Nvidia CEO predicts the death of coding – Jensen Huang says AI will do the work so kids don’t have to learn
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has once again announced the death of coding, but this time for a potentially much more influential audience.
Speaking at the Word Government Summit in Dubai, Huang argued that due to the rapid progress AI is making, learning to code should no longer be a priority for those looking to enter the technology sector.
Learning to code has long been an essential skill that many business leaders consider essential to success, but Huang’s latest story appears to break that tradition.
Coding is old news, so focus on farming
Thanks to advances in generative AI, natural language processing has shown promise as the future of coding, eliminating the need for young professionals to spend hundreds of hours learning specific coding languages.
“Our job is to create computer technology so that no one has to program. And that the programming language is human, everyone in the world is now a programmer. This is the miracle of artificial intelligence,” Huang said at the summit.
Time otherwise spent learning to code should instead be invested in expertise in sectors such as agriculture, biology, manufacturing and education, the Nvidia chief said. It’s not all doom and gloom for coding, however, as certain skills will still be needed to know when and where to use AI programming.
Huang says upskilling is the way forward, and upskilling will provide the knowledge of how and when to use AI programming. He further stated that natural language processing will evolve to the point where the only language needed for coding would be their native language.
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