"Don't Learn to Code, But Study This Instead..." says NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang

Jensen hang co-founder and CEO of Nvidia the company that is at the heart of AI Revolution recently made a comment about what could should learn in the future and let me spoil it to you it's not computer science or programming I'm going to say something and it it's going to sound completely opposite um of what people feel you probably recall uh over the course of the last 10 years 15 years um almost everybody who sits on a stage like this would tell you it is vital that your children learn computer science um everybody should learn

how to program and in fact it's almost exactly the opposite it is our job to create Computing technology such that nobody has to program you up and that the programming language is human at s Ms a full service agency by a co-founder we're in a close relationship with Nvidia and later in this video I will include a clip of what Jenson said people should study which is also in alignment why we expanding our team with people like Amy zolotov who comes from Healthcare collectively we trained and taught close to 20,000 people at this point from

people at all ages and walks of life who subscribe to my channel to the amazing teams at we companies like General electronics and craft Hinds plus we've been developing AI educational material both for universities like Stanford or yiva all the way to developing courses on up liit I think we shows that there is Raising awareness about prompt engineering and the impact that you can have in your organiz ation or your team if you just know better how to work with AI tools and I understand that when a girl on the internet says that prompting is

the new programming language that's one thing but I'm really happy to see that more people kind of receive a message than it is NVIDIA CEO on a stage at the world government Summit saying it out loud everybody in the world is now a programmer this is the miracle this is the miracle of artificial intelligence for the very first time we have closed the Gap the technology divide has been completely closed and this the reason why so many people can engage artificial intelligence it is the reason why every single government every single industrial conference every single

company is talking about artificial intelligence today because for the very first time you can imagine everybody in your company being a technologist this is a tremendous time for uh all of you to realize that the technology divide has been closed I hope people and businesses will take it as a wakeup call and start looking at this quite seriously also to realize that to engage AI is a lot easier now than at any time in the history of computing it is vital that we upskill everyone as for 90% of people prompting is going to just become

easier and easier and there is a good reason for that it's because of smart AI engineers and prompt Engineers working in the background optimizing that chat interface so that a few vague words can be taken processed by way bigger and more extensive prompt or the whole separate AI model by the way all that optimization gets combined into the final prompt and sent to the AI model therefore you get with amazing outcomes like Del tree or co-pilot it starts with a prompt from you in an app co-pilot pre-processes The Prompt through an approach called grounding put

simply grounding improves the quality of the prompt so you get answers that are relevant and actionable one of the most important parts of grounding is making a call to the Microsoft graph to retrieve your business content and context co-pilot combines this user data from the graph with other inputs to improve the prompt it then sends that modified prompt to the llm copilot takes the response from the llm and postprocesses it this postprocessing includes additional grounding calls to the graph responsible AI checks security compliance and privacy reviews and command generation finally co-pilot sends a response to

the user and commands back to the apps it's awesome if you're not specific and you are just really exploring but it also takes away some controls because sometimes these chat Bots get so optimized that it gets horribly hilarious Gemini from Google went viral for absolutely wrong reasons refusing to generate white people and over optimizing for inclusivity and could say stereotypes but kind of phenomenal is but it became stereotypical I'm genuinely curious what impact it will have that Nvidia CEO uh had this hot take but but if you listen between the lines even Sam ultman hinted

at this future I think coding will still be important in the future it's just going to change a little bit or a lot one of the predictions I'm most confident about the future is it's just going to happen much faster than the past did and that you know young people are always the best at adapting to that but now it's going to be extra valuable I think I agree with that framework incredibly much and I think anytime you can choose a skill or a class or an activity to do that you feel aligns with the

learning how to adapt to new technology pick it for sure but on specifics I still think that software is actually a really important skill to build and some of it is it's not going to be about the mechanics it's not going to be about the specifics of the programming language it's not going to be about those details but fundamentally getting computers to do what you intend like that's the world we're heading to and so understanding the low-level details of how it works um that's a starting point and you know we do see people who have

