By Jessie Pang
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Nvidia CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Jensen Huang informed grads and academics that “the age of AI has started” in a speech on Saturday, after obtaining an honorary doctorate level in design from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
The head of the globe’s leading manufacturer of chips made use of for expert system applications got the honor together with star Tony Leung, Nobel Prize for Chemistry championProf Michael Levitt andFields Medallist Prof David Mumford.
“The age of AI has started. A new computing era that will impact every industry and every field of science,” claimed Huang.
He claimed Nvidia has “reinvented computing and sparked a new industrial revolution,” 25 years after designing the graphics refining device.
“AI is certainly the most important technology of our time, and potentially of all times.”
Huang, 61, likewise informed grads that he wanted he had actually begun his profession right now.
“The whole world is reset. You’re at the starting lines with everybody else. An industry is being reinvented. You now have the instruments, the instruments necessary to advance science in so many different fields,” Huang claimed.
“The greatest challenges of our time, unimaginable challenges to overcome in the past, all of a sudden seem possible to tackle.”
In the mid-day, Huang will certainly take part in a fireplace conversation with the college’s Council Chairman Harry Sham, instructors and trainees.
(Reporting by Jessie Pang; Editing by Christopher Cushing)