LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)-According to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, the “digital divide” has been closed thanks to artificial intelligence, which enables anyone to program computers by just speaking to them.
As a key provider of chips and computer systems for artificial intelligence, Nvidia has soared to become the most valuable listed semiconductor firm in the world.
The business last week predicted second-quarter sales to exceed Wall Street projections by more than 50% and announced it was increasing supply to keep up with rising demand for its artificial intelligence chips, which enable ChatGPT and numerous other services similar to it.
Speaking to tens of thousands of attendees at the Computex conference in Taipei, Huang, who was born in southern Taiwan before his family relocated to the United States when he was a little child, said AI was driving the next big revolution in computing.
“There’s no question we’re in a new computing era,” he said in a speech, occasionally dropping in words of Mandarin or Taiwanese to the delight of the crowd.
“Every single computing era you could do different things that weren’t possible before, and artificial intelligence certainly qualifies,” Huang added.
“The programming barrier is incredibly low. We have closed the digital divide. Everyone is a programmer now – you just have to say something to the computer,” he said.
“The rate of progress, because it’s so easy to use, is the reason why it’s growing so fast. This is going to touch literally every single industry.”
Nvidia’s CPUs have assisted businesses like Microsoft in giving search engines like Bing human-like chat functionality.
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Huang showed off what AI was capable of, instructing a software to create a brief pop song praising Nvidia with just a few phrases.
He highlighted a number of new programs, including a collaboration with WPP, the biggest advertising company in the world, for generative AI-enabled content for online advertising.
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and rumored founder of an artificial intelligence business, said last week that graphics processing units (GPUs) are “considerably harder to get than drugs” in an interview, indicating that Nvidia has struggled to keep up with demand for its AI chips.
