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Jensen Huang says Nvidia engineers should use AI tokens worth half their annual salary every year to be fully productive (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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You're not productive if you don't use a lot of AI, says guy who makes all of his money selling AI hardware

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[+] 181 points 7 months ago* (20 children)
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  • [–] 70 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    It's worse, they want to change the global economy to corporations paying corporations...

    The total elimation of actual consumers, because none of us will be able to afford to consume enough.

    AI companies need people to pay for AI to keep buying Nvidia chips. So Nvidia is making their employees pay for the AI so AI companies keep buying Nvidia chips.

    It's not a sustainable system, it's just a money churn whose only purpose is to consolidate wealth.

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  • [–] [S] 25 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 45 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago

    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...

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Just a few days ago they were indeed talking about giving tokens as bonus.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    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?

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    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“.

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