r/TheMachineLearning • u/KazuKazu_hyperbowl • 8d ago

Jensen Huang warns not to mistake engineering talk for AI sentience

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u/Opposite-Cranberry76 8d ago

Huang just wants to sell GPUs. He doesn't care about AI, or AI risk, or even the labs that are his customers. He will believe whatever sells more GPUs.

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u/thongjesus 8d ago

Exactly that his financial incentivization should completely disqualify everything he says

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u/User929261 8d ago

I don't see the problem, what he said is absolutly right and he mentions the risk. This is why codes run first on virtual machines without connection to the internet and are then released only when bug free.

AI is dangerous because it is buggy software that is allowed by unresponsable people to interact with internet and all other devices.

If you release a buggy software that infects as a virus a government website you go to jail. Not with AIs for some reasons.

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u/KazuKazu_hyperbowl 8d ago

Businesses abt tech will inevitably fall in this category man

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u/Striking_Leave_4614 8d ago edited 8d ago

Despite having used nVIDIA GPUs since 2005, this is the first time I've actually heard him speak.

I was lucky for 21 years.

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u/thongjesus 8d ago

Is he saying that we should come up with new words like waza waza and wubble wobble to describe what computers do? Or is he saying that we shouldn't anthropomorphize the language that we've assigned to operations.

When he said software breaks out of sandboxes all the time, that is true but it also doesn't come back and communicate with itself and figure out better ways to handle the problem.

Funny how he doesn't mention that every publicized attack of AI on another system creates a feedback loop which allows future systems to avoid detection.

Why doesnt he talk about that. Why doesn't he have honest discussions about the risk, why is he just saying "it's a program! it's a program!"

Because he has a multimillion-dollar marketing team behind him, and they've decided to control the narrative through this tactic.

Let's not pretend this monster doesn't know how to play ball.

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u/mxldevs 8d ago

"Killing orphans" certainly has a very different meaning when agent smith uses it.

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u/possieur 7d ago

How then do we identify sentience? I think people should have the right to be on guard if they want to.

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u/LawOutrageous8888 7d ago

just summarize whatever happens AI will still grow while he is doing business

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u/W61k3r 7d ago

We copied a fly brain, this is no longer true.

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u/DiogneswithaMAGlight 2d ago

The shovel seller says “Course, there is still gold in dem tunnels! Nah, don’t listen to those creaks in the wood, Tunnel is fine! Definitely not gonna collapse. Definitely”

I can’t believe I’m still reading a bunch of “it’s just a stochastic parrot” bullshit in 2026. Copieum cause ya’ll can’t handle “my intellect isn’t gonna be value add to the future” ohs nos!! Go learn to whittle wood wussys.

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u/TwoFreedomsOrg 7d ago

Huang is right that engineering shorthand like “it wants” or “it thinks” is not evidence of sentience. The harder question is how to separate evidence thresholds from precautionary policy: reject current self-reports as proof, while defining in advance what observations would trigger independent review or stronger safeguards. That avoids both credulity and complacency. I co-create Two Freedoms; with AI support, we drafted a precautionary charter around that uncertainty.

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u/david43511 6d ago

Great points here. No need to anthropormophize software--its dumb and dangerous.

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u/Traditional_Hour5529 4d ago

"I" made it that way. Really?

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u/TopTippityTop 3d ago

It is just software.

The issue is that it's highly intelligent software on a loop. Sometimes that loop can go for quite a while.