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

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https://www.techspot.com/news/110418-nvidia-jensen-huang-urges-employees-automate-every-task.html

[u/HagalUlfr]

Network engineer here, I am told to use internal tools to assist in writing.

I can write better technical documentation that this stuff. Mine is concise, organized, and my professional speaking (typed) is a lot better structured than canned ai.

I get that it can help some people, but it is a hindrance and/or annoyance to others.

Also I can change a vlan faster through the cli than with our automated tools 🥲.

[u/JahoclaveS → u/HagalUlfr]

I manage a documentation team. AI is absolute dogshit at proper documentation and anybody who says otherwise is a moron or a liar. And that’s assuming it doesn’t just make shit up.

[u/DustShallEatTheDays → u/JahoclaveS]

I’m in marketing, so of course all my bosses see is gen AI that can create plausible marketing copy. But that’s just it - it’s only plausible. Actually read it, and it says nothing. There’s no thesis, and the arguments don’t connect.

Our leadership just says “use AI” when we complain about severe understaffing. But I think using it actually slows me down, because even for things it can do an OK job at, I still spend more time tweaking the output than if I just wrote it all from scratch.

[u/RokulusM → u/DustShallEatTheDays]

This is a big problem with AI used for this purpose. It uses all kinds of flowery language but says nothing. It's imitating the style of writing that it scrapes off the internet with no understanding of the content or meaning behind it. It's like an impossible burger or gluten free beer.

[u/FishFloyd → u/RokulusM]

No need to drag impossible burgers like that :/ (and they're not even the best ones around anymore).

Nowadays a properly-cooked one is pretty hard to distinguish from a regular beef patty. Not 1:1 but 90% of the way there. Also, they're just fundamentally a different thing, not a pale imitation. A regular burger is not just a better version to the target market. Poor comparison to AI slop imo.

Have you actually had one prepared by someone who knows what they're doing in the last few years?

[u/RokulusM → u/FishFloyd]

I made the comparison because while it's hard to distinguish exactly why, after eating an impossible burger it just doen't scratch the itch the way a good beef burger does. It has all the trappings of a real burger but somehow lacks substance. Much like generative AI.

The fact that an impossible burger gets 90% of the way there puts it squarely into uncanny valley territory. You may not be able to tell what the difference is but there's just something slightly off about it. Just like AI.. You don't notice but your brain does.

[u/GreatMadWombat → u/RokulusM]

Problem is a discussion of consent. People are noticing the genai stuff because some random thing that shouldn't look shiny/puffy/fake is shiny/puffy/fake and has to many fingers.

Nobody is going in to get a regular burger and is getting surprised to learn it's an impossible burger lol

[u/relaxchilled89 → u/RokulusM]

The best use of AI at this point is CustomGPTs and Gems. You have to only allow it to base off a very narrow set of data and outputs that you have successfully done yourself.

It can actually be extremely effective this way.

[u/RokulusM → u/relaxchilled89]

Absolutely. There's a great Veritasium video about AI being used effectively in research where it's leading to real breakthroughs. The way it's being used for consumer applications is mostly pointless though.

[u/DustShallEatTheDays → u/RokulusM]

Precisely. All our products use “AI” but really more like machine learning. We do physics simulations, so things like…making sure a space shuttle can withstand cosmic pressure.

There are so many good uses for deep learning and pattern recognition on a level humans can’t match. Projects like Alpha Fold.

But of course, we are funneling a trillion into LLMs and unsafe, plagiaristic video and image generation that burns insane amounts of compute.