Nvidia CEO Huang says 'the age of AI has started'

23/11/2024 12:32

        Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told graduates and academics that "the age of AI has started" in a speech on Saturday, after receiving an honorary doctorate degree in engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
        
        The head of the world's leading maker of chips used for artificial intelligence applications received the award alongside actor Tony Leung, Nobel Prize for Chemistry winner Prof. Michael Levitt and Fields Medallist Prof. David Mumford.
        
        "The age of AI has started. A new computing era that will impact every industry and every field of science," said Huang.
        
        He said Nvidia has "reinvented computing and sparked a new industrial revolution," 25 years after inventing the graphics processing unit.
        
        "AI is certainly the most important technology of our time, and potentially of all times."
        
        Huang, 61, also told graduates that he wished he had started his career at this time.