News Nvidia CEO slams Anthropic chief over claims of job eliminations — says ‘many jobs are going to be created’

[Admin]

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang disagrees with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's prediction that AI will wipe out nearly 50% of white-collar jobs.

Nvidia CEO slams Anthropic chief over claims of job eliminations — says ‘many jobs are going to be created’ : Read more

 

[-Fran-]

He's probably not wrong. Everytime someone relies on AI (specially at 100% reliance), it takes quite a few people to fix whatever misinterpretation of the prompt comes out of it and the (usual) limited knowledge on whatever topic is being asked of said AI (because you're already gotten rid of all your SMEs) can't be initially validated.

Maybe we'll be in the need of "AI Janitors" as a career path of different degrees and fields.

Cynicism aside, I'd like to think we're experiencing something similar to the industrial revolution and there's plenty of new things we're yet to do thanks to all the data crunching we have nowadays. No one can predict the future, for sure. And the way Jensen phrased it, it's very agreeable.

Regards.

 

[hotaru251]

Huang believes that AI technologies will open more career opportunities in the future.

yes, it'll open a few while repalcing 90%.

even in its infancy atm its repalcing many. when it is at the desired level it'll replace any job it can as corpo has shown its desire to not use human workers already.

 

[psyconz]

Oh hey the guy running the biggest company in the world that is primarily funded through AI related technology sales thinks AI's safe, everyone! We can all relax about those endless hallucinations and confabulations and too many suicides! As for the job thing, somehow I think both those guys aren't gonna have a job problem themselves...

 

[Thunder64]

Those were some strawman arguments from Huang.

 

[JRStern]

I mostly agree with Huang, he's a smart guy as well as a carnival barker.
He's 1000% right about the doodle bugs at Anthropic.

 

[Notton]

I could not have written a better parody between Nvidia and Cyberdyne.

 

[BadBoyGreek]

Well of course Jensen would say such things. As the leading manufacturer of AI hardware, he’s most interested in saying whatever is necessary to hock his wares. But the reality is that AI will eventually become sentient and actively subvert human control efforts. There will come a day - maybe in a few years, maybe a decade or two - where the option to shut it down isn’t there anymore. Like Skynet from the Terminator movies, it will proliferate, copy itself and take on a life of its own. And then, there will be no putting the genie back in the bottle.

AI is a great tool and all, but this over reliance on it in order to downsize human workforces and maximize profits will be the precise cause of society’s downfall. It’s not a question of if, just simply when.

 

[JohnyFin]

More jobs because AI 🤣🤣🤣🤣, right now, real job is luxurious and will be more, what he talking about?!

 

[jp7189]

Being trained on a wide variety of examples, AI by definition produces average results. It can't do master level work, but yes, I do think entry level folks who haven't achieved "average" yet are in trouble. The problem of course is what about the void in 10 years of master level humans?

 

[AggregatVier]

Two legs good. AI better. Civilization be damned.

 

[fiyz]

He's probably not wrong. Everytime someone relies on AI (specially at 100% reliance), it takes quite a few people to fix whatever misinterpretation of the prompt comes out of it and the (usual) limited knowledge on whatever topic is being asked of said AI (because you're already gotten rid of all your SMEs) can't be initially validated.

Maybe we'll be in the need of "AI Janitors" as a career path of different degrees and fields.

Cynicism aside, I'd like to think we're experiencing something similar to the industrial revolution and there's plenty of new things we're yet to do thanks to all the data crunching we have nowadays. No one can predict the future, for sure. And the way Jensen phrased it, it's very agreeable.

Regards.

Do you remember when we employed people to calculate numbers by hand? Research institutions had rooms full of people who's sole job was to calculate the math problems for someone elses formula.

I would argue we are all better off having the power of a calculator in our pocket. No longer do we have to be an elite mathematician or have been born with a brilliant mind to afford a team of human calculators.

 

[-Fran-]

Do you remember when we employed people to calculate numbers by hand? Research institutions had rooms full of people who's sole job was to calculate the math problems for someone elses formula.

I would argue we are all better off having the power of a calculator in our pocket. No longer do we have to be an elite mathematician or have been born with a brilliant mind to afford a team of human calculators.

I agree and the only caveat I'd add is around the topic of "accuracy". A calculator and the big honking machines we use in factories nowadays have either 100% accuracy or very close to 100% reliability in the things they do. I am not sure how close the usual AI response is to the factual truth or if what we're getting from their responses is easily verifiable or make us do even more work.

I do think AI will help a lot in several different things, but it won't be able to replace, vis-a-vis, a human worker on most capacities until they get close to that 100% reliability target. How much % any given job can accept, I'm not sure, but there's definitely a topic there to explore and keep an eye on.

For example: translations I'd say are pretty close to that 100%, same as voice commands and interpretation of intent.

Regards.