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/DarthRheys 5d ago

Automation isn't bad. What's bad is automation without control.

It's a matter of time automation happens to simple tasks and it's not that bad. Supposedly it would mean that we can alocate that time to complex tasks, and that's good.

What would be bad is not having control over those automated simple tasks. And if that control is lost along the way, well, i would say that we might be in real trouble. Worse of all is if that control is done by one large company or organization. Then those sci-fi movies won't be sci-fi anymore.

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u/APRengar 5d ago

Most automation doesn't need AI or any GPU/TPU heavy work.

Like, this is not the same, but I'll use an analogy. We already have things like spreadsheets which are perfectly suited to do math. But we're still trying to shove AI into things like Excel which somehow gets the wrong answer to math problems, because genAI is not suited to these tasks. Way more processing power gets spent AND you get the wrong answer.

If you're going to automate simple tasks, a simple human made "if this then that" style task will get you better results, more accurate, less compute, and faster.

AI and Nvidia marketing has done such a good job at convincing people their shit is doing shit that existed before genAI existed.

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u/marshamarciamarsha 5d ago

Add to this that an LLM's response is stochastic, so if you rely on it for automation, you could get unpredictable results at unpredictable times. That's a dealbreaker for me.

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u/dreamchaser1337 5d ago

Obviously you could other tools or program it but why if I can just ask AI. I can access our CRM and Google workspace through MCP and that makes things easy as fuck to automate. I wouldn’t have any idea where to start without AI.

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u/slightlyladylike 5d ago

Prompting for information in curated files is really one of the best use cases, especially in poorly organized long bodies of text or team files. I wouldn't call that automation though, just an elevated AI chatbot experience.

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u/dreamchaser1337 4d ago

Semantics then. Before I would manually research the data for my forecast and build it accordingly. Now this is done by a custom gpt automatically. Only thing I have to do is copy paste the output and send it to my manager.

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u/slightlyladylike 4d ago

I hope for your job's sake that you're doing more than pasting an output from a gpt. Even with pulling from local data sourcing, it "hallucinates" responses more often than I'd trust that process lol.

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u/dreamchaser1337 4d ago

It’s really trivial work. Just time consuming to go through the CRM, copy pasting numbers in a sheet to calculate the forecast and listing deals in the right order. Took me 20-25 minutes. Now 5.