At the World Government Summit, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang broke with an old tradition where young people are advised by technology CEOs to learn programming at all costs. He said that even if AI is still at an early stage, it is better to leave it to them and it is no longer a vital skill. Young people should rather focus on valuable skills such as biology, manufacturing or agriculture.
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, argues that we should stop saying kids should learn to code.
He argues the rise of AI means we can replace programming languages with human language prompts thus enabling everyone to be a programmer.
AI will kill coding.pic.twitter.com/SxK9twhEby
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In the tweet above, Jensen Huang talked about how in the last 10-15 years, almost everyone who has stepped onto a technology stage at some point has insisted that it’s “vital” for young people to learn computer science. But in fact, the exact opposite is true: it’s more important to be educated in vital areas, such as biology, education, manufacturing and agriculture. This would allow people to speak the language in which they are experts from birth.
“It is our job to create computing technology such that nobody has to program. And that the programming language is human,” Jensen Huang told the summit attendees. “Everybody in the world is now a programmer. This is the miracle of artificial intelligence.”
via Jensen Huang
However, people still need to know how and when to use AI programming. That’s why Huang emphasizes at the end of the short clip: “It’s crucial that we educate everyone, and I believe the education process will be enjoyable and surprising.”
The clip inspired technology industry analyst Patrick Moorhead to comment and point out to his X followers: “I’ve been hearing for over 30 years that XYZ will kill coding, but we still don’t have enough programmers.” Here he named several programming languages and tools that would supposedly “kill” coding, but so far this is not the case.
He also drew parallels with the computer DTP revolution and said that AI would not kill coding, but that it would be in the hands of more people. So desktop publishing hasn’t killed “creativity” either, it has simply expanded it.
Only in the coming months and years will it become clear what impact AI will have on the labor market. In a recent study published by Bloomberg, the amount of freelance work since the release of ChatGPT was outlined. It found that writing and translation freelancers are the most affected by AI. However, since the release of ChatGPT, software developer jobs have increased by 6%.
Source: TomsHardware
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