Nvidia CEO hails ChatGPT as 'one of the greatest things that has ever been done for computing'

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Nvidia's CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, has called what OpenAI has done with ChatGPT «genuinely, one of the greatest things that has ever been done for computing.» And I'm confident his effusive praise for the AI chatbot is all about the tech and little to do with the fact that Nvidia is one of the tech world's biggest indirect financial beneficiaries of ChatGPT's recent viral success.

Conducting an informal 'fireside chat' at Berkley Haas University(opens in new tab) a few weeks back (via WCCFTech(opens in new tab)), Huang was asked about what he thinks about ChatGPT as a technology in a Q&A session, and he immediately said: «ChatGPT is a very, very big deal.» That was before going on to liken the viral AI phenomenon to the iPhone revolution and that it has «democratised computing in a very large way.»

«For a lot of people in the industry that have been working on this,» says Huang, «we've been waiting for this moment. This is the iPhone moment, if you will, of artificial intelligence. This is the time when all the big ideas about mobile computing came together in a product that everybody just kinda… 'I see it, I see it.'

»For the entire 40 years that I have been in the industry we have done nothing but make computers harder and harder for people to program, and that's why the technology divide has been so large. And the technology divide has been getting larger and larger. Except 'til one day. All of a sudden everybody can program a computer, literally everyone can program a computer."

What Huang says about the complexity of computing and programming putting a barrier between people and the machines they use on a day-to-day basis is true, and in one fell swoop ChatGPT has shown that technological divide can be collapsed with an