Nvidia CEO: 'You Won't Lose Your Job To AI, But To Someone Who Uses It' (yahoo.com) 34
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang has served up another blunt take on the job market as AI permeates society. From a report: "You will not lose your job to AI, but will lose it to someone who uses it," Huang said at the Milken Institute Conference. Added Huang, "I recommend 100% take advantage of AI, don't be that person."
Stating the obvious in the race to the bottom... (Score:2)
This story is basically stating the obvious, but the extension is that it is part of the race to the bottom for the human beings like you and yours truly. Also loss of agency, especially for older people. No concern with anything learned from experiences or the often large costs of acquiring those experiences. The companies are focused solely on profit maximization, which is a never-ending rat race on the other side. No amount of profit will end that race, and reducing reducing the salaries paid to the huma
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nope, not gonna happen.
Exactly this. The folks using AI outsource their thinking to a machine. The more they use AI, the less thinking they perform for themselves. And, the more of their own skills they lose. I can still do my job without AI. I can perform just as well as you because you're using AI as a crutch to make up for your own inadequacies. You'll become more dependent on AI over time. I'll continue to perform without it.
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You will lack dependence on it, which is a notable value in itself- but those that use it will outperform you, regardless of what they've sacrificed to do so.
Do Slashdot "Editors" use AI ? (Score:3)
My Product (Score:5, Insightful)
This translates to, "My product is the best thing ever, so I highly suggest you use it!" said every snake oil salesman ever.
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In short, "buy, obey, consume, reproduce".
As fresh as it was back in 1980.
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This translates to, "My product is the best thing ever, so I highly suggest you use it!" said every snake oil salesman ever.
He's not even early to that party for AI companies. We've been getting told that for at least a year by the traveling AI prophets, i.e. salesfolks. "Use it or get run over by those who do," has been the mantra for a long time now.
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When someone building tools tells you that you're working faster/better/... with a tool, they think about selling their tool. But that doesn't mean they are wrong. It only means that you should have a look who else manufactures tools before buying one.
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I'd dumb it down even more, and say that NVidia's real message is: "We don't really care how you use AI, as long as you're buying our GPU's to run it".
"I recommend ..." (Score:2)
Translation: better buy tons of our shit or else.
AI alone doesn't make up for experience (Score:5, Insightful)
You can use something like Copilot to fill out interfaces, refactor large projects, or generate a mocking class. But if you don't know the project, then the AI assistant won't be much help. Copilot doesn't really work that well if you ask it broad questions, it will give you vague answers. But if you know precisely what you want, it can bang out the necessary boilerplate to get it going.
So rather than AI replacing your college degree and years of experience, it supplements it. So kids, don't think that you can just coast through college because AI will do your thinking for you. That's not how this works at all, and you'll hit a brick wall one day if you slack off on your education and career.
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That's a fundamentally flawed project. The history of humanity shows that natural language must be replaced with jargon and specialized domain specific languages to achieve solid results. Natural language is not suitable, it is merely the default before a useful specialization is developed
My observation (Score:4, Insightful)
The early AI chatbots were mostly useless crap generators
Now, they are starting to get useful, not nearly as useful as the hypemongers claim, but genuinely useful
The demos look very impressive, but there is a big difference between a carefully made demo and real deployment
My crystal balls say...
Some competent workers will use AI tools effectively to improve their productivity and quality
Some less competent workers will use AI tools to generate crap that may cause lots of problems
Other competent workers will continue doing their work as they have always done it because AI can't effectively help them
The hypemongers, pundits and futurists are always far ahead of reality. I admire their creativity, but also apply more than a bit of skeptical analysis
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The competent people are already using AI to improve on their work. They only do not brag about building a web app in one prompt (and then not knowing how to extend it further) but use it in smaller steps while knowing their own project.
That said, some models are quite good at providing a first draft of a working web app even with code that's clean enough you can use it as a start for your project. Just don't expect to have the AI have the overview later on and be able to extend it more than 2-3 iterations.
Best Marketing Pitch to Date for AI (Score:3)
Old Pitch: AI will reduce expenses by eliminating jobs:
Response: Fuck you, Fight AI!
New Pitch: People who use AI will steal your jobs.
Response: The fuck they will! I'm gettin' me some AI right now!
Wrong. (Score:1)
That phrase is little more than semantic trickery. I will likely lose notable parts of my job to AI. So much so that it won't be much of a job at all. That goes for many more people than myself.
I will have something remotely resembling a "job" (read: "useful/regarded social position") _not_ by using AI but focusing on skills that AI _can't_ provide that easily. Like meaning- and mindful human interaction, a healthy human body and real functional social skills that go along with it.
Using a bot won't make my
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TNow please tell the young ladies in your vicinity that the only job very most likely _not_ to be done by a bot anytime soon is the job of a mother.
So that job is paying a living wage now? Also, TIL fathers can be replaced by bots.
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Too bad that's a folk song that didn't happen.
Nvidia CEO: PLEASE USE AI!!! (Score:2)
What's the difference? (Score:2)
"What's the difference?' to quote "Joshua" from War Games.
You dive into a swimming pool, a lake, or the ocean...you get wet, and possibly drown.
The same result, you lose your job. Quod, quod, fiat.
JoshK.
Misunderstanding what LLMs are = disaster (Score:1)
People are so enamored with "AI" in the form of an LLM that they are completely blinded. They don't understand the underpinnings of how an LLM works, the various internal programmed guides and guardrails that influence and limit its response; the lack of persistent memory and so on. The potential is definitely there, but I've seen first-hand how people are getting lost in their misperceptions that I sometimes wonder this will end up in a crisis at some point.
Could be this is simply a necessary step we mu
buy buy buy! (Score:2)
How very interesting that the guy who sells chips that power AI, would be encouraging even more use of AI whether it makes any sense or not.
Who could have seen that coming?
To the extent it is useful. (Score:2)
It isn't exactly something you have to "train up" to do. You *might* get outmaneuvered in some specific ways if you neglect to bother to use it, but I don't see it as being an active employment discriminator any more than "can you let tab completion do it's work when it can save you time or do you just type everything out manually?"
Reminds me of the video professor guy (Score:2)
"Buy my product"
"will lose it to someone who uses it" (Score:2)
He is correct. People who embrace AI and learn how to boost productivity with it are already a lot more valuable than the ones who refuse. Its going to be a critical skillset from now on. It doesn't matter whether you like it or not, ride that wave or you will be left behind.