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only four companies in the world are
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worth more than $2 trillion doar
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Microsoft Apple alphabet parent company
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of Google and computer chip maker Nvidia
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the California based company saw its
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stock market value sore from 1 trillion
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to $2 trillion in just eight months this
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past year fueled by the insatiable
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demand for its cuttingedge technology
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the hardware and software that make
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today's artificial intelligence
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possible we wondered how a company
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founded in 1993 to improve video game
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Graphics turned into a Titan of 21st
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century AI so we went to Silicon Valley
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to meet nvidia's 61-year-old co-founder
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and CEO Jensen hang who has no doubt AI
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is about to change
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everything the story will continue in a
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moment
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[Music]
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at nvidia's annual developers conference
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this past March the mood wasn't just
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upbeat it was downright giddy more than
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11,000 enthusiasts software developers
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Tech Mogul and happy shareholders filed
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into San Jose's Pro Hockey Arena to kick
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off a 4-day AI extrav
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aganza they came to see this man Jensen
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hang CEO of Nvidia welcome to
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GTC what was that like for you to walk
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out on that stage and see that you know
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Bill I'm an engineer not a performer
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when I walked out there and all of the
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people going crazy it took the breath
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out of me and so that was the scariest
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I've ever been I'm still
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scared you'd never know it in his
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signature cool black outfit Jensen
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shared the stage with Nvidia powered
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robots let me finish up real quick and
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shared his vision of an AI future a new
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Industrial Revolution it reminded us of
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the transformational moment when Apple
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Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone Jensen
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hang unveiled nvidia's latest Graphics
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Processing Unit or GPU this is Blackwell
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designed in America but made in Taiwan
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like most advanced semiconductors
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Blackwell he says is the fastest chip
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ever Google is gearing up for Blackwell
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the whole industry is gearing up for
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Blackwell Nvidia ushered in the AI
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Revolution with its gamechanging GPU a
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single chip able to process a myriad of
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calculations all at once not
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sequentially like more standard chips
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the GPU is the engine of nvidia's AI
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computer enabling it to w rapidly absorb
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a fire hose of information it does
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quadrillions of calculations a second
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it's just insane numbers is it doing
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things now that surprise you we're
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hoping that it does things that surprise
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us that's the whole point in some areas
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like drug Discovery designing better
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materials that are lighter stronger we
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need artificial intelligence to help us
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explore the universe in places that we
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could have never done ourselves let me
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show you here bill look at this Jensen
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took us around the GTC convention hall
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to show us what AI has made possible in
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just the past few years I'm making your
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drink now some Creations were dazzling
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this is a digital twin of the earth once
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it learns how to calculate weather it
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can calculate and predict weather 3,000
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times faster than a supercomputer and a
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thousand times less energy but nvidia's
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AI Revolution extends far beyond this
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Hall BL
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metallic spaceship and let's generate
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something panar Sean demera is
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originally from Istanbul but co-founded
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cubric near Boston her AI application
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uses nvidia's gpus to instantly turn a
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simple text prompt into a virtual movie
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set for a fraction of the cost of
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today's backdrops this isn't something
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that's already planned no we're doing it
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in real time it's life is Hollywood
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knocking at your door and we're we're
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getting a lot of
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love nearby at generate biom medicines
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doctor Alex Snider head of research and
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development is using nvidia's technology
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to create protein-based drugs she was
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surprised at first to see they showed
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promise in the lab initially when I was
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told about the application of AI to drug
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development I sort of rolled my eyes and
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said yeah you know show me the data and
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then I looked at the data and it was
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very compelling Dr Snider's team asks
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its AI models to create new proteins to
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fight specific diseases like cancer and
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Asthma a new way to defeat the Corona
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virus is now in clinical trials you're
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now working with proteins that do not
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exist in nature that you're coming up
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with by way of AI yes we are actually
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generating what we call denovo
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completely new structures that have not
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existed before do you trust it as
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scientists we can't trust we have to
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test we're not putting Frankenstein into
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people we're taking what's known and
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we're really pushing the field we're
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pushing the biology to make drugs that
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look like regular drugs but function
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even better this is a technology that
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will only get better from here Brett
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Adcock is CEO of figure a Silicon Valley
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startup with funding from Nvidia look at
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his answer to labor shortages an Nvidia
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GP driven prototype called Figure one I
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think what's been really extraordinary
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is the pace of progress we've made in 21
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months from zero to this in Z to this
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yeah we we were walking this robot in
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under a year since I Incorporated the
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company could you do this without
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invidious technology we think they're
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arguably the best in the world at this I
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don't know if this would be possible
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without them I'm here to assist with
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tasks as requested we were amazed that
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figure one is not just walking but