never coded before who have built some who built some of the best AI applications and so that's actually new right that you can actually get computers to do things without having to do it in this like contort yourself to the machine as it is right now anyone can work with AI anybody can instruct AI can you imagine that a couple years ago this ability to interact with AI models was available only to researchers and actual developers and just because it's available to everybody and it's getting easier doesn't mean that people use it in the best

way possible or the most effectively the way I like to think about the stuff is like a spectrum on one side you have like oh my God prompt engineering is the only thing you need to know on whatever spectrum is like oh it doesn't matter programming is going to be still there and it's a solid skill and in our team the way we like to look at things is a bit more leveled yes prompt engineering is important that also is going to change if you think about in a term of 10 years if we all

walk with the neuralink chips in our head this morning Elon Musk announcing that for the first time his company neuralink has implanted a brain ship in a human everything kind of changed again and after the statement from Jensen on the whole of Spectrum there's going to be a group of people who are like okay programmers they are not valued they are not important don't study computer science and stuff like that and I think that's also uh wrong because programming in computer science as Hands-On skill is one thing but what it teaches people is problem solving

and that is a hard skill which won't get absolute anytime soon and I want to say never but we also said that creativity is probably going to be the last um affected by AI which turned out completely opposite so anyway anyway um taking a part being in the middle educate yourself about prompt engineering how to use AI how it works what are ethical uses of that but if you're able to also learn about computer science and how computers work in general develop deeper problem solving and critical thinking really skills with programming that is not going

to hurt you like I myself I talk about prompt engineering but I also decided to take cs50 course to kind of bridge the gap I have when it comes down to programming funny thing that a month ago before Jensen's video came out I made a video where said that domain expertise is going to be extremely important when using AI tools and here's one universal truth when it comes to prompting you as a user have to have domain expertise and use specific language to condition the AI model and steer its responses to the right direction because

if you know your stuff very well not only you will be able to explain it well and make clear instructions but you will also able to detect hallucinations the countries the people that understand how to solve a domain problem in digital bio biology or in education of young people or in manufacturing or in farming those people who understand domain expertise now can utilize technology that is readily available to you you now have a computer that will do what you tell it to do to help automate your work to amplify your productivity to make you more

efficient and so I think that this is just a tremendous time and going back to that question what kids should study in the future this is what Jensen said if I were starting all over again um I would realize uh one thing that one of the most complex fields of science is the understanding of biology human biology not only is it complicated because it's so diverse so complicated so hard to understand living and breathing it is also incredibly impactful complicated technology complicated science incredibly impactful and remember we call this field life sciences and we call

drug Discovery Discovery as if you wander around the universe and I sudden hey look what I discovered nobody in computer science nobody in computers and nobody in the traditional industries that are very large today nobody says car Discovery we don't say computer Discovery we don't say software Discovery we don't go home and say hey honey look what I found today this piece of software we call it engineering and every single year our computer science our software becomes better and better than the than the year before every single year our chips get better every single year

our infrastructure gets better however however Life Sciences is sporadic if I were to do it over again right now I would realize that the technology to turn life science to life engineering is upon us and that digital biology will be a field of engineering not a field of science it will continue to have science of course but not a field just of Science in the future and so I I hope that that this is going to start a whole generation the Albert Einstein College of Medicine will be tuition free of people who enjoy working with

proteins and chemicals and and enzymes and um materials and and they're engineering these amazing things that are more energy efficient that are lighter weight that are stronger that are more sustainable all of these inventions in the future are going to be part of engineering not scientific discovery but if studying is not applicable to you and you want to get into AI or learn how to use it my recommendation to you is to start exploring together with other people so you can exchange DS and tools there are so many resources online that you can definitely dive

into uh there's also a lot of noise and what I learned from mounder Joe who is Educator from his background that there is a lot of science how humans learn and this is why we really enjoy the partnership with the pits because one thing it's life uh you have accountability you have to do real projects for your work for your business for yourself um and then there is this the whole pure Community as well make sure to check out the prit courses we have for image for data analytics um we have ai inbt for everyone

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