You’re not productive if you don’t use a lot of AI, says guy who makes all of his money selling AI hardware
CEO suggests raising employee costs by fifty percent and is immediately fired.
Sorry, we don’t live in a sane world anymore.
“And to not get mysteriously laid off”
Highly paid asshole says shit and instead of ignoring it gets all the attention.
No shit, CEO of company producing AI hardware wants everyone to use their hardware more. 🤷♂️
because they know the AI is about to go bust, and its not generating any actual value.
BREAKING NEWS: Guy who sells AI hardware says his employees must use more AI.
They’ve all realized there’s no point in even bothering to hide the grift anymore. People don’t care.
It would take a great burden from my shoulders, if AI could wash my clothes, do the dishes, cook, and vacuum my apartment. Those are the things I don’t want to do. I like my job. I can do it myself. Yeah, sure, there are occasionally things that AI can do for me in my daily work, but it’s mostly stupid, repetitive shit. And then I have to review it, which sucks even harder.
Sam Altman floated paying employees in chatGPT tokens, that surely their landlord will accept. The main motive would be being broke. Nvidia is not broke, but it is weird as fuck to be comparing it to salary, if it doesn’t segue into the OpenAI plan. The $500k salary example would seem to generate more tokens than you could have time to skim over in review.
He’s sooo close to arriving at crypto tokens.
uh oh… if only GPUs could do proof of work mining, if the AI thing gets oversupplied.
Managers should send 100 emails per day to be fully productive
100 AI-written emails per day
And also have their AIs read another 100 emails for them.
and dictate to them with AI generated voice.
Just have an LLM ask another LLM questions for a couple hours a day. That should hit that target.
I’d say not before the bosses and shareholders agree to take 50% of their compensation in the form of AI tokens.
These fucking leeches…
Wasn’t the whole point of LLMs basically free advanced labor for these douchebags? Paying half a price of labor on top of paying for labor seems pretty pathetic. Full denial mode eh?
Jensen compared today’s AI tools to machinery that was invented during the industrial revolution
They really want this to be an apt comparison and it’s really not
Edit
It seems that the Nvidia CEO isn’t the only one investing in AI tokens for his employees to freely use.
They also really want to talk about tokens like they’re some kind of currency
The tokens as currency thing feels exactly like gaming microtransaction bullshit to me. Obscure the true cost of each purchase by selling in-game currency. Dark patterns lead to higher spending.
With my trusty LLM, I follow the steps recommending that I try reaching inside the die press to look for any jammed parts that could have caused the machine to suddenly stop working. My coworker, who my boss sent to assist me based on instructions from her LLM, asks his LLM how to help me. My coworker’s LLM recommends that he check if the emergency stop button has been pulled…
Sure I don’t get any retirement or healthcare benefits, but look at all the company scrip I get for the sloppy autocomplete that is stealing all my groundwater no matter how many times someone says „closed loop cooling“.
Just a few days ago they were indeed talking about giving tokens as bonus.
That’s one the most insanely stupid things I’ve ever heard. Tokens are a tool used to do your job, a business expense, not fucking compensation.
Are the kWh that you use to light and air condition an office part of your compensation? How about toner and paper in the office printer?
If those tokens are a bonus, they’re yours, right? So you can burn half your annual salary worth of tokens translating Microsoft Encarta 95 into Klingon, and they will foot the bill?
Is company chit still illegal if it’s a bonus?
They also really want to talk about tokens like they’re some kind of currency
i think it is better than pizza fridays for them, because they probably can’t barter pizza for free.
I didn’t read it that way. I think he’s saying “bosses: if you’re paying a $100k salary to a dev and not also paying $50k for tokens, your dev isn’t working hard enough”. Which is better, but only just.
To refine that even further, he doesn’t appear to imply that the dev isn’t WORKING hard enough, only that they’re not being OPTIMALLY PRODUCTIVE.
What he’s trying to do, really is float and normalize the concept of baking tokens into HR math in terms of a “golden ratio”… which happens to be 2:1.
So, when a company goes all in on ai, and they cut thier workforce in half, they’ll need to add in 50% for tokens. 50% of the original staff, at a new 150% cost, puts the company at 75% pre ai workforce cost. This is the “guidelines” they’re trying to normalize.
It’s funny how his calculation factors in the completely immaterial price of tokens variable instead the material one which is the number of tokens or better yet the productivity gain per token.
I think he’s saying slaves should owe their soul to the company store.
Don’t give this sack of shite the benefit of doubt.
he needs new jackets.
He didn’t explicitly say it, but the language in use gels with the ones that have
Can’t wait to to see AI that designs chips driving Nvidia out of business
They’re allegedly already vibe coding drivers so it’s bound to happen eventually
You can’t vibe code IC design. Look at the number of humans in the world that design advanced ICs. It’s a really low number for a highly specialized skill. Layout requires spacial awareness at a high level, which an LLM does not have.
Noone talks about LLM here. I’m talking about building new specialized model for that
This man went from high to low REAL fast.
ifs hes in the news this much like altman, they seem very DESPERATE like the bubbles about to pop.
The secret is he’s always been low, nvidia has intermittently pulled tons of shady shit basically ever since the 3dfx days
What did they do?
Closed source linux drivers is not nice, but also not shady.
The billionaire’s way
Idk when he was every regarded highly by Nvidia users/consumers. Only by corporate board and investors
