Nvidia and its CEO Jensen Huang have been in the news a lot lately.
Gamers haven’t been too kind to the massive tech company, with negative reactions flooding the comments section underneath the Nvidia DLSS 5 reveal video. In response, CEO Jensen Huang pushed back during a press Q&A at this year’s GPU Technology Conference, saying gamers are “completely wrong” about the backlash. Huang doubled down in a later interview with “Mad Money’s” Jim Cramer and championed the open-source autonomous AI called OpenClaw, calling it “definitely the next ChatGPT.”
Huang has popped up on everyone’s tech-themed timelines again to make another bold assertion during an appearance on Lex Fridman’s podcast. And as expected, it speaks to an evolved stage of AI that could even do his job and run an entire multi-trillion-dollar company.
Huang believes artificial general intelligence has finally arrived
When asked when AGI (artificial general intelligence) might arrive, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang didn’t hesitate: “I think it’s now. I think we’ve achieved AGI.”
Put simply, AGI refers to AI that can match — or even surpass — human intelligence across a wide range of cognitive tasks. It’s not just about answering questions or generating text; it’s about systems that can learn, reason and apply knowledge the way humans do.
Huang suggested this shift could show up in unexpected ways, pointing to the possibility of a breakout app or digital personality. “I wouldn’t be surprised if some social thing happened — like a digital influencer or some kind of app that suddenly becomes an instant success,” he said.
Still, he stopped short of claiming AI is ready to fully replace human decision-making. Huang acknowledged that today’s AI agents aren’t capable of running a company like Nvidia on their own. “A lot of people use it for a couple of months, and it kind of dies away,” he said. “Now, the odds of 100,000 of those agents building NVIDIA is zero percent.”
That stance marks a shift from his earlier timeline. At the 2023 New York Times DealBook Summit, Huang said AGI was still about five years away and would eventually be able to outperform humans on intelligence tests.
Bottom line
Huang is obviously all-in on AI. With his most recent support of OpenClaw, Nvidia's reveal of DLSS 5, and the company’s overall implementation of Agentic AI, it’s clear that he is looking to further modernize and evolve the trending technology.
Whether or not AGI is truly here and capable of handling the lofty responsibilities that humans are usually entrusted with is not known. Seeing as how Huang walked back his major statement about AGI a bit, it seems that even he thinks we’re not quite there just yet.
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