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[-] RoddyStiggs 22 points 3 days ago

Who keeps fucking quoting this idiot and posting it?

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[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

CEOs quoted: 3

Labor leaders quoted: 0

[-] toebert@piefed.social 135 points 4 days ago

Not to agree with him but.. They already are and have been for a while?

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 64 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

He is desperately rhetorically flailing, trying to pitch the idea that temporary demand in construction of data centers = job creation.

Despite that the entire point of an AI data center is to automate away 100x to 100,000x as many jobs, permanently, as will actually exist for maybe 18 months, to build the thing.

Its a nakedly bad faith line of bullshit, literally insultingly stupid to anyone that's taken a year of macro econ.

Even if you build the datacenters, ... the amount of power needed for them would be roughly equivalent to building the entire electrical power infrastructure of Germany, and that would need to be done in 18 months.

Conpletely impossible, that's like 10 years of the world's current production rate of power transformers, in 18 months.

These guys would need a top down command economy and 5 year plans to do this, and they do not have that, so they're basically just pretending they do. When it becomes evident that they were bullshitting, they'll try to say 'well thats how things should have been the whole time, with me in charge of everything!'

Delusional.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 3 days ago

plus the trades will be saturated in the schools if they tried this and would depress wages.

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[-] gwulgg@lemmy.zip 44 points 3 days ago

It annoys me to no end every single dumbass statement these idiot CEOs make is treated like news

[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago

CEO says a thing journalism!

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[-] ISOmorph@feddit.org 69 points 4 days ago

By his logic we wouldn't need CEOs either, so silver lining?

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[-] rozodru@piefed.world 59 points 4 days ago

yeah no. one of the reasons plumbers or electricians generally do well is because their field isn't saturated with plumbers and electricians. hundreds of thousands of each means salaries of said jobs will go down. thus nothing changes. Add to the fact both jobs A. require trade schooling and B. apprenticeships. Also they're pretty much all unionized which you also have to get into. it would never fly, it could never fly unless you do away with trade schools, apprenticeships, and unions which leaves you with unqualified under paid plumbers and electricians.

This fucking leather jacket wearing mouth breather needs a strong reality check. preferably one that adds another hole to his head.

[-] foo@feddit.uk 8 points 4 days ago

I wonder how long it will take for shareholders to experiment with replacing CEOs with agentic AIs. They'd certainly be good at spouting crap like Jensen is doing.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 days ago

Point of a CEO is that there's one public person for everyone to hate that can be given an even more hated golden parachute if shit goes down. You can't do this with AI. Replacing AI with AI doesn't have the same effect on people even if it has the same effect in reality

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[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 20 points 3 days ago

Does this idiot know what trades make? He's trying to denigrate blue collar, but sparkies and plumbers make miiiint

[-] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago

Yeah, very rarely do tradespeople get rich, but most I know live very, very comfortably, don't have insane hours or overtime, unless they provide emergency services, which usually pay insanely by the hour, have absolute job security. One of my son's buddies is an Electrical engineer. He quit his job at a corpo, took the certification exam, and became an electrician. Makes way more that as an engineer, and has much higher QOL.

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[-] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago

Not once some damn startup funded by people like this idiot start an app and through shady practices drive out all the independent tradesmen and make it a gig job.

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[-] Zacpod@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago

Jensen can go fuck himself. Gamers built nvidia and he fucks them over at the first opportunity.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

He handed China one of the largest industries born from the US. When AI pops, there will be nothing for Nvidia to go back to.

[-] Archer@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Can’t wait for the “pivot” back to gaming when AI crashes

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

China is filling that gap, fast.

[-] DeadDigger@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago

As a gamer they already lost me years ago but I urge everyone else to let them fail as a general business memorial

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[-] kevinsky@feddit.nl 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Assuming AI is really going to take these jobs full stop, something else needs to happen outside of people reschooling themselves for blue collar work.

I understand there might be a temporary uptick in required blue collar work as we prepare infrastructure to handle this bullshit but we definitely don't need everybody that's currently doing any kind of office work to be an pixie or pipe wrangler.

There are no AI safe jobs in this context. There are only jobs AI can't do yet. But they aren't safe. The remaining people will flood whatever job market is left if something doesn't change and then people absolutely won't be making a 100k with no degree. Besides, if AI is really going to take most of the white collar jobs it's only a matter of time before those robots get good enough to take blue collar jobs too.

Also by telling everybody what to do (become a plumber or electrician in this case) you're creating the same problem in the long term we have now with all the people that were told becoming a developer was the future and now find themselves with a crippling debt, meager income, and bleak prospects in the job market.

