Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has once again announced the death of coding, but this time in front of a potentially much more influential audience.
Speaking at the World Government Summit in Dubai, Huang argued that due to the rapid advances made by AI, learning to code should no longer be a priority for those looking to enter the technology sector.
Learning to code has long been a vital skill that many industry leaders consider vital to success, but Huang's latest narrative appears to break this tradition.
Coding is old news, so focus on farming
Thanks to the advances made in the field of generative AI, natural language processing has shown promise as the future of coding, eradicating the need for young professionals to spend hundreds of hours learning specific coding languages.
“Our job is to create computer technology that no one has to program. And that the programming language is human, now everyone in the world is a programmer. This is the miracle of artificial intelligence,” Huang said at the summit.
Time spent learning to code should be invested in experience in industries such as agriculture, biology, manufacturing and education, the Nvidia chief said. It's not all doom and gloom for coding, however, as it will still take some skills 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 advance to the point where the only language needed to code will be your native language.
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