Fareed asks Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang whether AI will help — or harm — people’s capacity for critical thinking.

The release of Open AI's ChatGPT has accelerated the development of artificial intelligence and warnings about its impact on society.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang spoke about the transformative potential of artificial intelligence, describing it as one of the most extraordinary technologies ever created. He encourages widespread adoption of AI, noting that all Nvidia employees are urged to use it in their work, and highlights the accessibility of programming through natural language.

Huang responded to concerns about AI diminishing critical thinking by stressing the importance of using AI as a tool for learning and problem-solving, rather than as a substitute for human thought. He advocates for critical engagement with AI-generated answers and supports the development of global safety standards. Huang predicts that, despite some risks, the overall impact of AI will be overwhelmingly positive.

Nvidia CEO on the ‘overwhelmingly positive’ effects of AI

With all the hype and fear around AI, it's easy to lose sight of what it can actually do for you. I ask NVIDIA's CEO, Jensen Huang, just that question. Jensen, everyone looks at AI and they're fascinated, they're dazzled, but they're scared. What do you say to people if somebody were to say to you, I'm entering this world of AI and I'm 20 years old, I'm 40 years old, what should I do? First of all, recognizing that this technology is the most extraordinary of technologies that the world has ever created. This is the reason why it's created now and not 100 years ago. The ability for us to create a computer that can be seemingly intelligent and to manufacture intelligence of such a broad range of capabilities and do it at such a large scale, of course, is something that is really impactful. The thing that I would do, and I encourage everybody, 100% of NVIDIA employees are encouraged to use AI. 100% of our software engineers already use AI. 100% of our chip designers use AI. I encourage it to the point of mandating it. You once said that this is the revenge of the English major, meaning that you can now code just using English, right? The programming language of computers in the future is English or whatever language you choose. This is really just such an extraordinary thing. What I would recommend for anybody who's concerned about AI, go use AI. Chachapiti is so incredibly useful. There's Chachapiti, there's Gemini Pro, there's Perplexity, there's Grok. There's a lot of different, and I use all four of them. What do you make of this MIT study where they had people use AI, use just search and not use it, and then at the end of it, they asked them to do cognitive tests, and the people who had used AI scored the worst? Which it sort of makes some intuitive sense. If you rely a lot on a machine to do all the thinking for you, when you're then asked to think, maybe those muscles have gotten slower. How should we, what would you do in a situation like that? Well, first of all, I haven't looked at that research yet, but I have to admit, I'm using AI literally every single day. And I think my cognitive skills are actually advancing. Yeah. And the reason for that is because I'm not asking it to think for me. I'm asking it to teach me things that I don't know or help me solve problems that I otherwise wouldn't be able to solve reasonably. So that's important to say, don't use it as a crutch for things you can do. Use it for things you can't do. I'm not exactly sure what people are using it for that would cause you to not have to think. But you have to think. For example, the idea of prompting an AI, the idea of asking questions. For example, you're spending most of your time today asking me questions. In order to ask good questions, it's a highly cognitive skill. And as a CEO, I spend most of my time asking questions. And 90% of my instructions are actually conflated with questions. It is veiled within questions. And when I'm interacting with AI, it's a questioning system. You're asking questions. And so I think that in order to formulate good questions, you have to be thinking, you have to be analytical, you have to be reasoning yourself. In order to, when you receive an answer from an AI, I wouldn't just receive it. Usually what I do is I say, are you sure this is the best answer you can provide? I take the answer from one AI. I give it to the other AI. I ask them to critique itself. This is no different than getting three opinions, three doctor's opinions. I do the same thing. I ask the same question of multiple AIs. And I ask them to compare each other's notes and then give me the best of all the answers. And so I think that process of critiquing, criticizing the answers of your critical thinking enhances cognitive skills. And so all the people who were taking those tests, I would advise that they apply critical thinking. So we're going to be OK? We are going to have to stay diligent, never take our eyes off the ball, just like we do with all things that we build, that we're excited about. Most technologies that are revolutionary, the truth of the matter is the engineers take it very seriously. And they're doing a good job to try to build it safely, advance it safely. I think we need to have global standards. I think we ought to talk about safety. We ought to have amazing people like Jeff Hinton remind us that this technology is incredibly powerful, that we have to dedicate as much attention to advancing its capability as well as advancing safety. All of this is helpful. But my prediction is that it will be overwhelmingly positive. Some harm will be done. The world has to jump on top of it when that happens, but it will be overwhelmingly, overwhelmingly, incredibly powerful. Jianxin Huang, thank you so much for doing this. Thank you very much. Thank you.

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Nvidia CEO on the ‘overwhelmingly positive’ effects of AI

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