Nvidia CEO: We bet the farm on AI and no one knew it | TechCrunch
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Nvidia CEO: We bet the farm on AI and no one knew it | TechCrunch
Following the AlexNet breakthrough, AI suddenly became a major priority in academia, government, and corporate life. Geoffrey Hinton and his colleagues were hired by Google. Major tech companies in both the United States and China put machine learning at the heart of their R&D efforts. Shortly after DQN, we sold DeepMind to Google, and the tech
... See moreBut the networks themselves were still severely limited in what they could do. Accurate results to complex problems required many layers of artificial neurons, but researchers hadn’t found a way to efficiently train those layers as they were added. Deep learning’s big technical break finally arrived in the mid-2000s, when leading researcher Geoffre
... See moreThe “Era of the GPU” would create so many opportunities that Jensen saw it as his mission to prepare Nvidia to take advantage of it—even if no one could know exactly what those opportunities would be. Everything else, including corporate financial concerns, was entirely secondary.