Jensen Huang says an incorrect nine-year-old prediction about AI shows why it won't destroy jobs

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is much optimistic than those who foretell AI volition destruct people's jobs, and helium utilized a nine-year-old prediction to show why.

During a wide-ranging speech astir AI connected The Joe Rogan Experience, Huang referred to a prediction made successful 2016 by Geoffrey Hinton, a machine idiosyncratic and ex-vice president astatine Google who is known arsenic the "Godfather of AI."

Hinton said past that "people should halt grooming arsenic radiologists now" because, successful 5 years, AI would beryllium amended than humans astatine representation recognition.

"What's ironic, though, is that the fig of radiologists has really grown," Huang told Rogan, adding: "Today, conscionable astir each radiologist is utilizing AI successful immoderate way."

To recognize AI's interaction connected jobs, "you person to spell backmost to what is the intent of a job," Huang added.

"The intent of a radiologist is to diagnose disease, not to survey the image. The representation studying is simply a task successful work of diagnosing the disease," helium added.

He said that, arsenic AI made representation studying faster and much precise, radiologists became capable to bash much tests, which successful crook meant hospitals had much clients.

"When they person amended economics, they prosecute much radiologists," helium added.

A survey by the American College of Radiology, published successful February, predicted the fig of radiologists successful America would turn by up to 40% betwixt 2023 and 2055.

In March, the New York Times revisited Hinton's prediction. It reported Hinton had told it helium didn't "make wide that helium was speaking purely astir representation analysis, and was incorrect connected timing but not the direction."

In May, Huang told the Milken Institute's Global Conference: "You're not going to suffer your occupation to an AI, but you're going to suffer your occupation to idiosyncratic who usage AI."

He besides dismissed a prediction aboriginal this twelvemonth from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who said that 50% of entry-level jobs would beryllium destroyed arsenic AI becomes much capable.

On the podcast, Huang said that immoderate jobs that tin beryllium much easy automated volition go, but that this volition apt make caller industries.

"I'm ace excited astir the robots Elon's moving on. It's inactive a fewer years away. When it happens, there's a full caller manufacture of technicians and radical who person to manufacture the robots," helium said.

"You're going to person a full apparel manufacture for robots. You're going to person mechanics for robots. And you person radical who travel to support your robots," helium added.