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Software Is Eating the World, But AI Is Going To Eat Software, Nvidia CEO Says (technologyreview.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Nvidia's revenues have started to climb in the recent quarters as it looks at making hardware customized for machine-learning algorithms and use cases such as autonomous cars. At the company's annual developer conference in San Jose, California last week, the company's CEO Jensen Huang spoke about how the machine-learning revolution is just starting. "Very few lines of code in the enterprises and industries all over the world use AI today. It's quite pervasive in Internet service companies, particularly two or three of them," Huang said. "But there's a whole bunch of others in tech and other industries that are trying to catch up. Software is eating the world, but AI is going to eat software."
I'm far from convinced that so-called 'AI' (LOL) is going to 'eat' anything (other than perhaps two-digit IQ venture capitalists' money), but if it's going to eat anything, I'd like to see it eat the jobs of tech pundits who have no bloody idea what they're talking about (and/or are talking out of their asses, just to get the aforementioned VCs' monies flowing in their direction); I think even the half-assed 'deep learning algorithms' (again, LOL) would do a better job than these fools who are continually running off at the mouth.
Yes, we're very much at the start of the new tech hype cycle
Keep in mind that most tech hype is actually correct, even if premature. People laughed in the 1980s when hypers predicted that home computers would be popular, and in the workplace there would be a computer on every desk. But that is what happened. Likewise, people rolled their eyes in the 1990s at the notion that online shopping would be popular, and many people predicted that smartphones and social media were passing fads.
Well, no. I didn't reject the notion of PCs, or ecommerce. I do reject the notion of "AI" becoming a thing in my lifetime. First of all, what's being hyped as AI is not AI, as AI has been defined. At most, we're talking about "machine learning", not the same thing at all.