{"id":781734,"date":"2026-09-25T02:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T02:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/781734\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T02:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T02:38:09","slug":"nvidia-ceo-doesnt-care-that-kids-are-forgetting-basic-math-because-of-ai-i-actually-dont-know-my-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/781734\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia CEO Doesn’t Care That Kids Are Forgetting Basic Math Because Of AI: ‘I Actually Don’t Know My Address’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nvidia CEO and Trump fan Jensen Huang<\/a> is someone who really needs artificial intelligence<\/a> to grow and grow and grow. His company is one of the main providers of the hardware<\/a> needed to run the data centers and computers powering most AI systems and services. So it\u2019s not surprising that he doesn\u2019t seem to be bothered by the idea that AI is rotting brains, making kids forget basic math, and even seemingly making him forget his own phone number and address.<\/p>\n

In a new interview with The New York Times,<\/a> Huang was presented with research out of China showing that AI tools help kids get homework done faster, but that same research seemed to show that any skills the work was meant to impart weren\u2019t actually sticking, so their performance on quizzes and tests was degrading rapidly. Jensen agreed that this lack of retention was likely happening to many kids using AI, but he wasn\u2019t worried.<\/p>\n

\u201cTry to get a kid to do long division right now,\u201d said Huang. \u201cThe multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter? I don\u2019t think it does. I don\u2019t think it does.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the interviewer pointed out that there must be some skills that matter, Huang agreed, but wondered if basic math was one of those skills, suggesting we are going to \u201cdiscover new ones.\u201d He then admitted that because of his own use of AI and other tech, he doesn\u2019t know his own home address and telephone number.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a lot of skills that don\u2019t matter,\u201d said Huang.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy first confession: I actually don\u2019t know my address. It\u2019s completely true\u2026[my wife] Lori will tell you. One day I had to pump gas\u2014it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn\u2019t know my ZIP code. I don\u2019t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Huang further suggested that, sure, AI might lead to people losing some \u201cfiner intellectual dexterity,\u201d but don\u2019t you worry, folks. We\u2019re all going to become better \u201csystems thinkers.\u201d<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what that means and Huang\u2019s word-vomit response, which went on for 230 words, didn\u2019t really help. So I\u2019ll just assume a systems thinker is someone who will be completely screwed in any situation where their phone is dead and they\u2019re forced to interact with another person who needs to know their address or phone number. They will also be people who apparently not only can\u2019t do basic math, but likely won\u2019t even be able to explain to you how their chatbot arrives at the conclusion that 4 x 3 = 12. I can\u2019t see anything bad about that being the future!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nvidia CEO and Trump fan Jensen Huang is someone who really needs artificial intelligence to grow and grow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,7221,3352,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-781734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-jensen-huang","tag-nvidia","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}