Nvidia Boss Predicts Death of Coding as Kids Rely on AI

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicted the death of coding in his speech at the World Government Summit in Dubai.

According to TechRadar, Huang argued that, due to the rapid advancements made by artificial intelligence (AI), learning to code should no longer be a priority for those looking to enter the tech sector.

Learning to code has long been considered a vital skill pushed by many industry leaders as integral to individual, corporate, and industrial success. However, Huang's statements aimed at breaking the tradition and ditching coding for the most part due to the development of generative AI, such as natural language processing being able to code, eradicating the need for young professionals to spend hundreds of hours learning specific coding languages.

"It is our job to create computing technology such that nobody has to program. And that the programming language is human, everybody in the world is now a programmer," he said at the summit. "This is the miracle of artificial intelligence."

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He added that the time otherwise spent learning to code should instead be used to invest in expertise in industries like farming, biology, manufacturing, and education. However, he stressed that some skills would still be needed to know when and where to use AI programming.

Huang said that upskilling is the way forward and that it would provide knowledge of how and when to use AI programming. He further stated that natural language processing would advance to the point where the only language needed to code would be their native language.

However, a Purdue University study highlighted that AI tools like ChatGPT got more than half the programming questions wrong. Moreover, plenty of experts have pointed out that previous technologies have promised to kill a certain field, only for that tech to end up being used alongside traditional methods.