs, they’re geniuses? Spare me, please.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 days ago

    As usual, no one read the article. Huang didn’t say anything remotely like that. His idea is that AI will take work away, allowing us to pursue ideas we hadn’t had time for. Yes, we tend to work harder when pursuing our own ideas and plans. Nice theory, but we know it won’t work that way.

    monopoly capitalism

    That’s the word I’ve been needing! I keep saying what you are experiencing is not capitalism, it’s oligarchy. Monopoly capitalism is maybe more to the point.

    40-years ago was nothing like today, with a handful of companies running every sector of the economy and our lives. People in the 80s would shit kittens if you went back and explained who owns what in 2025.