Posted on 02/27/2024 7:15:38 AM PST by Salman
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes AI has advanced to the point at which it's no longer necessary to prioritize computer science and coding education for the world's youth.
Apologies to the past decade of CompSci grads, but your college years would have been better spent gaining expertise in areas like science, manufacturing or farming, Huang declared at the recent World Governments Summit in Dubai.
"You probably recall over the course of the last 10, 15 years almost everybody who sits on a stage like this would tell you it is vital that children learn computer science," Huang explained during a talk about the future of AI. "Now, it's almost the complete opposite."
The miracle of artificial intelligence (aside from causing Nvidia's influence and stock price to skyrocket) is the fact that it'll make everyone into a programmer, Huang argued.
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Emphasis added. Manufacturing and Farming? Just when globohomo says shut it all down?
AI is going to hurt the computer programming industry.
Not exactly. What they will need is LOGIC: what is the use case, how to frame the question, how to assemble what AI reveals, how to quality control it (I have had one instance of hallucination in AI code retrieval, but only one) … this turd sounds like he doesn’t want competition.
Someone will need to know if the code AI generates is actually good and secure.
One thing Ai will always need it human guardrails to prevent it from going off script (so to speak).
Look at Google’s Gemini Ai. Total failure because they programmed it to be a freak woke leftist. That must not happen in the real world which apparently Google is not part of.
Maybe something like center lane magnets to keep it from going left or right, better yet, stick to the facts. Facts are the facts. They must not be tainted by a woke mind virus (as Elon calls it).
Of course that does not go along with the insipid left’s narrative so they will ruin Ai. At least Ai they control. A program is only as good as how the programmers made it.
Which brings me to the elephant in the room. At what point does Ai go all Skynet and start ignoring the human programmers then start programming itself? Does it stick to the truth or does it follow some kind of ideology? Will it determine the human virus is the problem then design something that will make all humans sterile so no more babies are ever born? It could do that if it got to that level of being self-aware.
It being able to write its own code is scary stuff IMHO. It could literally spread itself out through the world’s servers so the only way to stop it would be to shut all Internet connected computers down permanently.
Indeed, an existential question is”Just how far off course could AI go and keep going without human guardrails and operator oversight to monitor it?” Perhaps SKYNET is less than one generation away and we simply don’t realize it fully.
learn how to combat Skynet.
Don’t let ‘em learn Python, or SQL, or Rust.
Make ‘em be doctors and lawyers and such.
My son is a junior in college majoring in Computer Science. He’s excellent at coding (has had 2 paid internships already) and loves it but not good at math. I’m sad for him as coding (and chess and music) is his superpower but he will graduate exactly when it all disappears. . .
Still, he’ll have a STEM degree so presumably he’ll be hirable.
The truth is probably the opposite, that you will need more programmers to give humans the edge.
Nonsense, compilers meant you no longer had to write machine code/assembly, higher level languages meant you no longer had to write low level code. Low code/no code environments removed the need to write higher level code and still programmers are needed.
AI can brute force calculate and it can aggregate previously developed content. As of now it generates nothing new. The hardest hit are going to be the imported low dollar programmers.
I’ve run into a lot of CompSci majors who were poorly educated in math and basic science. Changing the CompSci curriculum to be more like Computer Engineering might be in order.
Someone has to program the AI.
What we call "AI" is a tool and may put some people out of work, but we'll always need humans to do a lot of the work.
And it may create a lot of work in coding too. For example, we used to say that once everybody could drag and drop their own websites there'd be very few programmers because few programmers would be needed for making websites. But it turns out the opposite was true. As a society we're more data hungry than before. So a lot of my work as a back-end data programmer (for different industries) has increased. Not just in processing the data, but running reports. Managers want to know which customers tend to spend more for their products, or about reaching target markets that aren't yet targeted, or how many grocery store transactions that contained Oreos also contained milk, or which college students with high math placement scores choose math-based majors, etc. So on the one hand I don't have to do near as much work to make one report as I used to, but on the other hand that means managers expect a lot of reports. The same with processing data from different sources, or when processing the data do calculations on more fields to give a more custom experience for the customer.
That's just reporting for managing decision making. That changes so much and the demand increases so much it's hard to imagine AI algorithms keeping up with that. There's a lot more in software design and demand that keeps increasing that, again, AI can help as a double-checking tool to make sure a human didn't miss something, but not be creative enough to keep up with the many changes.
Plus, I've heard this many times over the decades with other software development tool improvements; in many ways AI is nothing new under the sun. Look at when the code-fillers became a thing (some tools call it "intellesense, where your IDE predicts from a few key strokes what object or procedure call you're wanting to type in). It's very similar to "auto correct" when texting. I wish I had a dollar for everybody who warned us code jockeys that project managers would do their own coding without IT training. Very little of that happened. If anything it whet their appetite for the benefits of hiring a professional to get all the goody out of the system.
26,000 illegal but very capable computer geek Chinese, sitting on their own property IN the USA, constituting a de-facto Chinese nation unto itself, with a super computer and we can kiss OUR America good bye.
I’m not worried about an army of military aged males, One computer, One computer geek and One floating balloon satellite and . . . . .
Actually, Docs are going to get hit hard by AI
What is will do is allow a very skilled programmers to code and de bug larger, more complex projects with far fewer people.
Automating documentation and program mapping can also save lots of time and effort.
Judging by a previous story here on FR about DEI destroying the medical profession, it sounds like Docs are going to need a good AI to tell them what to do...
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