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Big Technology Podcast

AI Backlash Intensifies, Nvidia GTC Preview, Meta’s Embarrassing Delay

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

Management, Religion, Politics, Entrepreneurship, Business News, News, Investing, Marketing, News Commentary, Social Sciences, Science, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Business, Tech News, Philosophy, Government, Technology

4.7596 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Backlash against AI & specifically Sam Altman's comments about AI as a utility 2) Is this because people are worried about AI taking their jobs? 3) NBC poll shows AI is one of the least popular things in the U.S. 4) YouGov poll shows broadly negative feelings toward AI 5) Pew finds datacenters are very unpopular 6) Consequences of AI's unpopularity 7) Nvidia GTC preview: A rallying cry for AI 8) Could Jensen Huang be the guy that turns this around? 9) Amazon's AI code is messing things up 10) McKinsey's AI tool hacked 11) Meta can't get its act together with Avocado delayed 12) Should Meta's AI use Google's Gemini tech --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack + Discord? Here’s 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The AI vibes are getting ugly. What exactly is going on? Will Jensen Wong give the AI story a boost at

0:07.0

NVIDIA's forthcoming flagship GTC event? And what in God's name is happening at Meta, where the company's latest model is delayed again?

0:15.6

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0:59.6

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1:03.8

We're going to talk about why AI is in the midst of a growing backlash.

1:12.2

We're going to talk about what we might expect at Nvidia's forthcoming GTC conference, which is going to be the big news of the next week.

1:17.0

We're also going to talk about Amazon and others having trouble with their vibe coding.

1:22.7

Then, of course, Meta has this big AI model that is simply not shipping despite all of the money and all the talent they're putting towards it.

1:25.2

Joining us, as always on Friday, is Ranjan Roy of Margins. Ron John, great to see you. Welcome back. The AI vibes are off. This is going to be an interesting with discussion this week. You know, back in the day, you seem like every day there was a new AI breakthrough that people were talking about. Now it seems like every day there's a new AI study that is pointing towards some ugliness around the way that

1:46.5

the public perceives AI. And for me, this really came to ahead this week. I don't know if you saw

1:51.9

Sam Altman speaking at an investor conference. And there was a quote that went around Twitter

1:57.1

where he said, we see the future where intelligence is a utility like electricity

2:03.0

or water and people buy it from us on a meter. Now, that was like one part of a quote taken out

2:09.9

a context where, you know, he was talking about why they're building AI infrastructure,

2:15.5

so much AI infrastructure and his desire to make it cheap,

2:19.3

somehow the internet just took hold of this statement

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