AI minds and computing’s human-sounding vocabulary
A post relaying Jensen Huang’s remarks says he cautioned against treating familiar terms like “spawn” and “kill” as evidence of a machine mind.
TLDR
A post citing the YouTube channel for The Ezra Klein Show and New York Times Opinion relays Jensen Huang’s argument that AI is software, not a human mind inside a machine. It points to decades-old computing terms—“spawn,” “parent,” “child” and “kill”—and describes giving those mechanisms human characteristics as misleading. The post quotes Huang: “We can't make jokes about all this stuff, we're scaring the American public.”
