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NVIDIA announces as many as 100 million AI assistants. Jensen Huang’s vision of the future

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One of the companies strongly associated with the development of artificial intelligence is NVIDIA. The manufacturer of the systems that drive the operation of language models does not intend to stop there, and the ambitions of the company’s management are visible at almost every show and conference in which it participates.

In a way, the icon of these activities is the current CEO of the giant, Jensen Huang. It is his subsequent ideas and visions of the future that reach the heads of investors and start-ups, driving the already gigantic income of the technological behemoth.

One of the latest statements by a Taiwanese businessman seems to confirm that everything he says during the conference is not just PR “speech” for investors and potential clients, but something that he himself would like to have in his company.

NVIDIA’s CEO would like 100 million AI assistants to enter the workforce

Bg2 Podcast with Jensen Huang

Jensen Huag was recently a guest on the Bg2 podcast and during the conversation (chapter AI’s Role in Growing Business and Improving Productivity) shared with the hosts one of the visions of the future that he would also like to see in his own company. This is precisely about hordes of AI-powered assistants whose task would be to speed up and improve everyday tasks. Its ambitious plans include introducing up to 100 million such “helpers” to the market. The idea itself sounds very interesting, and what is important, it is very clearly defined by the Taiwanese.

In his opinion, such assistants – working with humans, of course – would perform routine tasks, thus relieving their human “colleagues”. Thanks to this, the second group would devote time only to the key elements of their profession, while maintaining greater efficiency. Of course, all processes and tasks would be synchronized with popular tools and messengers. This would make it easier to supervise such helpers and allow for insight into the effects of their work.

Such a vision may sound extremely interesting and there will certainly be people interested in this type of revolution, but there is also another side to the coin, namely the issue of currently employed employees. Such automation raises significant concerns about layoffs in almost all areas of the economy. After all, such assistants are not only cheaper (in the long run) to maintain, but can also work longer and often more efficiently.

The problem that arises after listening to Jensen seems to affect mainly those low-skilled workers who are unable to perform work other than those defined as routine activities. In this situation, they appear to be the most harmed group.

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Jensen Huang during COMPUTEX 2024 (source: NVIDIA)

However, it turns out that the owner of the technology giant sees this situation completely differently. He claims that AI assistants provide an opportunity for better productivity and the ability to respond faster to market turmoil. This will ultimately lead to higher revenues and, consequently, the creation of new jobs.

Basically, his idea was that people and artificial intelligence could cooperate and support each other in specific processes, tasks or even projects. For Jensen, the use of such assistants could help with employee productivity declines and would also put them in a different position.

NVIDIA’s CEO even stated that a human would be a kind of “CEO for AI” in such a setup.. This is, of course, a bit of an exaggeration, but it is not completely meaningless. After all, a human employee could distribute orders among his “digital assistants” and then hold them accountable.

The vision shared by Jensen in the podcast sounds like a real revolution that we are on the threshold of, but it is worth approaching it a little more critically. Assuming that such changes would apply to all sectors of the economy, it should be borne in mind that not every industry is flexible and dynamic enough to easily adapt to the new realities.

There’s also something you can’t miss nomen omen we will call the “human factor”, i.e. some resistance and the simplest fear of losing jobs. How this all turns out depends solely on us as a society. The only thing we can be sure of is that people like Jensen will be passionate advocates of such changes and they will try to push through the next stages of such transformation.