Naval Ravikant, a renowned Indian born American entrepreneur and investor has shared his insight on the relevancy of artificial intelligence (AI), forecasting that AI will master bounded problems like full self-driving technology, replacing human drivers, especially in programming will remain irreplaceable.
In a video, viral on X, Ravikant acknowledged AI’s transformative potential but also highlighted its limitation particularly in high-stakes applications. “I do think it’s unbelievably useful. I am glad that it exists,” he said. He pointed out that AI’s tendency to hallucinate makes human oversight necessary for large scale production.
Talking in video, he explained, “You don’t see it much yet in large scale production systems replacing humans with this tendency to hallucinate and maybe they’ll get that 1 out of 10, down to 1 out of a 100, but you’ll kind of always want human oversight for critical things.
Artificial Intelligence’s Roles in Bounded Problems
He emphasises his belief that AI will thrive in a structured and predictable surrounding. He said that “I think self-driving will be solved completely because it’s a bounded problem. Cars don’t go off-road and drive through houses.” Similarly, he highlights that routine coding tasks may be automated, but creative programming will still require human ingenuity.
Coders will gain more leverages
Contrary to fears of AI replacing programmers, the entrepreneur argued that programmers will become even more powerful by leveraging tools. “The creative side of coding doesn’t go away. If anything, programmers get even more leverage and more powerful,” he stated in a video.
In the last, he made a bold prediction that “rather than computing replacing programmers, programmers use AI to replace everybody else.” AI will revolutionize industries by solving well-defined problems, human creativity especially in programming will remain indispensable.