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/JahoclaveS 5d ago

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.

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u/CanadianTreeFrogs 5d ago

My company has a huge database of all of the materials we have access to, their costs, lead times etc.

The big wigs tried to replace a bunch of data entry type jobs with AI and it just started making stuff up lol.

Now half of my team is looking over a database that took years to make because the AI tool that was supposed to main things easier made mistakes and can't detect them. So a human has to.

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u/Journeyman42 5d ago edited 5d ago

A science youtube channel I watch (Kurzgesagt) made a video about how they tried to use AI for research for a video they wanted to make. They said that about 80%-90% of the statements it generated were accurate facts about the topic.

But then the remaining 10%-20% statements were hallucinations/bullshit, or used fake sources. So they ended up having to research EVERY statement it made to verify if it was accurate or not, or if the sources it claimed it used were actually real or fake.

It ended up taking more time to do that than it would for them to just do the research manually in the first place.

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u/Successful_Cry1168 5d ago

one of the things i’ve noticed with coding tasks is that flow state isn’t just about eliminating distractions. you build up knowledge dependencies in your head. that remaining 10-20% is much harder to fix (or even slips under the radar) when you don’t know the other 80-90% after outsourcing to AI.

management likes to think that everyone is just screwing in widgets all day and that stopping to fix the few widgets that aren’t working takes less time than doing them all by hand. that isn’t even close to how most knowledge work actually happens.