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.
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.
ChatGPT is an example of generative AI, a technology that generates content based on input data. Another example is OpenAI’s own DALL-E 2, which creates realistic images from even the most bizarre text descriptions.
Huang, who co-founded chipmaker Nvidia in 1993, is considered one of the biggest beneficiaries of ChatGPT’s technology.
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.
After drawing $5 billion in late January, Huang saw his net worth balloon to $18.9 billion, making him the largest gainer among U.S. billionaires so far this year — and it’s still growing.
Huang found the opportunity to praise ChatGPT after speaking on inventing new markets at Berkeley Haas University in California earlier this month. Responding to a student’s inquiry during the Q&A session, the 59-year-old tech executive described the new software as a “very, very big deal.”
When was the last time we saw a piece of technology that is so versatile that it can solve problems and surprise people in so many ways so often? It can write a poem of course, it could fill out a spreadsheet, it can write a SQL query and do a SQL query, it can write python code, it…
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