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

Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨artifex@piefed.social⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/jensen-huang-says-nvidia-engineers-should-use-ai-tokens-worth-half-their-annual-salary-every-year-to-be-fully-productive-compares-not-using-ai-to-using-paper-and-pencil-for-designing-chips

You’re not productive if you don’t use a lot of AI, says guy who makes all of his money selling AI hardware

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Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Wow, that doesn’t sound like a pyramid scheme at all. At all.

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eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Tech people are all circle jerking dipshits

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bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
What a fucking clown

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lime@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
you first, mr huang

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homes@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
If these AI engineers were fully committed to AI, then they would be happy to be paid in tokens. The fact that they still demand to be paid in human money proves that they are just philistines and sycophants.

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NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I mean… if you take into account fair price of utilities (water and electric) and skyrocketing costs of RAM… I don’t fully disagree.

Ballparking, but 50% of an engineer’s job being “boilerplate” and “charlie work” sounds reasonable to me. Maybe even 75%. That IS what generative AI is really good at. It is the kind of work that you can have a particularly ambitious student intern do.

What makes a good engineer is the ability to verify that work. In software this is “code review”. And the other aspect is actual innovation. Solving particularly complex problems or breaking a problem down into manageable and verifiable tasks.

And… guess how you maintain your skills to be able to do that? That’s right. Charlie Work.

Which is the problem. Managers (and wannabe managers) just see short term gains. So they want EVERYTHING to be done with “AI” because they want to bulk fire people and reduce operating costs. And they don’t at all care that they are causing a massive brain drain because that is next quarter’s problem.

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Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
“And to not get mysteriously laid off”

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Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Would Nvidia lose a bunch of money if the ai bubble collapsed? Could that be why he is saying absurd things like this? I bet if any employee did drop that much on ai they would be in trouble.

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goatinspace@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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miridius@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I think that’s far too low tbh

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shweddy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Aww yea bitches digital scrip

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sturmblast@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Nothing like a wage slave

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