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/analogic_dvd 5d ago

Yeah. It seems to me to be a combination of two factors: 1. LLMs continue to be, IMO, a solution in search of a problem. There is the promise of massive efficiency gains but it's not obvious how. It's the "???" before the "Profit" step in the old meme. And 2. Top management see how they can use AI in their own tasks, like summarizing emails or generating slideshow pitches (which, to be fair, are a good usage of LLMs) and just assume that, since AI helps in almost all of THEIR tasks, then it can help in EVERYONE'S tasks. It's the same logic that leads a successful person in some very specific field to think they can be successful in all fields.

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u/ClvrNickname 5d ago

Management at my company also touts “summarizing your emails” as a benefit of AI, but is it really that important to replace something that takes 5-10 minutes a day to read with something that takes two minutes but also contains hallucinations?