Nvidia CEO Foresees AI Competing with Human Intelligence in Five Years

Don't get me wrong, its completely possible that actual AI will come about in that time frame, but what they're talking about is turning predictive text and image generators into something on par with true sentience, which it is not really something this tech is capable of in my eyes*, the main reason this tech is being called AI is because that makes it much more marketable

As for a time frame, I have no idea. I personally believe that if TRUE AI is invented, it will either be something that happens on the basis of a new technology that we have not yet discovered, and it will happen overnight, or it will happen accidentally using existing technology in areas we arent looking for it.

• it occurs to me that by "compete with" they may mean in the job market, which is something this tech can currently do in some fields (poorly), but since it steals the work of actual humans to do so, its not really that the "AI" would be getting better to the point of competing, it would simply be that the people in charge get better at hiding the theft to the point that the content would actually seem original

Reads just like crypto hype. “The killer application is right around the corner! It’s almost here, I swear!”

That's what I was thinking. I foresee him retiring on fat stacks of cash in 5 years, that he made by pumping up the stock price with claims he won't have to worry about fulfilling

"Don't be a prospector, be the person selling goods to prospectors."

~ paraphrase of an idea we've all likely heard

Ah, of course. Well done.

Meh, I can’t be arsed. I’ve more important things to do like drink.

I'm not saying tax them to stop it, but to stop wealth inequality.

Here we tax pollution, but companies still pollute. But the government can use the tax money to try and offset the pollution.

If no one has a job, there are no customers.

Rational self-interest can only operate alone for so long. Then all the rules change, one way or another.

But automation encompasses more than just AI with human intelligence. For the other cases, it should be taxed and the money used to fund more social nets.

Yes all the big tech companies are in desperate need of more money, the poor things.

Automation wont stop because of taxes... There needs to be money, for the people that loses jobs to automation. The products wont get cheaper with more automation.

I wouldn't want to move to a third world country like america, where the low taxes that are paid by the little guy, are used to help the big guy. I'm fine living in a country, where my relatively high taxes can make the country even better.

Because knowledge work is never ending. There's always more to do.

As an American, I've worked with lots of my European counterparts over the years, and trying to get things done can be downright painful.

We're across multiple time zones, and Europeans refuse to be on a call that isn't in their typical work hours.

Kind of problematic when there's no one "time" where a Central Time American can be on a call during his work hours while a Brit, German, and an Estonian do to.

Multiple people will have to be flexible here, and assuredly it won't be our Western Europe peers.

There are things like change windows, to reduce risk of downtime for users. Those are established by when the users utilize the resources being changed. Sometimes that means I work a normal day, and get back on things at midnight or 2am to make a change and validate it. It needs to be done then, it's important, it's been entered into a massive scheduling system which tracks resources: subcontractor time, staff time, access to things like VM hosts to ensure our change doesn't conflict with other changes to shared hosts/network/power, etc. Many internal and external organizations can be involved in changes, the external generally incur additional cost, so we try to combine as many changes as possible to minimize that cost.

This is just one small example of the coordination involved in herding the cats of large infrastructure.

SMB is much easier, far fewer people and system impacts, practically no change management, so if something happens days later, tracing it back to those changes can be difficult or impossible. It's more wild-west, with knowledge retained in a small set of admins. Even there it can take many conversations between local power, remote power, subcontractors, vendors, telco, cloud providers, etc to manage changes. These can all be geographically disparate (I have a friend with a client with operations in CA, CO, NM, WV, MO). That's 3 time zones, with vendors, subcontractors, and contracts in all of them, under varying legal jurisdictions and regulatory domains. Something as simple as updating/replacing a remote monitor cell router can take months of conversations. Without the upgrade, they're in violation of state and federal regulations, with fines that can be $10k/day or more.

Just because you have no idea what other people do, doesn't make it any less important or valuable. Any boss is very appreciative when you stay on a call "past 5" to help prevent being fined like that. (I've been on calls that lasted 24hrs+, over Thanksgiving).