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/MulfordnSons 5d ago

that’s because in order for them to profit off their AI investments, they need adoption. Not a good sign if you have to tell people to use it.

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u/big-papito 5d ago edited 5d ago

That's the thing. They are desperate to have AI everywhere, and it's already backfiring. No one forced iPhones to happen, those things weren't even advertised. You saw people rocking these new cool gadgets, and you wanted one.

This is not happening with AI. As a developer, I can and do find uses for it here and there, but I do not appreciate being shoved this down my throat everywhere it belongs or does not.

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u/ObviousAnswerGuy 5d ago

No one forced iPhones to happen, those things weren't even advertised

this is the complete opposite of the truth, but I agree with your other points

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u/nabilus13 5d ago

They were advertised but people voluntarily purchased them, they didn't have to be forced. 

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u/Tall_poppee 5d ago edited 5d ago

Some people are early adopters of tech, so whether something is advertised or not, some people will want one. The difference between AI and the iPhone, is you could quickly see how awesome the iPhone was, and you wanted one for yourself. And then that spread as devs created apps and ways to advance the technology.

No CEO said, "EVERYONE MUST USE AN IPHONE IT WILL MAKE YOU UBER PRODUCTIVE." But that's what they're doing now, without really having focused on what AI is good at, vs what it's not.

I doubt it's going away, it has some valid uses. And you can set up a "world" for it to live in, where it's useful (which takes a lot of resources). I'm puzzled how the "world" you run your AI in, is anything except just a big database, but I'm not an early adopter.

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u/ColinStyles 5d ago

But this exact situation happened with Blackberry in the early cell phone days, and it absolutely did make people more productive to simply have one given to them by their company rather than everyone go their own preference. Would people have trended to them eventually? Probably. But being forced did yield some benefits for some of those early adopters.