• RagingRobot@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Those people aren’t as great as you make them out to be. They aren’t some kind of super human geniuses who know how to make the best decisions. The whole article is about them making bad decisions.

    They got lucky that ai happens to run best on graphics cards that they were already making. The people at the top didn’t design the chips or do any of the really hard work. They just slap their name on it. These people are as human as you and I and they are capable of making the same awful mistakes.

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      4 hours ago

      They’re already making billions before AI took off though, that’s my point. They were already doing the work, building supply chains and distribution, and making technologies that drive today’s entire marketplaces.

      I still think they’re Bond villains, because again, $Billions, I just don’t want people bringing puritanical gossip into technical spaces. I do not care about it…

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      4 hours ago

      I definitely don’t think these people are super human. They’re billionaires and that immediately clocks them as Bond villains in my book.

      But Jensen Wong absolutely steered the company across decades, including the Sega maneuver that madr both of them hundreds of millions of dollars after t doubling down on a lifeline that kept NV afloat in a disastrous chapter.

      My point is mostly, Jensen Huang is good at specifically what he does, and Ms Huang appears to be similarly calibered. Again, people are talking about them like they are bumbling fools and moralizing technical and data-driven things.

      That’s it. I don’t care about the gossip and I don’t like empowering AI Bros with these National Security narratives when the reality is just a couple of Semi/Silicon C Suite f****** each other and making billions in distribution contracts.