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seemed to reason hand me something
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healthy on it figure one was able to
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understand I wanted the orange not the
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packaged snack thank you it's not yet
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perfected yeah you're going to get it
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but the early results are so promising
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German automaker BMW plans to start
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testing the robot in its South Carolina
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Factory this year I think there's an
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opportunity to ship billions of robots
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in the coming
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decades onto the planet billions I would
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think that a lot of workers would look
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at that as this robot is taking my job I
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think over time Ai and Robotics will
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start doing more and more what humans
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can and better but what about the worker
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the workers work for companies and so
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companies when they become more
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productive earnings increase I've never
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seen one company that had earnings
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increase and not hire more people there
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are some jobs that are going to become
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obsolete well let me offer it this way I
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believe that you still want human in the
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loop because we have good judgment
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because there are circumstances that the
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machines are not just not going to
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understand the futuristic Nvidia campus
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sits just down the road from its modest
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birth place this Denny's in San Jose
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good morning where 31 years ago in video
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was just an idea my goodness when he was
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15 Jensen hang worked as a dishwasher at
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Denny's as a 30-year-old electrical
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engineer married with two children he
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and two friends Nvidia co-founders Chris
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malikowski and Curtis PR envisioned a
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whole new way of processing video game
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graphics and so we came here right here
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to this Denny's sat right back there and
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the three of us decided to start the
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company frankly I had no idea how to do
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it and nor did they none of us knew how
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to do anything their big idea accelerate
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the processing power of computers with a
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new graphics chip their initial attempt
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flopped and nearly bankrupted the
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company in
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1996 and the genius of the engineers and
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Christen Curtis um we pivoted to the
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right way of doing things and created
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their groundbreaking GPU the chip took
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video games from
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this to this today completely changed
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computer Graphics saved the company uh
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launched us into into the stratosphere
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just eight years after Denny's Nvidia
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earned a spot in the S&P 500 Jensen then
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set his sites on developing the software
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and hardware for a revolutionary GPU
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driven superc computer which would take
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the company far beyond video games
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to Wall Street it was a risky bet to
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early developers of AI it was a
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revelation was that luck or was that
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Vision that was a a luck founded by
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Vision we invented this capability and
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then one day the researchers that were
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uh creating deep
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learning discovered this architecture
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because this architecture turns out to
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have been perfect for them perfect for
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AI perfect for AI this is the first one
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we've ever
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in 2016 Jensen delivered nvidia's AI
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supercomputer the first of its kind to
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Elon Musk then a board member of open AI
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which used it to create the building
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blocks of chat GPT how are you when AI
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took off hey guys so did Jensen hang's
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reputation can we get a picture yeah
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yeah he's now a Silicon Valley celebrity
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he told us the boy who immigrated from
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Taiwan at age n could never have
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conceived of this it is the most
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extraordinary thing bill that a
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normal dishwasher bus boy could grow up
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to be this there's no magic it's just 61
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years of hard work every single day I
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don't think there's anything more than
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that we met a humble Jensen at Denny's
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back at nvidia's headquarters in Santa
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Clara we saw he can be intense
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let me tell you what some of the people
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who you work with said about you
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demanding perfectionist not easy to work
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for all that sound right perfectly yeah
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it should be like that if you want to do
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extraordinary things it shouldn't be
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easy all right guys keep up the good
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work Nvidia has never done better
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investors are bullish but last year more
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than 600 top AI scientists ethicists and
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others signed this statement urging
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caution warning of ai's risk to humanity
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when I talk to you and I hear you speak
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Part of Me Goes gee whiz and the other
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part of me goes oh my God what are we in
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for yeah yeah which one is it it's both
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it's both yeah you're feeling all the
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right feelings I feel both you feel both
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sure sure Humanity will have the choice
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to see themselves inferior to machines
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or Superior to machines Pinar Sean
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demera is an AI Optimist though she
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named her company cubric and homage to
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Stanley kubert the director of 2001 A
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Space Odyssey hello hell do you read me
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in that film Hal the AI computer goes
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Rogue open the pod bay doors
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H I'm sorry Dave I'm afraid I can't do
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that I think that's what worries people
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about AI
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that we will lose control of it just
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because a machine can do faster
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calculations comparisons and analytical
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solution creation that doesn't make you
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smarter than you it simply computat
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faster in my world in my belief smarts
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have to do with your capacity to love
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create expand
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transcend these are qualities that no
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machine can ever bear that are deserve
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to Only Humans there is something going
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on Jensen hang sees an AI future of
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progress and prosperity not one with
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machines as our masters we can only hope
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he's right thank you all for coming
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thank you