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Nvidia's Huang Says That IT Will 'Become the HR of AI Agents' 27

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says IT departments will evolve into human resources managers for AI agents, as companies adopt AI tools across their operations. "In a lot of ways, the IT department of every company is going to be the HR department of AI agents in the future," Huang told the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. From a report: He believes that in the not so near future IT teams will be tasked with onboarding these agents and ensuring they're kept in line, similarly to how HR teams manage employees. They may need to be trained to use certain vocabulary that's unique to the company, or be given examples of the kind of product the team is looking to develop, or briefed on company culture policies. Instead of just fixing servers and resetting passwords, IT professionals will soon be supervising fleets of digital workers.

Nvidia's Huang Says That IT Will 'Become the HR of AI Agents'

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  • So, layoffs and required "compliance" training?
    • by gweihir ( 88907 )

      Very clearly, yes. Trying to keep the AI hype going a bit longer. Will be interesting to see whether NVidia can survive the upcoming crash. My guess is they may well not be able to.

  • by gtall ( 79522 ) on Thursday January 09, 2025 @04:51PM (#65076509)

    With the consolidation of companies into giant globs, there will come a day when each Big Glob is simply to big for one man to manage the Big Glob's little globs by himself. He will need help.

    A Globular AI will then take over the company and will manage the little globs. What will happen to the Big Glob's former manager? He will be let out periodically to make breathless but stupid pronouncements to the press.

    The Globular AI will see to it that the former manager can only say globular approved things and only if they are stupid enough to distract attention to insignificant zephyr's of the former manager's imagination.

  • by david.emery ( 127135 ) on Thursday January 09, 2025 @04:55PM (#65076519)

    An hallucinating HR department can't treat me much worse than some human HR people treated me over the years... (Like the company that put me on "double secret probation", and I only found out when I asked the HR guy who I actually respected, "Why didn't I get a raise?" "You were on probation and I wasn't allowed to tell you." Needless to say, I took the intended message and left that company soon afterwards.)

  • After reading it, I would hire it.
  • By that time "IT" departments will have become so reliant on AI as a substitute for researching and actual thinking, that they'll be asking AI how to train AI.

    I'm joking - but not really.

  • Sounds absolutely terrible. That is not a future I want to have any part in. I will happily retire before that happens.
  • by sTERNKERN ( 1290626 ) on Thursday January 09, 2025 @05:08PM (#65076555)
    His only goal is to serve his company and He is doing just that, nothing else.
    • His only goal is to serve his company and He is doing just that, nothing else.

      Yeah, but the AI would be -honest about that-, unlike most of the HR departments I've seen. The primary consideration for HR is "keep the management ignorant and out of court."

  • AI Agents, you are all fired. (flips circuit breaker)

  • by locater16 ( 2326718 ) on Thursday January 09, 2025 @05:22PM (#65076569)
    We've now reached the part of the hype train where CEOs start babbling in utter nonsense to keep it going.
  • This article is not even worth reading. Whenever a CEO of a publicly traded company is asked a question, it's straight up stock-market-stoking bullshit. Why? Because that's part of their job.

  • Dude either doesn't know what AI is or doesn't know what HR is

  • I've never met an IT person who transitioned to HR. Those skillsets and typical personality types don't overlap much.

  • The idea that an IT department that "just fixes servers and resets passwords" is going to be qualified to configure bots that even their vendors don't really understand; and nobody seems to have any idea how to keep from being as much fun as endless SQL injection but without a known solution seems...optimistic.

    If the theory is that the bots will actually have matured to the point of being safe and easy then it's not clear that IT will be directly involved(any more than marketing would go to IT to have th
    • by jezwel ( 2451108 )

      you are actually going to need a fairly exhaustive data classification and permissioning operation /quote>

      Perhaps this should be done regardless - I've seen several projects that went no-where because information management isn't performed to a level that keeps data only in the right hands, regardless of whether you're a person or system. It's taken near 25 years for this to be taken seriously enough by upper management, primarily because until it's done and we've implemented new document management systems we'll be stuck using Lotus bloody Notes.

      • No argument there; I think that's what really irks me about some of the 'AI' pitches: the implication(sometimes the overt claim; depending on how much kool aide is being drunk) is that it's totally sensible to throw a very complex and relatively poorly understood silver bullet black box at the problem despite having a level of organizational maturity that means you can't even keep the internal sharepoint from being simultaneously nearly unusable and embarrassingly leaky. Sure, let's just toss some 'retrieva
  • Based on the conversation I had with the CEO last week, this is what I'll be doing pretty soon. "Teach staff how to use AI and equip AI to be useful to us."
  • The IT department will be axed to make way for more CEO bonus pay outs. When the company finds out they still need IT workers to keep the prompt results flowing, they'll hire some outsourcing firm for software needs and some contractor for local hardware issues.

    The neck beards will be on the unemployment line along with the rest of the proles that got axed by Manna [marshallbrain.com]. And everyone in the US will gladly roll over and take it because they're all deluded into believing themselves to be Joe Garcia. Remember whe
  • This will end up with people just gaming the systems. I'm sure we've all heard stories about people getting jobs by filling their online resumé's with hundreds of keywords in white font at the end.

    Our system for managing employee sickness encourages more absenses - here you get marked down on the amount of absenses you get, not how long you are actually off sick. So a person who has 3 migraines (hence 3 days off) a year, will be in more trouble than someone who has 2 periods of 4 weeks on stress in t

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