NVIDIA’s CEO (since 1993), who is one of the company’s founder, is pretty technical, so I doubt that. Although he is an EE, not a computer scientist. This isn’t an MBA spouting Markitecture.
You do know that this guy built up NVIDIA from scratch right? Before that, there was some action from 3DFX, but they fizzled and NVIDIA basically invented the modern GPU. He has at least a right to be a bit outlandish in his claims (a real founder CEO vs someone just hired to be CEO after the company was successful), and at least he isn’t Musk.
It’s doubtful that he doesn’t understand some amount of programming. It’s impossible to graduate from EE without a couple of programming quarters/semesters, and these people did invent CUDA and such.
I'm not sure you're getting my implicit point, which is fair because I didn't spell it out. What programming is is not just getting a computer to do something. In many cases, that is the easy part. Programming is just as much if not more so understanding a domain and imparting that to a computer process. Thus, for an AI to be able to do that, we'd solve extra-human intelligence, as even most humans are terrible at system design.
Yes, I would guess that a EE understands how to program a computer to get it to do something. But that isn't all that programming is. So the CEO claiming that we can in the future program via human language is him failing to understand that we already fail at doing this.
My experience with EEs is that they understand programming languages, but typically don’t understand software engineering (creating and maintaining complex systems involving dozens or hundreds of developers). This leads to them to underestimate the skills required.
This makes them perfect critics thoughs. They can code but ignore all our fuckery that seems nonsensical from both outside and inside. My vague estimate is that there’s at least 2-3 guys like this per “true” developer.
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NVIDIA’s CEO (since 1993), who is one of the company’s founder, is pretty technical, so I doubt that. Although he is an EE, not a computer scientist. This isn’t an MBA spouting Markitecture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jensen_Huang
There are lots of technical people who don't understand what programming is.
You do know that this guy built up NVIDIA from scratch right? Before that, there was some action from 3DFX, but they fizzled and NVIDIA basically invented the modern GPU. He has at least a right to be a bit outlandish in his claims (a real founder CEO vs someone just hired to be CEO after the company was successful), and at least he isn’t Musk.
What does any of that have to do with the quote and my comment?
It’s doubtful that he doesn’t understand some amount of programming. It’s impossible to graduate from EE without a couple of programming quarters/semesters, and these people did invent CUDA and such.
I'm not sure you're getting my implicit point, which is fair because I didn't spell it out. What programming is is not just getting a computer to do something. In many cases, that is the easy part. Programming is just as much if not more so understanding a domain and imparting that to a computer process. Thus, for an AI to be able to do that, we'd solve extra-human intelligence, as even most humans are terrible at system design.
Yes, I would guess that a EE understands how to program a computer to get it to do something. But that isn't all that programming is. So the CEO claiming that we can in the future program via human language is him failing to understand that we already fail at doing this.
My experience with EEs is that they understand programming languages, but typically don’t understand software engineering (creating and maintaining complex systems involving dozens or hundreds of developers). This leads to them to underestimate the skills required.
This makes them perfect critics thoughs. They can code but ignore all our fuckery that seems nonsensical from both outside and inside. My vague estimate is that there’s at least 2-3 guys like this per “true” developer.