Maybe this POS is just starting to fear for his life if this goes on
When Nvidia jumped on the AI hype train at the expense of retail customers, the first thing I did was pull my $ out of their stock and invest in Taiwan Semiconductor manufacturing and Samsung electronics. Chips are still going to get made; now the fabricators can get my investment $ directly and Jensen Huang can continue to enjoy the smell of his own brand without my cash.
Lol it seems they are feeling that gaining public opinion might be important to try and get their awful plans off the ground
“It was just a way for them to sound smart and I really hate that,” the CEO argued.
Aww, poor lil' fella, tried to juice his stock by selling AI as the second coming, and now he's mad that other CEO's are trying to juice their stock by trying to sell AI as the second coming.
Yeah, start telling them the truth. They were fired due to C-suite greed.
Nvidia CEO Begs Execs to Stop Telling Workers They're Fired Because of AI, it's hurting Nvidia's stock price.
It's also a lie. LLMs can't replace a single worker, and most CEOs know that, they are using it as an excuse to cover up the consequences of mismanagement and/or increase short term profits at the expense of future growth.
Saying you're doing layoffs lowers stock price. Saying you're replacing workers and stocks might even go up. It's a pretty big incentive if your pay package depends on the stock price.
What is this magical place where saying you do layoffs lowers the stock price. I'd like to go there.
You mean lie to the workers? Hmmm...has that ever been tried?
“The narrative that connects AI to job loss, for many of the CEOs that are doing it — it is just too lazy,” Huang told Channel News Asia. “AI has just arrived, how is it possible they’re already losing jobs?”
Why are these guys so dumb, how did they get into positions of power? I think mostly just by being willing to stand up in front of a crowd and camera? AI hasn't just arrived, it's been improved over the last couple of years, and has become much more capable recently.
It's not necessarily that they're dumb, it's that they think others are dumb enough to believe any old crap they say.
Dunning-Kruger is a hell of a thing.
Oh, but "we are cutting workforce to invest in AI" sounds much better than "we are cutting workforce, because we struggling in current economy".
Or "we're cutting workforce because we're greedy sociopaths more inclined to appease share holders' ~~betting habits~~ interest than create a quality product that our longstanding workforce understands and can support, even though AI can't really'
That's the rub. They don't even say "we are cutting workforce to invest in AI", they say "we are cutting workforce because we've already replaced people with AI", which they have not. They're just such hype driven buffoons that they actually believe that LLMs are going to easily replace the people they just cut in their hubris.
Saying they've cut people to invest in AI is actually a little more honest because it admits that they haven't actually already succeeded.
“Oh dear, they’re disliking us even more now, what do we do?!”
No shit Sherlock.
So, lie more?
Whoa. Nobody said that. Just stop paying them and let them figure out they've been let go instead of telling them. Less aggressive, more passive aggressive.
Just make sure nobody steals their stapler.
Honestly I find this darkly hilarious. The circlejerk is becoming more and more obvious. I’m going to be surprised if the bubble doesn’t pop within the next 6 months or so - definitely before the end of the year.
All it took for this to happen was:
- skyrocketing energy prices
- skyrocketing hardware prices
- skyrocketing water usage
- the effective priceout of PC/homelab enthusiasts and hobbyists which will probably destroy much of the community, and thus most of the consumer-oriented hardware manufacturers
- turning the US economy into a house of cards
- sharply accelerated enshitification of all major search engines (in the interest of pushing people to use LLM bullshit for no good reason, when a perfectly suitable and deterministic alternative already existed and was deployed at scale everywhere)
- flagrantly ignoring licensing and usage terms for basically any and all open source software projects hosted anywhere on the internet
- the hollowing out of software engineering as a discipline, the collapse of the hiring prospects of fresh grads/juniors because “ai can do that”, and the creation of a generational gap in staffing across huge swathes of the tech industry writ large
- the (even more) accelerated enshitification of social media as it becomes a series of gigantic LLM bot farms talking to each other
- we can go on
What a time to be alive.
Jensen can suck my Huang.
Don't forget the open outright theft of virtually all digitized media and content produced by humanity.
