Every country needs to own the production of their own intelligence, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang told attendees Monday at the World Government Summit in Dubai.
Huang emphasised a country’s ownership over its data and the intelligence it produces—as an enormous opportunity for the world’s leaders.
“It codifies your culture, your society’s intelligence, your common sense, your history–you own your own data,” Huang said.
The Middle East is poised to reap significant benefits from AI, with PwC projecting a $320 billion boost to the region’s economy by 2030.
At the World Government Summit, Huang urged leaders not to be “mystified” by AI. AI’s unprecedented ability to take directions from ordinary humans makes it critical for countries to embrace AI, infusing it with local languages and expertise.
In response to a question about how he might approach AI if he were the leader of a developing nation, Huang emphasised the importance of building infrastructure.
“It’s not that costly, it is also not that hard,” Huang explained. “The first thing that I would do, of course, is I would codify the language, the data of your culture into your own large language model.”
“NVIDIA GPU is the only platform available to everybody on any platform,” Huang said. “This ubiquity has not only democratised AI but facilitated a wave of innovation that spans from cloud computing to autonomous systems and beyond.
All of this promises to unleash innovations that go beyond what’s traditionally thought of as information technology.
Huang even countered advice offered by many visionaries over the years who urged young people to study computer science to compete in the information age. No longer.
“In fact, it’s almost exactly the opposite,” Huang said. “It is our job to create computing technologies that nobody has to program and that the programming language is human: everybody in the world is now a programmer—that is the miracle.”
