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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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[–] miridius@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I think that's far too low tbh

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 185 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

Jensen compared today’s AI tools to machinery that was invented during the industrial revolution

They really want this to be an apt comparison and it's really not

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It seems that the Nvidia CEO isn’t the only one investing in AI tokens for his employees to freely use.

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

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 71 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm hungry. When do we eat?

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[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

So ponzi scheme?

[–] artifex@piefed.social 24 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's funny how his 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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[–] TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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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[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week 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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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 79 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This man went from high to low REAL fast.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 57 points 1 week ago

The billionaire's way

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The secret is he's always been low, nvidia has intermittently pulled tons of shady shit basically ever since the 3dfx days

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[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 73 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

It would take a great burden from my shoulders, if AI could wash my clothes, do the dishes, cook, and vacuum my apartment. Those are the things I don't want to do. I like my job. I can do it myself. Yeah, sure, there are occasionally things that AI can do for me in my daily work, but it's mostly stupid, repetitive shit. And then I have to review it, which sucks even harder.

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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 61 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Managers should send 100 emails per day to be fully productive

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

100 AI-written emails per day

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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 47 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Huang wants employees to pay half of their salary back to the company ? There is no escaping the company store, eh ?

And CAD designers didn't have to pay half of their salary to use the CAD tools the company wanted them to use. How did that guy get to be in charge ?

[–] jagermo@feddit.org 29 points 1 week ago

You code 16 lines, what do you get?

Another day older and deeper in debt

St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can′t go

I owe my soul to the company store

[–] artifex@piefed.social 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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".

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Which is still utterly absurd, because it implies that a harder working dev would be spending more time chatting to a bot.

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[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"Dear AI coding agent, write for me a 10,000 page manifesto on the downsides of assigning performance metrics to employees unrelated to their actual work product. Populate it with generated images of Nvidia's CEO getting railed by a bunch of copyright lawyers in the style of a Studio Ghibli film. Please ensure every fifth sentence rhymes with orange. Continue to generate images and short videos of Jensen Huang licking shit off the floor of a 7-11 rest stop bathroom until you have used enough tokens to meet my salary target."

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[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago

CEO suggests raising employee costs by fifty percent and is immediately fired.

Sorry, we don't live in a sane world anymore.

[–] glen_malley@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 week ago

They've all realized there's no point in even bothering to hide the grift anymore. People don't care.

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago

Luigi knows the solution for this.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sam Altman floated paying employees in chatGPT tokens, that surely their landlord will accept. The main motive would be being broke. Nvidia is not broke, but it is weird as fuck to be comparing it to salary, if it doesn't segue into the OpenAI plan. The $500k salary example would seem to generate more tokens than you could have time to skim over in review.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He's sooo close to arriving at crypto tokens.

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[–] Sinthesis@lemmy.today 32 points 1 week ago

BREAKING NEWS: Guy who sells AI hardware says his employees must use more AI.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 30 points 1 week ago

It's moments like these that make me think about the state of the world and my part in it. I may just be a random loser on the Internet, but I do know a lot more shit that some of the biggest multi-quad-spillion-dollar CEOs, apparently.

For example, it's an old fact that tech CEOs know jack shit about measuring productivity, even when they're obsessed with it. Yeah. One more example.

[–] moustachio@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

It’s amazing they can just make these claims without literally any evidence and no major “media” organization asks for it. They are just propaganda for these companies.

[–] fierysparrow89@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

I'd say not before the bosses and shareholders agree to take 50% of their compensation in the form of AI tokens.

These fucking leeches...

[–] REDACTED 26 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Something I don't understand - AI coding is mostly useful in common code, snippets, easy stuff. What Nvidia is doing (drivers, optimization, chip design, etc.) is something I imagine there is close to zero AI training, so what can they realistically even use it for so much?

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

so what can they realistically even use it for so much?

Burn money on AI tokens so it looks like AI could be profitable some day so people keep investing in AI companies that can then buy Nvidia chips...

You're thinking of it like "how can AI make a better product"

They're looking at it as "how can we sell more chips"

Two very different questions with very different answers.

It's a house of cards and Nvidia can't afford to acknowledge no one wants AI or knows how to make it profitable.

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[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh this will be a fun. "Please spend more of our company money, or else we will think you are not doing your job"

it's so fucking easy to send bogus requests that use tons of processing time. This is the DUMBEST metric i've seen in a long, long time. If an employee of theirs uses 500k worth of processing time now, are they better employees? What if someone manages to spend 10 million worth of tokens? 100 million? Performance metrics should be outcome based instead of "how much money did you spend" lol

[–] artifex@piefed.social 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's not a metric it's a marketing stunt.

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[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Can't wait to to see AI that designs chips driving Nvidia out of business

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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

Let me translate this for you, "My bonus depends on you showing our massive investment wasn't a waste so I'm holding your jobs hostage until you make up busy work to pretend it was worthwhile."

[–] teslasdisciple@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 week ago

This is even dumber than tracking how many lines of code each dev commits.

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

can I tell an AI to burn exactly that on Jan 1 doing absolutely nothing, and then never touch the shit for the rest of the year?

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[–] answersplease77@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

The AI bubble went from a trillion dollar worth of circlejerk investments, to a self-sucking circlejerk trillion dollar ponzi scheme. Jensen Huang is right the moment an Invidia's employee stop sucking their own dick or stop jerking off their coworkers and bosses simultaneously, the whole economy collapse.

[–] Kekzkrieger@feddit.org 14 points 1 week ago

Highly paid asshole says shit and instead of ignoring it gets all the attention.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Jesus that's a lot of tokens.

Even if I was trying to do everything in my power to make burn tokens for real work I'd be hard fucking pressed to burn more than a couple thousand a month and that's just being wasteful.

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[–] realitista@lemmus.org 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just have an LLM ask another LLM questions for a couple hours a day. That should hit that target.

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[–] recked_wralph@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (17 children)

Wouldn't an AI researcher naturally find generative AI disadvantageous because they are attempting to develop novel tools which could not exist in the training set in the first place?

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[–] filister@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The beauty is when those companies run out of human training data and start training on AI slop, just to generate even more AI slop.

This is probably already happening though.

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[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I thought AI would save us money? If it adds 50% onto the cost of a salary and bynall studies does not improve productivity output, then it's not great.

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[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I remember back when Nvidias PR team used to push this humble rags to riches story about Jensen back in the day, I guess even they would have a tough time doing that now that he's gone mask off

[–] Carol2852@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No shit, CEO of company producing AI hardware wants everyone to use their hardware more. 🤷‍♂️

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