Another major player on the global tech scene is Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s CEO. The California-based company is one of the most valuable in the world, with a market value of over $3 trillion, according to Google Finance. The company is focused on designing and manufacturing hardware, including chips and graphical processing units to assist AI.
During the 28th annual Milken Institute Global Conference in May, Huang told the audience he uses AI programs to learn new concepts.
“I use it as a tutor every day,” Huang said. “In areas that are fairly new to me, I might say, ‘Start by explaining it to me like I’m a 12-year-old,’ and then work your way up into a doctorate-level over time.”
AI’s ability to rapidly collect, analyze, and communicate information could close the tech gap, according to Huang.
“In this room, it’s very unlikely that more than a handful of people know how to program with C++,” Huang said. “Yet 100% of you know how to program an AI, and the reason for that is because the AI will speak whatever language you wanted to speak.”
In a 2024 interview with Wired, Huang said he uses Perplexity and ChatGPT “almost every day” for research.
“For example, computer-aided drug discovery. Maybe you would like to know about the recent advancements in computer-aided drug discovery,” Huanng said. “And so you want to frame the overall topic so that you could have a framework, and from that framework, you could ask more and more specific questions. I really love that about these large language models.”