‘Everything is Going to Be Robotic’ Nvidia Promises, as AI Gets More Real

A host of new AI robotic demos, led by Nvidia, have people questioning the future of employment ... and ... reality, while Jensen Huang states that his ultimate ambition is to automate Nvidia entirely. Work has already begun on this, but I show, with interviews and papers, that things might not be so simple to predict.

[ZanDatsu]

I'm ahead of the game in the sense that I am already an economically non-viable human.

[nate_d]

Trust me, if AI makes a company more profitable, the company will not share that with the employees. I don't know why people insist that companies will. There have been many performance technologies that have already been adopted over the last 50 years, and the average wage has stagnated during that same time. Face the facts, companies are now ONLY about shareholders' profit at ANY expense.

[jasonbartlett]

As a Gen-X'er, who bought into the idea of working hard "for the man" for ~40 plus years - hoping eventually I would be able to retire and finally pursue the hobbies that I had little time to explore while working and raising a family - I'm finding it somewhat ironic that I'll be passing on the mantle to AI and robots, rather than to the next generation and sharing my retirement with potentially millions of job-displaced millennials and Gen-Z'ers. I hope that doesn't come across wrong or offensive to anyone. I'm a life-long science fiction fan, and always imagined a future where humanity enjoyed the return of "free-time"/"leisure-time" brought about by an AI/robot pervasive society. But I thought that was 100+ years away, not potentially reachable in my lifetime. And now that it is on the near horizon, I'm a bit miffed that I'm just barely the wrong age to benefit from it. I'm just tired. Please, please, have AI accelerate cures for disease, for old age, and build amazing artificial organs for me before I need them! LOL

[MichaelUrocyon]

"When people talk about a jobs apocalypse [...] There is a range of scenarios, and it's not some external event like a pandemic that is happening to us. But it's a thing that *totally depends on decisions by policymakers but also by organizations that implement AI*"

So you're saying we're fucked

[zek]

Good video as always, but I'd like to see a little more skepticism of the claims of people like Nvidia executives, who are massively profiting from the public being hyped about AI. They have every incentive to exaggerate.

[ShadyRonin]

The positivity around jobs sticking around is darkly hilarious. We are inventing generalized automation machines that can automate ANYTHING, present, past and future. They work 24/7, don’t take vacations, don’t get sick, don’t protest or complain, and they work orders of magnitude faster and cheaper than a human employee. Anyone suggesting we will not see jobspocaylpse either has a vested interest in downplaying this crisis or haven’t thought hard enough about what’s happening.

[MURDRD]

You need to do a video about the cost of running these models. Like the literal cost of electricity and how it's generated. There is so much focus on the advancements right now, which is cool or whatever ....but there is a price for all this virtual work in the physical world. It all costs energy. And only a small amount is generated by renewables.

[Blanksmithy]

To be clear, the coffee shop was almost entirely operated by the two humans.

The robots were only there to deliver the cups, essentially a glorified Roomba.

[timseguine]

I want to photoshop Jensen's face onto the ancient aliens meme guy, and caption it "ROBOTS"

[capitalistdingo]

In 3 years, when I’m trying to get my store’s floor swept quickly after closing before the manager on duty finishes the paperwork so we don’t have to stay past quitting time, I’ll remember today’s predictions of the end of employment in 3 years. And I’ll have a chuckle.

I hope, on that day, the customers don’t stay in the store past closing with us holding the locked door open and waiting at the cash so they can leave at their very slow leisure. Especially if I have to work the early shift the next day. I hate having to wait while they slowly shop after closing when I need to get sweeping. But still, I’ll chuckle on that day about the end of work predictions. June 2027.

[KillTheWizard]

Taking the LSAT tomorrow and can’t help but to wonder how the field will look in a decade.

[Atomix]

Its quite obvious to me there’s a fundamental under-appreciation of humanity from Jenhsun but the world seem happy to just let him carry out his dystopian view without much pushback. Its like that dog inside burning house meme.

[Leon_George]

Question: Would a company like Nvidia say anything to the contrary?
Answer: No
Conclusion: This statement doesn't necessarily mean much.

[liamdillon]

I liked a quote I read recently - the manager won’t lose their job to AI. They’ll lose their job to the other manager who uses AI

[anonymes]

Always appreciate the sensible tone of your stuff. Basically, what i'm seeing so far is a lot of (sometimes amazing) bells and whistles like realistic voice interaction etc. BUT added to models that still hallucinate like crazy. I just can't see this new industrial revolution happening until they fix that.

[amesssagefromnoone]

Loved the video. But ending on "watching it all unfold" does leave the viewer feeling powerless. Encouraging viewers to engage with the issues of AI in their own communities would be really powerful.

[kevinnugent]

I don't have to outrun the Bear. I only have to outrun you

[SatanDotExe]

The statement that employment as we know will end in 3-5 years, even if it's not within 5 years, it's a matter of time.

[Nathaniel_Bush_Ph.D.]

The author of that paper was mostly claiming that a lot of knowledge work, especially remote work, would be replaced in 3-5 years. She pointed out that jobs requiring a human touch and/or emotional interaction, as well as those requiring fine motor movements and skilled work (e.g. plumbing) would likely persist far longer.

[Pyseph]

for 6:55, I wish you could have mentioned that there's no statistics on how much more "accurate" it is. Obviously an AI-trained tool will be leagues more performant then what's a genuine full-blown physics simulation algorithm, but the cost of these estimations usually is worse accuracy. The upscaled data looks interesting, but I'm worried it could simply have been hallucinated to some extent.