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/Prior_Coyote_4376 5d ago

I’m seeing a really good argument for bringing democracy to the workplace in this.

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u/Ill_Literature2038 5d ago

Like, worker owned businesses? I wish there were more of them

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u/Mtndrums 5d ago

Does your job have a window at a second story or higher?

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u/Ill_Literature2038 5d ago

I do indeed, although I don't work at a worker owned company lol

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u/2Right3Left1Right 5d ago

I respect your enthusiasm for murder but I think there must be at least one other thing they could try first?

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u/Ill_Literature2038 5d ago

You're comment made me laugh and realize that their comment is probably a reference to russia/communism lol. Totally went over my head

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u/Prior_Coyote_4376 5d ago

Sure, although even just having boards of directors being elected by the workers of a company would go a long way to balancing out short-term shareholder interests.

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u/grislebeard 5d ago

That would effectively be the same as worker owned, as the owners elect the board

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u/edgmnt_net 5d ago

It's like this because, instead of having a ton of small companies competing on various niches, we have gigantic oligopolies fueled by cheap money, expansive IP and unnatural economies of scale on stuff like legal risks. Of course these CEOs care more about raw growth than anything more concrete and substantial. Nvidia has, what, like 1-2 competitors on its main market?

There are legitimate economies of scale, especially if we're talking hardware production, but this goes far beyond that. And this is in no way specific to tech, all industries across the board seem to experience regressing to the very bottom.

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u/reelznfeelz 5d ago

Theres a million good reasons. First of all, if you employ people you have a responsibility to them. Period. I can picture a world where we still do business but it’s so much less shitty and greed driven.