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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has suggested that the growing influence of AI offers the US manufacturing industry a huge opportunity to evolve and grow like never before.
“We are going through the largest infrastructure build in human history,” Huang said in CNBC Mad Money.
“Artificial intelligence will become critical infrastructure around the world, and certainly here in the United States.”
AI helps drive the industry
Huang spoke to announce the launch of Nvidia’s partnership with Corning, which will allow the latter to build three new facilities in Texas and North Carolina, reportedly creating more than 3,000 jobs.
These agreements show the strength of the American manufacturing industry, Huang said, and offer the opportunity to strengthen a domestic supply chain that does not need to rely solely on companies from China or other nations.
“This is an extraordinary opportunity because we can use these market dynamics to reinvest and revitalize American manufacturing for the first time in 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 are a very important part of this.”
Unsurprisingly, Huang has been interested in talking about the benefits of AI for some time now, especially when it comes to trying to allay fears about the loss of human jobs, focusing instead on the role it would play in automating routine or boring tasks, freeing up human workers for more interesting areas.
Huang said that people who believe that an entire function will be replaced simply because a single part is automated “don’t understand that the purpose of a job and the task of a job are related.”
On a broader scale, the CEO also criticized those pushing Terminator-style AI narratives that rule the planet or wipe out parts of the economy.
“My biggest concern is that we scare… people,” he said, “all the people we tell 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 really engage with it.”
He also recently revealed how his own experiences have changed, noting: “I feel like I’m getting busier, to be honest… my experience with Nvidia today is that it’s making me busier than I was six months ago, and the reason for this is that the results of the work come back to you much faster, the work comes back to you much faster, and the number of projects is growing much faster.”
“AI will do things super fast… my feeling is that AI will make us able to do things so fast that we’ll end up doing more.”
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