DUBAI: The world is undergoing a new industrial revolution led by artificial intelligence, says NVIDIA President Jensen Huang, but he warned that there were still fears attached to AI that presented hurdles to its evolution.
Speaking on Monday at the World Governments Summit in Dubai, he said that AI was essential for improved efficiencies.
“If you want cost-effective acceleration then your answer is AI and accelerated computing. Computer programming use for everything is no longer an option or even possible now,” Huang said.
Huang said the world was at the beginning of a new era. “There will now be less amount of tools usually needed for different reasons. AI can centralize that. In the last 10 years, I must say, one of the greatest contributions we made was advancing computing and AI by a million-fold.”
He said the era of computer programming, which had developed over the past 60 years, was gradually being taken over by AI, adding that the new technology was now more widely accessible.
“My team and I were first discovered by others and the process of discovery will continue to reach every researcher around the world. There has been an awakening in every single country that AI is not this scary or mystifying issue. It is, simply put, the production of intelligence.”
The idea of a sovereign AI — adapted to meet the requirements of each country — has evolved in a way that every country can use it in their own way in terms of data, language and in various sectors. The democratization has enabled each to use it for their own tailored needs, he added.
“Look at how Saudi’s Aramco used it for its own benefit by including several languages to make it more accessible for people,” Juang said.
But despite its benefits, he acknowledged that for a lot of people the idea of AI was still terrifying.
“Without the internet can we be digital at all? Without farms will you be able to produce food?
“Whenever a new technology is created, whether it was medicine or airplanes, there is always an interest to scare people away from it and that’s a mistake.”
Juang continued: “We have to develop the technological safety and teach people how to use it. We also need transparency and open-source language.
“Also, we should be encouraging people to engage in AI. You see, reason why it has become so talked about is because anyone can now become a programmer. The tech divide has been closed.”
