Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has some advice and he says that almost everyone will benefit from following it: Get an AI tutor.
“I’ve always had a personal (artificial intelligence) tutor, and I think that feeling should be universal,” fans told journalist Cleo Abram’s YouTube interview show, “Giant Conversation.”
This is an AI-powered virtual tutor and not a person who can teach you how to use AI more effectively. “If there’s one thing that encourages everyone to do, you can go and become an AI tutor right away,” says Huang.
Huang’s Favorite Private Tutor is Perplexity’s AI-powered search engine, called “really useful” tool in an interview with the Bipartisan Policy Center last year. He uses it every day to learn about many subjects, including digital biology, he added. Search engines, like many other generation AI tools, offer users both free and paid subscription options.
Other AI platforms are designed to act more specifically as tutors, such as the free tutor service Sizzle and Khanmigo AI Tutor from Khan Academy.
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“(AI programs) tell us what you like – it helps you program, helps you write, helps you analyze, helps you think, helps you reason,” Huang told Abram. “All of these things make you feel empowered, and I think that will become our future.”
AI tools come with warnings. They still make de facto errors frequently and experts say you need to use them to help your work to do your job. Huang wrote the first draft of his own work using his favorite AI tools, noting at last year’s wired event.
However, he hopes within the next decade, most people will help them learn more easily and quickly in almost any kind of environment, he told Abram.
“I think in the next decade, for some things, not everything, but for some things — basically, I think,” Huang adds, “We become superhumans, not because we have superhumans.
AI Tutors Make Huang “more confident”
Huang has a vested interest in preaching the value of AI, and the growing popularity of technology could become a double-edged sword. According to a Gallup survey in August 2024, roughly 75% of Americans are worried that the technology will ultimately reduce human work. According to a 2023 survey by consulting group McKinsey, AI can automate approximately half of all human “work activities” by 2030 by 2030.
AI will actually help employees work more efficiently, but it will be a temporary benefit, current Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman wrote in his 2023 book, The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, The Greatest Dilemma of the 21st Century.
“They make us smarter, more efficient for a while, and unleash huge amounts of economic growth, but they are fundamentally replacing the workforce,” he wrote, adding that the spread of AI will be extremely unstable for hundreds of millions of people who need to “re-skill and move to a new type of work.”
As expected, Huang disagrees. As CEO of Nvidia, he is surrounded by thousands of smart employees. It “actually empowers me and gives me the confidence to tackle something increasingly ambitious.”
The same logic applies to AI, he said: “Now, let’s assume that everyone is surrounded by these super AIs who are very good at certain things… what does it feel to you? Well, it’s going to empower you.
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