Future jobs in AI will come with a hardhat and boots, tech bigshots argue

The leaders of the AI world descended on Davos, Switzerland, this week for the World Economic Forum, where they took turns lobbing their best guesses about what the next phase of AI would mean for jobs, as well as whether the AI bubble was real and when it may pop.

In a 30-minute sit-down, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Blackrock CEO Larry Fink that there is no bubble, and pointed out that previous bubbles had encapsulated their markets, whereas AI spending – while it seems big – cuts across nearly every vertical.

“One good test on the AI bubble is to recognize that Nvidia has now millions of Nvidia GPUs in every cloud. We’re everywhere and if you try to rent an Nvidia GPU these days, it's so incredibly hard. The spot price of rentals is going up. Not just the latest generation, but two-generation-old GPUs,” he said during the ...