Comment on Jensen Huang says Nvidia engineers should use AI tokens worth half their annual salary every year to be fully productive

Feyd@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s worse, they want to change the global economy to corporations paying corporations…

  The total elimation of actual consumers, because none of us will be able to afford to consume enough.

  AI companies need people to pay for AI to keep buying Nvidia chips. So Nvidia is making their employees pay for the AI so AI companies keep buying Nvidia chips.

  It’s not a sustainable system, it’s just a money churn whose only purpose is to consolidate wealth.

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  • P1nkman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m hungry. When do we eat?

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    • ickplant@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s the neat part!

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  • wabafee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So ponzi scheme?

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• artifex@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I didn’t read it that way. I think he’s saying “bosses: if you’re paying a $100k salary to a dev and not also paying $50k for tokens, your dev isn’t working hard enough”. Which is better, but only just.

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  • Windex007@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    To refine that even further, he doesn’t appear to imply that the dev isn’t WORKING hard enough, only that they’re not being OPTIMALLY PRODUCTIVE.

    What he’s trying to do, really is float and normalize the concept of baking tokens into HR math in terms of a “golden ratio”… which happens to be 2:1.

    So, when a company goes all in on ai, and they cut thier workforce in half, they’ll need to add in 50% for tokens. 50% of the original staff, at a new 150% cost, puts the company at 75% pre ai workforce cost. This is the “guidelines” they’re trying to normalize.

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    • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s funny how the calculation factors in the completely immaterial price of tokens variable instead the material one which is the number of tokens or better yet the productivity gain per token.

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      • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Huh, yeah. 50% cost in tokens could be 1 very expensive token or 1 million tokens. Who knows?

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  • TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think he’s saying slaves should owe their soul to the company store.

    Don’t give this sack of shite the benefit of doubt.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      he needs new jackets.

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      • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        A straight white one

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  • Feyd@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He didn’t explicitly say it, but the language in use gels with the ones that have

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• fartographer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  With my trusty LLM, I follow the steps recommending that I try reaching inside the die press to look for any jammed parts that could have caused the machine to suddenly stop working. My coworker, who my boss sent to assist me based on instructions from her LLM, asks his LLM how to help me. My coworker’s LLM recommends that he check if the emergency stop button has been pulled…

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• 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They also really want to talk about tokens like they’re some kind of currency

  i think it is better than pizza fridays for them, because they probably can’t barter pizza for free.

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• atomicorange@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The tokens as currency thing feels exactly like gaming microtransaction bullshit to me. Obscure the true cost of each purchase by selling in-game currency. Dark patterns lead to higher spending.

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  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s proof of work cryptocurrency. But at least this time the compute is aiming at producing something useful, not the lowest hash value.

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• WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just a few days ago they were indeed talking about giving tokens as bonus.

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  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is company chit still illegal if it’s a bonus?

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  • CuddlesMcBubblefun@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s one the most insanely stupid things I’ve ever heard. Tokens are a tool used to do your job, a business expense, not fucking compensation.

    Are the kWh that you use to light and air condition an office part of your compensation? How about toner and paper in the office printer?

    If those tokens are a bonus, they’re yours, right? So you can burn half your annual salary worth of tokens translating Microsoft Encarta 95 into Klingon, and they will foot the bill?

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• nightlily@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sure I don’t get any retirement or healthcare benefits, but look at all the company scrip I get for the sloppy autocomplete that is stealing all my groundwater no matter how many times someone says „closed loop cooling“.

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