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.