Nvidia's CEO chats about the future of AI: 'We're going to need three computers... one to create the AI… one to simulate the AI… and one to run the AI'

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At this year’s Siggraph event,Nvidia’s Jen-Hsun Huang sat down with Wiredfor an hour-long chat about all things Nvidia, RTX, and AI. Among the varied topics touched upon, including a recognition that AI training and inference have huge energy demands, was Huang’s assertion that more computers are going to be needed for AI systems in the future—specifically, three times more.

If you’ve been keeping up to date with Nvidia’s push for generative AI to be everywhere, then there’s nothing in the discussion that will really pique your interest. However,at one point, Huang mentioned how the world of AI is now moving away from its pioneering phase and moving toward the next one, which Nvidia’s CEO called the “enterprise wave.”

“It’s a three computer problem. You know, a three body problem and it’s so incredibly complicated and we created three computers to do that.”

Jen-Hsun is, of course, talking about Nvidia’s raft of hardware and software packages, from itsDGX H100 serversto create the AI,Jetsen embedded computersto simulate the AI, and then workstations and servers usingOmniverseand RTX GPUs to run the AI.

Siggraph is one of my favourite tech events and I’ve been watching presentations and reading research papers presented at the conference for years. I have to say that it’s a bit of shame that Nvidia’s fairly blatant sales pitch for its AI systems took center stage this year—Huang’s chat with Meta’s Mark Zuckerbergwas another example of AI-promotion with no substance—and although there will still be plenty of discussion about computer graphics, and AI will naturally be a part of that, Huang didn’t say anything that made me think “Wow, this is going to be so cool!”

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Are we really going toneedthree computers? PC gamers certainly won’t and neither will most businesses. Even those looking to really integrate AI into their core operations may baulk at the potential cost and complexity of using and paying for three tiers of Nvidia’s products.

Nvidia is clearly 100% focused on AI now. The days of it just being a graphics/gaming-only company are long gone, despite it being a core part of the business when it morphed into a data-processing one. That’s not to say PC gamers won’t benefit from Nvidia’s technological advancements in AI, of course, as the likes of RTX and DLSS have arguably been a big step forward in the world of rendering.

And I certainly wouldn’t expect the CEO of the world’s most successful AI company tonotpush it at every possible business opportunity but I think we could all do with a bit of a breather from the relentless push for artificial intelligence festooning every aspect of our computing lives—it does wear a little thin after a while.

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