Talking about artificial intelligence gives rise to an inevitable positioning. On the one hand, there are those who believe that it will save our lives, while others think that it will destroy the planet. Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, is tired of this dramatic speech.
In a talk he has just made it quite clear that the way in which the story of AI is being told and attempts are being made to intimidate the population is doing more harm than good.
According to Huang, There are too many people talking about the end of the technological world without putting their feet on the ground. For him, humanity is nowhere near an all-powerful artificial intelligence. He says that the famous AI godthe one who knows everything and controls everything, It doesn’t exist and it won’t exist anytime soon.. Not tomorrow, not next year, not for a long time.
«I don’t see any researcher with the reasonable ability to create a godlike AI. The ability [de la IA] to understand human language, genomic language, molecular language, protein language, amino acid language and physical language is extremely good. «That divine AI simply doesn’t exist,» Huang explains.
The reason is simple: today there is no machine capable of understanding human language, that of genes, that of proteins and the laws of physics at the same time. And that is why he believes that raising fear with this issue only generates confusion.
For Huang, This environment of constant alarm and extreme drama is stopping good things. People are beginning to distrust a technology that, used well, can make life easier. And when fear takes precedence over everything, decisions are made worse.
«Frankly, it’s extremely painful, and I think we’ve done a lot of damage lately with very respected people creating a catastrophic, doomsday, sci-fi narrative. And I understand that most of us grew up enjoying sci-fi, but it doesn’t help. It doesn’t help people, it doesn’t help industry, it doesn’t help society, it doesn’t help governments,» he says.
The CEO of Nvidia against some popularizers and public figures who paint AI as a monster
These are, for him, the great destroyers of AI and all the positive things that can come with it. He states that although they do not always do it with bad intentions, the result is the same: a catastrophic narrative that helps no one. Not to people, not to companies, not to governments.
For him, artificial intelligence should be seen as what it is right now, a tool. Not a superior mind, not an enemy, but a help to work better. From programs that organize data to systems that help doctors detect diseases earlier.
One of the examples that Huang repeats most has to do with employment. In many countries there is a lack of workers in very important sectors. And there, he says, robots can be like digital immigrants: they do not come to take away jobs, but to fill gaps where there are no longer enough people.
While it is debated whether AI is good or bad, large companies continue to go all-in
Meanwhile, this doesn’t stop. Meta is already talking about using nuclear energy to power data centers. OpenAI builds new infrastructure to train larger and larger models. And Nvidia is at the center of it all, manufacturing the chips that make all of this happen.
Taking into account the fear that exists and this race that seems unstoppable and that scares many, Huang is clear and states that if they really thought that AI was going to destroy everything, they would not be investing billions in it. They would be running in the opposite direction.
For him, the problem is not technology, but how it is talked about. If only stories of fear and catastrophes are told, people end up thinking that there is no way out. And that is just the opposite of what should happen with such a powerful tool.