Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang recently expressed high praise for ChatGPT, declaring it one of the greatest things ever created in the computing industry.
He expressed admiration for ChatGPT’s “surprising capability” to perform tasks and skills it was never trained to do.
“The world now realizes that maybe human language is a perfectly good computer programming language and that we’ve democratized computer programming for everyone,” said Huang.
Developed by AI research and deployment company OpenAI — originally a nonprofit co-founded by Elon Musk — ChatGPT is a free, AI-powered chatbot that returns human-like responses in a dialogue format.
Since its initial release in November, the software has gone viral for its detailed yet conversational replies, from pointing out sneaky code errors to suggesting recipes for dishes devoid of carbs.
Huang, who co-founded chipmaker Nvidia in 1993, is considered one of the biggest beneficiaries of ChatGPT’s technology.
This new computing platform, this new computer could take whatever your prompt is, whatever your human-explained request is, and translate it to a sequence of instructions that you process it directly, or it waits for you to decide whether you want to process it or not,” Huang said.
“We are set to help customers take advantage of breakthroughs in generative AI and large language models.”
Earlier this month, Huang called ChatGPT the “iPhone moment” for artificial intelligence while speaking at the Haas School of Business at Berkeley.
After focusing on graphics processing units, which are used in video games, video editing, and machine learning, the company now leads the world in chipmaking for AI and its wide-ranging applications.
ChatGPT’s soaring popularity has led investors to bet on AI, and by extension, chipmakers such as Nvidia.
Santa Clara, California-based Nvidia said that its AI supercomputer was in full production, adding that the company is partnering with leading cloud service providers to offer AI-as-a-service as well.