Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said at the NVIDIA AI Summit in India that AI may perform 1,000 times better than human employees for some jobs, but it will never be able to replace humans in playing a role.
"It's now, when we're talking, it's impossible for AI to do what we're doing," he said. Depending on the work we do, AI can do 20% of our work 1,000 times better. For some, it can even do 50% of the job 1000 times better. But in any job, AI can't be 100% better than humans. "
When asked if he "thinks AI will take his job," Huang said, "Absolutely not." Instead, Huang said he sees an opportunity for the workforce to use AI to complete tasks and speed up workflows. He also envisions a future where workers will apply AI as "assistants" to automate their tasks.
"The real threat won't be AI taking over," he said. More likely, those who use AI to automate 20% will take over your work. "
Huang has long been a proponent of using AI to automate some of his work. He has previously said that he wants Nvidia to become a company with "100 million AI assistants." He said the hope is that Nvidia will one day become a company with 50,000 employees and 100 million AI assistants across all departments of the company, which will further increase the company's productivity.
Huang also emphasized that while AI will change "every job," deploying AI in companies can secure jobs, not hurt them. The role of human employees, he said, is to choose between "trillions" of problems and decide what problems to solve, and robots can later help automate solutions. As the company's productivity increases, this will lead to hiring more people.