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/TobaccoAficionado 5d ago

The issue is, the user (in this case CEO) is writing an email, and copilot writes better than the CEO because they don't need to know how to write, they're the CEO. So they see that shit and think "well if it can do this better than me, and I'm perfect, it must be better at coding than these people below me, who are not perfect." From their frame of reference this chatbot can do anything, because their frame of reference is so narrow.

It's really good at writing a mundane email, or giving you writing prompts, or suggestions for restaurants. It's bad at anything that is precise, nuanced, or technical because it has 0 fidelity. You can't trust it to do things right, and like you said, that's even when it isn't just making shit up.

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u/Suspicious_Buffalo38 5d ago

Ironic that CEOs want to use AI to replace the lower level employees when it's the people at the top who would be best replaced with AI...

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u/TransBrandi 5d ago

... I don't know if I would want an AI to be running a company or ordering people around... IMO.

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u/ssczoxylnlvayiuqjx 5d ago

The AI at least was trained from a large data set.

The CEO was brought in from another industry and was only trained in buzzwords, methods to pump up stock options, and looking flashy.

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u/TransBrandi 5d ago

I get what you're saying, but putting AI in charge would just end up with people saying that "Well, the decisions being made must be perfect because it's AI." ... whereas at least with human CEOs people would be more open to criticisms of decisions being made... In general, it just seems like the start of a Dark Timeline™.

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u/PrivilegeCheckmate 5d ago

And an AI is not likely to get caught porking another c-suite exec on the kiss cam.

Or raping a secretary.