Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang went on the No Priors podcast to discuss the current advances in AI technology and to refute claims he believes are wrong about AI. The multi-billionaire made his feelings very clear about the current climate of AI, saying that doom-and-gloom influencers have negatively impacted the AI industry. He also claims that we are far away from "god AI" becoming a reality.
A third of the way into the podcast, Jensen claimed that someday we might have god AI, but clarified that someday will likely be on the level of a biblical or galactic scale. Huang said, "I don't see any researchers having any reasonable ability to create god AI. The ability [for AI] to understand human language, genome language, and molecular language and protein language and amino-acid language and physics language all supremely well. That god AI just doesn't exist."
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Huang further clarified that god AI he believes is not coming "next week." But he deems that AI should be used to advance the human population as much as possible in the meantime, before this prophetic god AI shows up. He also does not desire a god-level AI to exist: "I think that the idea of a monolithic, gigantic company/country/nation-state is just.. super unhelpful, it's too extreme. If you want to take it to that level, we should just stop everything..."
Moving on, Jensen fired shots at influencers who paint AI in a negative way: "..extremely hurtful frankly, and I think we've done a lot of damage lately with very well respected people who have painted a doomer narrative, end of the world narrative, science fiction narrative. And I appreciate that most of us grew up enjoying science fiction, but it's not helpful. It's not helpful to people, it's not helpful to the industry, it's not helpful to society, it's not helpful to the governments."
Huang wants AI to succeed as a tool that people can use to make their work more efficient. One use case that Huang addressed last week is the ongoing labor shortage, noting that robots can act as "AI immigrants". However, the real-world effectiveness of AI paints a different picture. Stanford University reported last year that job listings dropped 13% in three years due to AI. Furthermore, Fortune reported that 95% of AI implementations have no impact on P&L.
But that is not stopping the tech industry from increasing AI capacity worldwide. Meta just announced a 6-gigawatt-capable nuclear power plant aimed at powering AI datacenters, following in the footsteps of The Stargate Project from OpenAI.
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