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Nvidia CEO predicts the death of coding — Jensen Huang says AI will do the work, so kids don't need to learn. Coding is old news, so focus on farming. Ah yes glorious future for all of us as everyone is going to return to the farming. What makes you think machines can’t do farming? https://www.techradar.com/pro/nvidia-ceo-predicts-the-death-of-coding-jensen-huang-says-ai-will-do-the-work-so-kids-dont-need-to-learn

Nvidia CEO predicts the death of coding — Jensen Huang says AI will do the work, so kids don't need to learn

Jensen Huang believes coding languages are a thing of the past
Benedict Collins (TechRadar pro)
Wyatt :gentoo: :qtile:
Wyatt :gentoo: :qtile:  
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Electrolytes! It's what plants crave.

We are inching closer and closer

Anthropy :verified_dragon:
Anthropy :verified_dragon:  
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this tells me more about the nvidia ceo than anything, and I'm not even against using LLMs to aid in coding-- but you gotta be smarter than the tool, otherwise you're just a fool with a hammer (everything will look like a nail)
Jonathan Carreño
Jonathan Carreño  
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as the man said: FUCK YOU, NVIDIA.
Xeno Danger Evil
Xeno Danger Evil  
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this is insane. I've never been worried about an ai raking anything over. I've been worried that people will assume it's better than it is and give it decision making authority. The state if programming is already very bad, ceding the authority to write code is an abject failure of morality.
Dimitris A. Nakos
Dimitris A. Nakos  
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Who tells him that machines can do programming in the first place? -_-

Farming can't be done by robots though, not currently at least. And I'm certain that even if some aspects might, not all will. But I'm sure that he doesn't even know what he's talking a bout when he mentions farming XD

Stu
Stu  
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high on his own bullshit.
hdante
hdante  
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only the CEOs will be unreplaceable
🏳️‍🌈🜏 John 🜏🏳️‍🌈
🏳️‍🌈🜏 John 🜏🏳️‍🌈  
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, I'm going to go with Sagan on this one.

Carl Sagan — ‘Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.’

That's a mighty big claim there.

hdante
hdante  
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the proof that AI won't replace workers is that managers were never replaced by flowcharts
Demiurg
Demiurg  
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Debugging crappy generated code will be a super power then and come with according salaries ^^ It's as stupid as promoting you don't need to learn how to read when there exists text to speech. :blobcatfacepalm:
Nazo
Nazo  
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They'll not only have to learn, but they'll have to learn the various ways that "AI" "hallucinates" so they know what to fix when they're hired to fix what it did.
greblus
greblus  
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I'm learning new languages for fun (currently Spanish and Rust). No AI can take it away from me :-). And I'm wondering how well all these GPU farms are secured from electromagnetic impulse... Just a thought, not that I wish something bad should happen and impact the future of AI. This field is very promissing. But all these people who lost their jobs due to this 2nd industrial revolution, they still probably have quite a lot of resources and possibilities.
Luna :blobcatnauseated:​
Luna :blobcatnauseated:​  
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he looks like an npc in a 2000's game made specifically to be the annoying punching bag character
EK
EK  
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Coder predicts inevitable death of Nvidia CEO, suggests him to return to farming.
dilletante
dilletante  
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Ha ha. Fool. He should fire all his programmers. Which he won't do.

The things people do for publicity.

李颖
李颖  
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can machines do CEO? :blobcatcoffee:
Martin 🪷 Schmitz
Martin 🪷 Schmitz  
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This is EXACTLY what my uncle who worked for IBM told me in the eighties. „Don't focus on learning to programm, our machines will do this in the near future by themselfs.“
airik
airik  
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does he ever take that damn jacket off?
Asier Izquierdo 🇪🇸
Asier Izquierdo 🇪🇸  
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I wish for a future in which all tech companies go bankrupt because people just decide it's enough and we just don't use computers or something
Random Tux User :fedora:
Random Tux User :fedora:  
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He should try replacing nvidia driver developers with ai, I think that might result in a net positive for humanity.
thejikz
thejikz  
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im going to teach my kids coding EVEN HARDER!!
Mark Ziemann
Mark Ziemann  
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If AI is so good, then why the f** am I still folding my own laundry?
Bart Van de Poel
Bart Van de Poel  
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The NVIDIA ceo doesn't have a clue what a programmer does.
Uncool mouse
Uncool mouse  
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wow. Someone tell him we don't HAVE to write code even now. Like, people choosing to be developers is not because it's essential to our survival or more important than other jobs…. 🤦🏼‍♂️

Also, this comic is nearly 8 years and is still relevant because people keep making the "we won't have to code anymore" statements.

