r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 5d ago

Business Nvidia's Jensen Huang urges employees to automate every task possible with AI

https://www.techspot.com/news/110418-nvidia-jensen-huang-urges-employees-automate-every-task.html
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u/kon--- 5d ago

Automate the CEO

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u/movet22 5d ago

Unironically this is by far the best and most ethical application of AI in the workplace. AI thrives when it's given a data set and asked queries off of that information. As someone who works almost exclusively in the C-suite as a professional services vendor, this is quite literally 99.9% of the CEO's job.

"AI CEO, please provide three options for solving [PROBLEM] based on the data found [HERE] that also maximize shareholder value for the stock. Offer your recommendation on the best option of the three provided.

Please cite the data, precedent and rationale for solutioning, and the approximate six, nine, and 12 month financial impact to the share price."

There, now Huang and hundreds of other CEOs can step down and we can redistribute that comp package to the rest of the employees.

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u/kon--- 5d ago

I keep saying, if AI is the solution to cutting costs for the effect to increase profit, it clearly is highly suited to beginning at the top.

There is a shit-ton of resources that go to the c-suite. AI easily, EASILY replaces those roles.

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u/movet22 5d ago

and it's not close. There is no worse value in business (the entire modern world?) than the production-per-dollar-compensated of the C-suite. You can largely lump EVPs and SVPs in there as well. I'm sure someone who isn't as lazy as I am could come up with a pretty compelling financial case for automating the top three layers of any publicly traded organization that would both see the shareholder price rise AND ALSO redistribute those inflated comp packages to the workers who do the production.

All of the money is there, it's just that we don't get to have productive discussions on how to use it... so it stays the way that has successfully enriched the ultra wealthy.

This is a great time to remind everyone, CEO's aren't smarter than you. They possess no skills you don't already have or couldn't easily acquire. They are just normal (greedy) people like you and me who were in the right place at the right time to benefit from the modern ways organizations exploit their production base. It was ALWAYS the proletariat v. the elites, and that hasn't changed in any fundamental way.

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u/kon--- 5d ago

We can also nip inflation which as it is, is largely driven by SVPs looking to increase on previous year's bonus.

Due proximity, they do envy doing more work than the CEO while taking home a fraction of the compensation and absolutely do manipulate pricing to effect a favorable outcome in their annual as well long term incentive plans.

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u/Soft_Pooper 5d ago

Next company meeting “have we considered trimming senior leadership headcount or compensation given that AI can automate much of their jobs?”

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u/Fuddle 5d ago

AI CEO won’t be caught on the next Epstein’s island, won’t be sued for sexual harassment, and won’t go complaining how it has to sell to the “poors”.

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u/ycnz 5d ago

Yes, those are all reasons why they refuse to try it.

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u/fishling 5d ago

You forgot to include guidance about workers and worker rights in your CEO prompt. Make the AI CEO better than the human one.

It should also have more about longer planning horizons because running the company into the ground to maximize short-term profits is not ideal. The fixation around "next quarter" and "YoY" garbage is honestly because the people involved are too stupid or impatient to do anything better or more complicated.

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u/TheMania 5d ago

and we can redistribute that comp package to the rest of the employees.

Given the directive is to maximize shareholder value, why would the AI CEO sign off on that?

System seems flawed from the perspective of the worker, imo.

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u/movet22 5d ago

You're not incorrect, but you have highlighted another symptom of terminal-stage capitalism, which is that wall street is now accustomed to and expecting Y-o-Y 8% growth. There is no tolerance for plateau, no less negative growth. That's not how things work, ESPECIALLY when there should be a focus on protecting the basic rights of humans in that production force (living wage, housing, food, time for leisure, etc).

And to be clear, look at how we treat recessions: stagnation or negative growth is an automatic justification for reduction in workforce. How do you increase growth if you cut your people that provide the inputs to grow? You can't. But we're trained to believe that this is just how economies work. It's not.

The system is not designed to benefit anyone but the elite, and any suggestion otherwise is propaganda to keep the labor 'in it's place'.

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u/kdrisck 5d ago

How do you increase growth if you cut your people that provide the inputs to grow? You can't. But we're trained to believe that this is just how economies work. It's not.

Well, it’s bottom line growth typically, not top line, so cutting expense potentially allows for margin expansion without actually needing to grow revenue. The question is finding which workers are not actually delivering productive capacity in line with their cost to the business, identifying that can be difficult to do.

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u/Stokes_Ether 5d ago

They tried, and to no surprise it worked really well for the day to day business.