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 37 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Oh my god, Jensen Huang is losing it completely now, the billions have gone to his head, so he thinks he's an oracle.
He might as well say we all need to become janitors, that follow each robot around to wipe it's ass clean of oil.

[-] foo@feddit.uk 9 points 4 days ago

And, why is it always folk like him telling everyone else what they should be doing? They act like they're the ones running the show and we all need to do what we're told. If AI takes his job, will he be retraining as a plumber?

[-] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago

As long as they understand those electricians and plumbers should be charging them 5-10x what they are charging now. If their AI can't do it, it's gone from blue collar to bespoke work.

[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 27 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

When I was 16-22ish, I knew everything. I was sure of it. I had it all figured out. Everyone was an idiot except me. I tried giving everyone advice because I had the best advice.

Then reality kicked me in the ass and brought me down a couple pegs and I realized that I was so incredibly wrong. I'm just a guy with limited knowledge and the world and universe is so vast and different that no one can "know it all" or even come remotely close.

I'm so thankful for that. Otherwise I'd be a fucking moron with a dumb leather jacket waxing poetic about skilled trades as I pretend that next word guessing chatbots are the pinnacle of humanity's creation.

[-] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 6 points 3 days ago

The thing is, if the future is all datacenters, yes we're gonna need electricians and plumbers. But this is a future I want to help prevent at all costs. So look at me purposefully not being an electrician or plumber

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[-] IratePirate@feddit.org 29 points 4 days ago

Let me guess: the milllions of electricians are tasked with building the AI data centres, while the plumbers build the plumbing needed to flush all those tons of generated slop down the drain?

[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago

No, plumbers needed to help divert the worlds drinking water to cool servers.

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[-] green_goglin@thelemmy.club 7 points 3 days ago

Fuck off, Jensen.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago

We need more leather workers to make cool jackets.

[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago

I have a relative that's an electrician working on a DC. He's been one it for a year and has about two years left to completion. All of the electricians that are willing and able are working weekends on overtime pay to get this done, it's all voluntary shifts.

He was talking numbers the other day, and their company gets to keep the difference is cost on the project if they come in under budget, and they're on track to make over 1 million on top of what they quoted. None of that is being dispersed amongst the workers, at least for now. He said they recently did their weekly dialogue where everyone gets together in a room to talk about the project, and said it was abnormally quiet. People are upset and burning out. He said they could pay everyone an extra $20k a year out of that excess, and that may turn the motivation around, but so far nothing.

My point on that is, yea, they do need as many electricians as they can get, but thanks to capitalism, it ain't going to happen and they're going to start losing workers. That aligns with Jensen here, because like everyone other douchebag with power, he wouldn't be saying this if the futures didn't looked bleak on the work force. I also don't know if $20k a year extra will be enough to offset 60 hour weeks specifically working on DCs.

[-] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days ago

That situation sounds an awful lot like when Uber and Lyft first started enshittifying during COVID.

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[-] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

Tax billionaire and the one trillionaire to pay for trade schools to be free.

[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz 4 points 2 days ago

What went wrong before that we didn't need them? Why now, to build datacenters?

[-] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

If anyone supports billionaires after this … fuck you.

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[-] eestileib 8 points 3 days ago

Wait he's not wearing a wankjacket, that's a Jensenbot!

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 3 days ago

theres only so much AI chips, the jensenbot chassis can hold.

[-] 404found@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 days ago

PREDICTION: : There is going to be a harder push for the public to buy smart/AI glasses. Companies will train robots to do trade jobs by using data from smart glasses.

No vacation/sick time to pay for. No benefits to pay for. Less work for HR. No unions. No liability. Lots of dreams to sell the public that never live up to the promises. <-- this is why people hate AI, along with the data centers.

[-] Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Before that prisoners will be operating machinery remotely from their cells. Then they will reintroduce debtors prison.

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[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 3 days ago

as slaves to your compounds? you mean.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

“The skilled craft segment of every economy is going to see a boom. You’ve going to have to be doubling and doubling and doubling every single year.”

Doubling every year? For how many years, Jensen? Enough for all these people to finish trade school and make a decades-long career? And how are the AI companies who already can't see any way to make a profit going to fund this exponential growth in their costs?

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[-] febra@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

It's never too late to go to trade school. We have way too many CEOs anyway, so it'd be a good moment for him to think about his future career.

[-] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 7 points 3 days ago

Shut up you mega corp pos ceo.

You are not in charge. Go back to making graphics cards and leave politics to politicians.

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[-] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

This guys in for a rude awakening soon.

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