- Nvidia CEO says US manufacturing has huge opportunity with AI
- ‘We are going through the largest single infrastructure in human history,’ says Huang
- Nvidia and Corning sign major partnership to use optical manufacturing capacity
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has suggested that the increasing influence of AI presents the US manufacturing industry with a great opportunity to evolve and grow like never before.
“We are going through the largest single infrastructure in human history,” Huang said CNBC’s Mad Money.
“Artificial intelligence will become fundamental infrastructure around the world, and certainly here in the United States.”
AI helps boost industry
Huang was speaking to announce the launch of Nvidia’s partnership with Corning, which will see the latter build three new facilities in Texas and North Carolina, reportedly creating more than 3,000 jobs.
Such agreements show the strength of American manufacturing, Huang declared, and provide an opportunity to strengthen a domestic supply chain that does not have to rely solely on companies from China or other nations.
“This is such an extraordinary opportunity because we can use this market momentum to reinvest, revitalize American manufacturing for the first time in generations,” Huang said.
“We need the support and partnership of the world’s best companies in our supply chain to help us create and realize this future,” he said. “Silicon photonics and optical technology is a very big part of that.”
Huang, unsurprisingly, has been keen to talk up the benefits of artificial intelligence for some time, particularly when it comes to trying to dispel fears of human job losses, focusing instead on the role it would play in automating routine or tedious tasks, freeing up human workers for more engaging fields.
Huang said that people who think that an entire role will be replaced simply because a single part is being automated “misunderstand that the purpose of a job and the task of a job are connected”.
On a larger scale, the CEO was also critical of those pushing narratives of Terminator-like AIs ruling the planet or killing parts of the economy.
“My biggest concern is that we’re scaring … people,” he said, “all the people that we’re telling these science fiction stories to, to the point where AI is so unpopular in the United States, or people are so afraid of it that they don’t actually engage with it.”
He also recently revealed how his own experiences have changed, noting: “I feel like I’m getting busier and busier to be honest … my experience with Nvidia today is that it makes me busier than it was six months ago – and the reason for that is because the results work comes back to you much faster, the work comes back to you much faster and the number of projects grows much faster”
“AI will get tasks done super fast … my feeling is that AI will make us able to do things so fast that we end up doing more.”
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