At this year's Siggraph event, Nvidia's Jen-Hsun Huang sat down with Wired for an hour-long chat about all things Nvidia, RTX, and AI. Among the varied topics touched upon, including a recognition that AI training and inference have huge energy demands, was Huang's assertion that more computers are going to be needed for AI systems in the future—specifically, three times more.
Siggraph is an annual conference normally about computer graphics and technology involved with interactivity (think AR and VR, that kind of thing) but it was only a matter of time before AI would become the main topic of discussion. To that end, Nvidia's CEO was interviewed by Wired's Lauren Goode for an hour-long streamed discussion that covered GPUs, RTX, and ray tracing, but mostly AI.
