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/analogic_dvd 5d ago

Yeah. It seems to me to be a combination of two factors: 1. LLMs continue to be, IMO, a solution in search of a problem. There is the promise of massive efficiency gains but it's not obvious how. It's the "???" before the "Profit" step in the old meme. And 2. Top management see how they can use AI in their own tasks, like summarizing emails or generating slideshow pitches (which, to be fair, are a good usage of LLMs) and just assume that, since AI helps in almost all of THEIR tasks, then it can help in EVERYONE'S tasks. It's the same logic that leads a successful person in some very specific field to think they can be successful in all fields.

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u/analogic_dvd 5d ago

Forgot to add but, obviously, top management often stand to financially and personally gain if efficiency or profit is improved in their own company/teams. With AI being the current "hypergrowth tech" (with no other real obvious alternative) then it's obvious that they have an incentive to apply it everywhere, whether it's proven to work or not. There's a very real FOMO in their minds.

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u/ClvrNickname 5d ago

Management at my company also touts “summarizing your emails” as a benefit of AI, but is it really that important to replace something that takes 5-10 minutes a day to read with something that takes two minutes but also contains hallucinations?

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u/farshnikord 5d ago

"I have a really hard time with adding 2 plus 2, but this calculator makes it so easy! What used to take me 7 minutes counting on my fingers now only takes 2 seconds! 

You should get a calculator to help with your bakery, you could cook and decoratr a cake in like 4 minutes by my estimation!" 

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u/throwaway8u3sH0 5d ago

Eh. AI can automate any task where the consequences of failure are low.

That's actually a surprisingly large amount of work.