Jensen Huang Believes AI Can Program and Kids Shouldn't Learn It

RE: Jensen Huang Believes AI Can Program and Kids Shouldn't Learn It

kmikemoo — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 03:08:35 GMT

I take all this with a grain of salt. "MODBUS is dead." "Desktop PC's are dead." When I got into Amateur Radio a few years ago, the thing I was interested in - email over radio - "was dead".

What I've seen is that NONE of these is dead. The folks promoting their technology want you to believe that it is the only choice, but the reality is that it doesn't deliver what you hope it will - not yet. Sometimes, not ever. And the old stuff... still serves the purpose that it did in the past.

AI is a paving block on the path. It is not the destination.

RE: Jensen Huang Believes AI Can Program and Kids Shouldn't Learn It

DAB — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 19:36:21 GMT

If such a thing comes to pass, I see nothing good coming from it.

RE: Jensen Huang Believes AI Can Program and Kids Shouldn't Learn It

beacon_dave — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 12:11:07 GMT

I guess you could flip the problem on its head. If you take the 'Library of Babel' approach, then every program that has ever been written, or that is yet to be written effectively already exists in the 'library'. You just have to find the right 'page, chapter, shelf, bookcase, room' where the correct permutation of sequence of bytes is for the user requirement. As AI is pretty good at the brute force statistical approach, then its just a matter of time for it to match the required sequence of bytes with the user's specification.

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Catwell — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 08:13:09 GMT

I've seen AI step in and crush so many jobs already. So, it's disruptive for sure.

I tried using AI to generate some code for an arduino. It didn't work for me.

I wanted an Arduino mega to control a dozen or so solenoids. Cascading them, random actuation, etc - and it just wouldn't compile and work.

So, until something simple like that is addressed, IDK if Jensen Huang is right here. It's one thing to have AI write a subpar story, paper or draw some pictures, but controlling a whole system like an arduino with common spoken language might be some time yet.

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dougw — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 03:59:55 GMT

It is conceivable that AI may be asked to do all of our thinking for us, and perhaps it could do a reasonable job of it, but there are too many people who want power and control for them to give up the option of thinking.

This all leads to some scary questions:

Will there be a tipping point where AI accelerates without the ability to stop it?

When will that tipping point happen?

Has it already happened?

It the mean time, I will continue to participate on this forum without any use of generative AI, even if I can no longer compete successfully....[emoticon:fbd079a1c4f748c5a234faee215de9cc]

RE: Jensen Huang Believes AI Can Program and Kids Shouldn't Learn It

misaz — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 23:14:15 GMT

What about AI designing GPUs? What Nvidia employees think about it?

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beacon_dave — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 22:04:36 GMT

Even with the advances in NLP, then I'd imagine you would still have to describe in enough detail everything the program was required to do, so you would probably still end up writing some sort of pseudocode primarily to specify all the details required in order to get the exact functionality you required. Perhaps more like another layer of abstraction from coding as we currently know it.

RE: Jensen Huang Believes AI Can Program and Kids Shouldn't Learn It

genebren — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 21:07:00 GMT

I am not too sure about this. Look at self-driving cars, have they made it such that everybody can quit learning to drive? I don't think so. Engineering, both electronics and computer programming have brought us to this point, where AI is starting to be useful. Why would we remove actual intelligence when there is so much more to discover.