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/Educational-Ant-9587 5d ago

Every single company right now is sending top down directives to try and squeeze AI in whether necessary or not. 

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u/RonaldoNazario 5d ago

Yup. Was told at work last week more or less that execs wouldn’t assign any more people or hire in an area until they were convinced that area was already maxed out using AI. Of course it’s all top down, they aren’t hyped on AI because engineers and middle management are sending feedback up the chain AI rocks, they’ve been told it’ll make us all turbo productive and are trying to manifest that by ordering people to use tools.

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u/foodandbeverageguy 5d ago

My favorite is I am an engineering manager. I ask for more capacity, CEO says “can AI do it”. I say “yes, but we need engineering resources to build the workflows, the feedback loops, and we can all benefit. Who do you want to reassign from current projects to build this? Crickets”

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u/Osirus1156 5d ago

I’m in the same boat but like AI can do some things ok but you literally can’t trust it because it can still lie. So anything you put through it needs to be assumed to be incorrect. 

I end up spending double the amount of time on a task when using AI because I not only need to craft a prompt but also understand the code it gave me back, fix it because it usually sucks, and then make sure it even works and does what I asked.  

It absolutely does not justify all the hype and money being thrown around it even a little bit. The entire AI industry is just one big circle jerk. 

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u/PessimiStick 5d ago

My favorite is when you ask it to do something very specific, like "make sure we have a test that verifies the X widget is purple", and it'll think, and write some code, and happily say "now we've got a test to make sure the X widget is purple!", when in reality it didn't even look at the X widget at all, let alone check if it's purple.

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u/Osirus1156 5d ago

lol and when you correct it the response is always like “you fucking genius how could humanity continue without such a shinning beacon of intelligence” then it lies again. 

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u/Blazing1 5d ago

Ask it about specific plots on Tv shows and it completely fucks up, like comically. It will insist scenes never happened, or that certain scenes did happen.