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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang suggested that the growing influence of AI provides a great opportunity for the U.S. manufacturing industry to evolve and grow like never before.
“We are going through the greatest infrastructure construction in human history,” Huang said. CNBC’s Mad Money.
“Artificial intelligence is going to become fundamental infrastructure around the world, and certainly here in the United States. »
AI helps boost industry
Huang was speaking to announce the launch of the partnership between Nvidia and Corning, which will see the latter build three new facilities in Texas and North Carolina, creating more than 3,000 jobs.
Such deals show the strength of the U.S. manufacturing industry, Huang said, providing an opportunity to strengthen a domestic supply chain that does not need to rely solely on companies from China or other countries.
“This is an extraordinary opportunity because we can use this market dynamic to reinvest and revitalize America’s manufacturing industry for the first time in several generations,” Huang said.
“We need the support and partnership of the world’s best companies in our supply chain to help us create and realize this future,” he said. “Silicon photonics and optical technology play a very important role in this.”
Unsurprisingly, Huang has been keen to talk about the benefits of AI for some time, particularly when it comes to allaying fears about human job losses, focusing instead on the role it would play in automating routine or boring tasks, freeing up human workers for more interesting fields.
Huang said people who believe an entire role will be replaced simply due to the automation of a single part, “misunderstand that the purpose of a job and the task of a job are linked.”
On a broader scale, the CEO also criticized those who promoted narratives that Terminator-like AIs would rule the planet or kill parts of the economy.
“My biggest concern is that we’re scaring… people,” he said, “all the people that we’re telling these science fiction stories to, to the point where AI is so unpopular in the United States, or people are so afraid of it, that they don’t actually engage with it.”
He also recently revealed how much his own experiences have changed, noting: “I feel like I’m getting busier and busier to be honest… my experience with Nvidia today is that it makes me busier than it was six months ago – and the reason is that the work on the results comes to you a lot quicker, the work comes to you a lot quicker and the number of projects grows a lot quicker.” »
“AI is going to do things very quickly…I have a feeling that AI is going to allow us to do things so quickly that we’ll end up doing more.”
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