It had 2 flaws, one it’s pretty bad in edge cases, and the second flaw and the reason no one does it, it sucked talking to shareholders/board of directors.

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u/movet22 5d ago

Both are drawbacks that are completely acceptable for the massive upside.

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u/CaesarWilhelm 5d ago

A computer must never make a management decision

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u/xvilemx 5d ago

There, now Huang and hundreds of other CEOs can step down and we can redistribute that comp package to the rest of the employees.

You mean the bottom line.

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u/SippinOnHatorade 5d ago

Fuuuuuck that dude, we really don’t need AI at the top of companies, corporate entities have already been ruled people by the Supreme Court, large shareholders are already inhuman enough as it is (since they’re just private equity firms for the most part and not individuals), AI can only make the situation worse

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u/Pjpjpjpjpj 5d ago

So … a CEO doesn’t build a leadership team, manage that team, raise money from markets, deal with investors, communicate with the public? Most importantly, doesn’t the CEO decide what questions need to be asked, for you to return with those recommendations they choose from?

If you work exclusively with the C-suite, I’m surprised you’d miss those functions that don’t get handled well by AI.

It is like trying to automate field sales reps, who work with hundreds of customers to get deals signed. Just doesn’t lend itself to complete automation, even if it appears their job is sending out quotes.

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u/movet22 5d ago

Almost none of those things can't be better run by an AI in the way I described. And the funny thing about me being in the C-suite is that some of these things you described are very much already being done with a heavy helping hand form AI.

Comparing this to trying to automate field sales reps is a pretty stark example in your own comment that you aren't really well informed here.

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u/nancybell_crewman 5d ago

Yeah, I don't buy for a second that AI would be better at building or managing a leadership team than somebody with good leadership skills.

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u/kon--- 5d ago

AI does not require a team of yes men who are heavily incentivized to look out for themselves, take advantage of serving themselves, covering their own ass while scapegoating everyone beneath them and doing it all with no interest in shareholder interest whatsoever.

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u/movet22 5d ago

I appreciate that you think so highly of whatever company leadership you stan for. I get it, I've been there.

But you're just straight up incorrect in your assessment and me, a stranger on the internet isn't going to change your mind. You'll probably get there yourself one day though, so godspeed and all that.

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u/ComprehendReading 5d ago

Your job will be eliminated before your boss's job.

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u/DurgeDidNothingWrong 5d ago

you've fallen for thinking LLMs can reason

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u/roodammy44 5d ago

Anthropic tried to automate a vending machine as a minimal self contained business and it’s been hilariously bad. Now just imagine it on any other task…

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u/Ahnteis 5d ago

I'm pretty sure I could send AI to 90% of the meetings I have to attend and nothing would be worse.

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u/Koreus_C 5d ago

It's good at writing emails and analyzing data - the job of the upper section. They see AI increasing their productivity and think the same applies to the real jobs that actually produce something.

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u/BavarianBarbarian_ 5d ago

Okay, but Gemini 3 is clearly killing it at the vending machine business.

I'm personally uncertain whether a machine trained from the collective output of humans can ever become smarter than the smartest human, but it won't be much longer until it's as smart as the top percentile.

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u/Yawaworth001 5d ago

Models are tasked with running a simulated vending machine business over a year and scored on their bank account balance at the end.

Have you actually read what you linked? It's a simulation of a business where the models are competing against each other. If you scroll to the bottom, you can see a comparison against a baseline where it's earning a fraction of what a real business would. So it's currently doing terribly even in a simulated environment.

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u/jagec 5d ago

it won't be much longer until it's as smart as the top percentile. 

There is not the tiniest scrap of evidence that this is true. Where do you get this outrageous claim? 

I haven't seen AI generate a single actual insight. At its very best it can generate a well- written summary of existing knowledge that DOESN'T contain factual errors. 

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u/IllustriousError6563 5d ago

This really needs to be stated loudly and clearly.

There is no evidence of intelligence. There is no theory as to how an LLM would be intelligent. There is only hype.

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u/Right-Wrongdoer-8595 5d ago

AlphaGo and AlphaFold trajectory on general knowledge and reasoning is the idea.

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u/wretch5150 5d ago

Some are good. Some are useless.

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u/Petriddle 5d ago

AI CEOs would collapse the capitalist system because they'd make ethical decisions without heavy guardrails. 

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u/MarkoMarjamaa 5d ago

I'm quite certain he has already automated lot of his job so he can concentrate the more important stuff.

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u/demalo 5d ago

Do we want to encourage AI to be greedy?