I remember when Jensen Huang used to sell me GPUs, now he's out there having to deny that AI will cause 'the end of the world'

The hardware landscape of 2021 feels like a distant world. Case in point this past week, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that talk of an AI-induced extinction event for humanity is overblown and "not grounded in science." Huang's comments were in part responding to claims made earlier this month by ex-Anthropic researcher, Jacob Coxon, saying that AI progress 'could kill us all by the end of the decade'.

"2030 is not going to be the end of the world. There is 0% chance that's going to be the end of the world," Huang told CBS News on Friday. "Scaring people is unnecessary. It is irresponsible."

Compare and contrast this state of affairs to five years ago, when the keynote for GTC 2021 came to you predominantly from Huang's own kitchen, and the month before Read Entire Article