A four-panel comic strip featuring two men discussing software development. In the first panel, one person, holding a mug, claims that someday programs will write themselves based on specifications. In the second panel, the other person agrees, and asks the person what the industry standard term for a project specification that is comprehensive and precise enough to generate a program called in the third panel. The person with the mug responds "uh… no", to which, the other person replies (in the last panel) "Code. It's called code".
Fahim Ahmed
Fahim Ahmed  
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current AI programs are mostly useless for any amount of sophisticated work
hwestiii
hwestiii  
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who needs people anyway?
johnteachestech
johnteachestech  
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I mean I'm ok with machines doing all work
LeftOfKarlMarx
LeftOfKarlMarx  
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All we are saying is give feudalism a chance
icecoldsquirrel
icecoldsquirrel  
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Beware of AI driven NVIDIA drivers!
Leszek
Leszek  
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hahaha, I'd bet otherwise and I guess programming jobs may be extremely well paid soon if programmers start farming instead. I remember how deep learning was suppose to replace radiologists a few years back. Guess what, now we start to have not enough of them, because it looked like a poor career choice because of the previous deep learning hype...
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Sarah
Sarah  
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Just had to finish laughing before I could type. Teaching coding at the moment and decided to try and see what ChatGPT could do with HTML and CSS. Gave it the same brief as the kids, told me to find a web developer. Paperless offices, no bookshops, synthesised music, online teaching only, they are all fads. Once people try it for a bit and realise why they did things a certain way it all changes again. I will continue teaching coding, apart from anything else, they love it.
James M
James M  
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He is a deluded fool. I cant believe the CEO of Nvidia i buying into the current AI media craze. Currently it is no where near half as useful as the general public think
Freevolt
Freevolt  
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I think these days the central role of CEOs is trying their best to trick uninformed people (probably to get them to buy more stocks).
haerench
haerench  
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Well I predict the end of CEOs. AI will do all the work 🙃
Håkon Alstadheim
Håkon Alstadheim  
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If this is to make sense, the definition of coding must be so dumb that such a skill was /never/ needed. It has always been about analysing a problem and specifying a clear, safe and secure way to apply IT to it.
Garden Punk
Garden Punk  
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Tried returning to farming, turns out tech billionairs got into land speculation, and farmland is expensive AF.
argv minus one
argv minus one  
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Uh, shouldn't there be torches and pitchforks over that? If techbros are hoarding farmland, everybody's gonna starve real soon.
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Garden Punk
Garden Punk  
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@argv_minus_one Why? They are still growing food on it. It's just that land speculation has driven up land costs and created a barrier to entry for people to "Go be a farmer." The farmer is the one who owns it. So Bill Gates gets to go be a farmer. Normal folks can just work for him.
@argv minus one
argv minus one
argv minus one  
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@Capheind

So, feudalism? That's not exactly tolerable, either. Did people not study this stuff in school?

@Garden Punk
Filippo Nova
Filippo Nova  
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@nixCraft, and who will develop the models? Will AI develop AI itself? Dangerous, isn't it?
@nixCraft 🐧
FeralRobots
FeralRobots  
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There's a lot to unpack in that. I will just point out:
By 'farming' he likely means farming as a field of organized study. To the extent that 'machines' (i.e. systems) do farming now, they usually do it quite badly. Good farming often makes intelligent use of big 'smart' machines in ways that are counter to what farmers are taught in college. My guess would be he doesn't understand farming to that level of detail.
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