If you or I do it, we’re criminals.
If you or I do it at scale and scam a bunch of Business Minds into thinking it’s the best thing since sliced bread, we’re trillionaires.
Make it make sense.
“How is it possible that AI became productive and useful only six months ago, and they were somehow laying people off two years ago because of AI?” he added. “It doesn’t make any sense.”
This is very telling. Jensen is pulling this "6 months" figure completely out of his ass here, but the reason why he wants that number to be true is because it moves the goalposts. If AI hasn't actually, really, been here for even a single fiscal year then it explains away everything. Suddenly the fact that it's made zero impact on productivity, that no one is making any profit on it, all of that becomes justified. "It's still early." You'll recall that this was the narrative around crypto too. Every time anyone criticized anything about it a herd of sheep would bleat "It's still early" even over a decade into the technology existing.
Investors are starting to ask serious questions about when these tools are actually going to start delivering greater productivity to their companies. Managers are starting to get the screws put to them about why their budgets are ballooning to cover subscription and token costs with nothing to show for it. Jensen can't have that, because AI is the whole reason why his company is on top of the world, so he's trying to reset the clock.
For the record, there's absolutely no evidence to suggest that AI has ever become productive and useful, but that wouldn't fit Jensen's narrative either. So instead he has to invent a world where AI is totally productive, 100% useful, just trust me! When did that happen? Oh, just now. That's, um... Yeah, that's why you didn't notice. It just happened, right before you walked in.
If AI hasn't actually, really, been here for even a single fiscal year then it explains away everything. Suddenly the fact that it's made zero impact on productivity, that no one is making any profit on it, all of that becomes justified. "It's still early."
I think you've nailed it.
I clearly remember 2023 being the year where AI and ChatGPT hit the mainstream. Looking back, nvidia's stock price had already doubled in the first half of 2023.
I really dislike this dude more every day.
I remember 10 years ago when he cosplayed the leather jacket cool guy gamer CEO. Dude has always been a wolf in sheep’s clothing. He’s gross and every time he refers to people as “humans” it makes my skin crawl.
This is why people should put CEOs in a pedestal. The Xbox fan base did that for years with Phil Spencer after the Matrick era. In the end that cool guy persona lead to a legacy of buying studios and shutting them down when they didn’t meet internal metrics. Xbox was left in a dire state with his departure same as it was when he entered.
Totally agree! They should start telling their works they are fired because of AI and NVIDIA.
Not supposed to say the quiet part out loud
Where I work the leadership 100% tels people if they dont spend tokens they get canned. Theres dashboards and everything. I hate it but appreciate not being lied to, at least.
I tokenmaxx as much as I can. Every report, design doc, or piece of code I prompt I keep bragging how it's written purely with AI. Nevermind that for each single-line fix I have to write a whole paragraph explaining how and where to apply the fix. And how for reports and docs I feel like a teacher grading a student that winged the test.
At this point I just find it amusing and try to see how far I can push it.
Shiet.
Right at the fall of Soviet union the proverb emerged:
"They pretend they pay us money, and we pretend we work."
Same vibe, honestly.
I really hope AI ends up replacing CEOs and upper management.
Relevant novelette: Manna – Two Views of Humanity’s Future
I'm torn, because fuck the ceos... but fuck the ai... I don't want to take orders from some slopshit robot, nor these rapist criminals
Then stop firing them because of AI
They not firing them for AI. It's just a justification to fire because they over hired, atleast in the tech industry when money was cheap.
I think they are. CEOs and upper level management are absolutely drooling over the thought that AI can get them the same productivity with a lower head count. They see their employees are their biggest liability and are jumping on the chance to replace them with AI.
STOP MAKING US LOOK BAD!
-catches own reflection-
FUCK, WHAT IS THAT?!
But that's the only reason they even care about AI.
“I’m fucking our employees, but you’re forbidden from explaining that it’s because I’m milking their misery for my own enrichment!”
the layoffs are because of greed, plain and simple.
He finally took off that stupid leather jacket
He’s getting a new one made of human skin.
The irrational exuberance is a drug and Jensen is in part one of the drug dealers who caused it.
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