Valve\u2019s Gabe Newell says young people should learn how to use machine learning systems and AI, calling it a \u2018cheat code\u2019 to success.<\/p>\n
In a rare interview with YouTuber Zalkar Saliev, Valve founder and CEO Gabe Newell spoke about his early days, current technology, and even his stance on using social media. <\/p>\n
Saliev asked Newell what he thinks younger people should do as they\u2019re working towards becoming successful in tech, which prompted the CEO to share his thoughts about the recent AI boom. <\/p>\n
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GabeN says young people should know AI<\/p>\n
\u201cI think at various points there have been significant technology transitions,\u201d he said. \u201cThere was pre-computer and then there was post-computer. There was pre-Internet, and there was post-Internet.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that it\u2019s incredibly obvious that machine learning systems, AI systems, are going to profoundly impact pretty much every single business. So if I had to point to a technology transition to get in front of, it\u2019s to figure out how to use AI to do anything better. <\/p>\n
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\u201cIf you want to be an accountant, learn AI. If you\u2019re going to be an attorney, learn AI\u2026 Essentially, AI is going to be a cheat code for people who want to take advantage of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Back in January 2025, Valve introduced new rules that allow AI-generated content<\/a> to be uploaded to Steam. Just months later, in June, A Titanic Escape Simulator went viral with its clearly AI generated screenshots<\/a>. <\/p>\n Article continues after ad<\/p>\n While there\u2019s a great deal of controversy around the use of AI and its prevalence across every facet of life, Gabe Newell believes that it\u2019s the future whether we like it or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valve\u2019s Gabe Newell says young people should learn how to use machine learning systems and AI, calling it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-41905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}