Nvidia is taking big steps these days. So why not include big cultural ideas, too?
As news came out that Nvidia had overtaken Amazon in market value, the tech behemoth’s chief executive officer was making some news of his own.
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In a recent fireside chat at the World Government Summit in Dubai, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang coined a new term – “Sovereign AI” – when discussing AI’s impact on country cultures with UAE’s Minister of AI, Omar Al Olama.
Huang linked the term to a country’s ownership over its AI-driven data and the intelligence it produces and described it as an “enormous opportunity” for world leaders.
“It codifies your culture, society’s intelligence, common sense, history – you own your data,” Huang told Al Olama.
At the February 12 chat, Huang pressed government decision-makers not to be “mystified” by artificial intelligence. Instead, countries should avoid anxiety over AI’s rise to power, embrace AI, and merge its local languages, customs, and regional expertise.
“It’s not that costly, it is also not that hard,” Huang said. “The first thing that I would do, of course, is codify the language, the data of your culture into your large language model.”
Nvidia Behind the Steering Wheel
Huang also noted the convenience of using Nvidia’s AI-powered semiconductors to bring people together as the company’s GPUs are increasingly used for artificial intelligence development.
“NVIDIA GPU is the only platform available to everybody on any platform,” Huang said. “This ubiquity has not only democratized AI but facilitated a wave of innovation that spans from cloud computing to autonomous systems and beyond.”
Asked whether or not young people should shift their career sites to the computer sciences, Huang demurred.
“It’s almost exactly the opposite,” Huang said. “It is our job to create computing technologies that nobody has to program and that the programming language is human: everybody in the world is now a programmer — that is the miracle.”
Nvidia now has a market share of $1.78 trillion and its stock price is up 213% over the past year.
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