Training Data Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, makes the case that computing is undergoing its biggest shift in 60 years: from retrieval, where data centers store files we look up, to generation, where every word, image, and video is produced in real time and customized for whoever is asking. He explains why NVIDIA's AI factories are the dynamos of this era: machines that take in electrons and send out tokens of intelligence, just as Siemens' dynamo once turned motion into electricity. Jensen frames intelligence as the third force to "cocoon" the planet after electricity and the internet. He describes the five-layer cake of AI investment—energy, chips, infrastructure, models, applications—and dismantles the fear that AI will erase jobs, using radiology and software engineering to show how automation raised labor demand instead of killing it. His bottom line: you won't lose your job to AI, but you might lose it to someone who uses AI.
Hosted by Konstantine Buhler, Sequoia Capital Recorded May, 2026
00:00 Introduction 00:42 From Chatbots to Generative AI 03:35 Agentic AI That Does Work 05:26 Downstream Industry Impact 06:25 Computing Shifts From Retrieval to Generation 11:26 A Planet Cocooned by Intelligence 14:27 Inside the NVIDIA AI Factory 20:48 AI Five Layer Cake 21:58 Beyond Chatbots to Biology 23:54 Tokens and World Models 24:53 Trillions in Applications 27:13 Ditch the AI Doom 31:32 Jobs Tasks vs Purpose 38:40 Closing the Tech Divide
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Jensen Huang discusses the paradigm shift from retrieval-based computing to generative AI. He introduces the concept of \"AI factories\" that produce intelligence in real-time, evolving from simple chatbots to agentic systems capable of reasoning. This industrial revolution spans energy, hardware, and applications, aiming to democratize technology by making natural language the primary interface for computing.
Thank you so much, Jensen.
So we are in the middle of a massive AI revolution.
It is probably bigger and faster than even
the Industrial Revolution.
And you have called out what's happening right now
as the largest infrastructure build-out in human history.
At the center of that build-out is the AI factory.
And the company enabling all of that is NVIDIA.
Can you tell us what is an AI factory
and why is it the best investment
for any enterprise in the next decade?
Okay, so you could understand AI
in a particular number of ways.
The way that you understand AI probably most
is through a chatbot, through a web browser.
You're interacting with it.
You give it a prompt, it says something back to you.
And even those of you who have been using AI for some time,
you've seen in the last couple of two, three years
a very significant evolution,
improvement in the capabilities of AI.
Two years ago, you heard about ChatGPT.
And ChatGPT basically is a computer software
that understands the input you give it,
it can perceive, understand information,
and it can translate and generate the information
into something else.
Okay, so you can give it a prompt and you can say,
here's this PDF I gave you.
I would like you now to summarize it.
It went from text to text.
You could also tell it, here's a PDF I gave you.
I would like you to now generate an image of that story.
It go text to image.
You could use go from image to text,
meaning you could give it a picture
and you can, what's happening inside this picture.
It goes text, image to text.
Does that make sense?
Anything to anything else.
And AI in the last, in two years time, two years ago,
was largely able to do this translation.
We call it generation, generative models, okay?
Generative AI.
But the thing that is very big deal
inside that word generative AI
is in order to do something even more valuable
than generation, understanding and generating, is thinking.
Well, you can't think if you don't generate words.
And so the foundation of generative AI
gave us the ability to generate internal thoughts,
thinking, reasoning, step-by-step reasoning,
problem solving.
It also allowed us to do another thing
that is now very important,
which is generate intelligence to control something else,
to generate control to use a tool.
Does it make sense?
To use a browser, use a spreadsheet,
use Photoshop, use PowerPoint, use something,
use AutoCAD, use another tool.
Now that tool today is digital,
but someday that tool will be mechanical.
So if I generate a command to a mechanical system,
that would be called robotics.
If I generate commands for a machine with steering wheel,
that would be called self-driving cars.
Does that make sense?
Okay.
And so two years ago, two years ago,
in fact, you saw the foundations,
we call it ChatGBT, and everybody said,
ah, you know, it's fun, it's silly,
or it produced a whole bunch of crazy hallucinated text.
That's all true, but it was the foundational technology
that led to all of this.
Two years later, we now have agentic systems.
Now that's one view of AI.
I just described the view,
which is what can AI do, right?
And so now all of you realize you see it from ChatGBT,
you see it from Codex, you see it from Cloud Code,
you see that it's now able to not just understand,
but it's able to do work, reason and do work.
Now, two years ago, when AI was able to understand you
and generate information that was interesting, novel,
a little cute, whenever you need a poem written,
great way to do it, right?
Who doesn't want to write a country song?
And so that was two years ago,
but now because it's able to do work, AI is valuable.
Valuable meaning it can generate information,
it can generate useful work and it could be paid for
because we're interested in having friends that are smart.
We love people who are know-it-alls,
but we don't pay them for it.
We pay for people who do work.
Does that make sense?
All right, which is what happened in the last two years,
AI went from having this capability to now agentic,
went from not very valuable to now producing useful work.
So much useful work that you and I are doing this every day
but we're paying AI by the hour, right?
And so we might pay him $30 an hour to do the work,
$20 an hour to do the work.
We're basically paying AI a lot of money today,
the fastest growing software business
in the history of mankind
because now it's doing useful work
and we can pay them to do it.
Now that's one view of AI, which is what it can do.
But one other view of AI that's really important
to help reason through what Constantine is saying.
So for example, the reason why some companies,
some people are able to build great businesses
and could maneuver themselves
into the center of very large industries
is because when they see this capability,
this is very interesting.
One interesting thought is if we're able to do this,
what is the implication to this downstream industries?
That's an interesting conversation we should have, okay?
So now that AI can do this,
what happens to all the industries like healthcare
and financial services and life sciences,
manufacturing, logistics, transportation,
on and on and on.
E-tail, advertising, future entertainment,
the list of conversations you can have about
now that AI can do this,
what can it do as a result subsequently?
That's an interesting conversation.
But you should go upstream,
meaning industrially, what does that mean?
And so the first thing you realize is this.
Go back to first principles.
I had told you just now that AI is software
and it's being produced by a computer.
Now, what happened to the computer
that has made it possible to do this?
Well, the big idea is about,
if you think about the computer as we know it today,
really emerged about 64 years ago.
IBM System 360 was the biggest announcement of computing
and 64 years ago,
IBM was the most valuable company in the world, okay?
And they created the modern understanding of computers.
Everything that we can describe about computer
was really described in 1964.
For 40 years, largely has remained the same.
And what happened was that form of computing
is called pre-recording.
You write down your story, you save it to a file.
You write a program by hand, you save it to a file.
You take a picture, you save it to a file.
You record music, you save it to a file.
You make a video right now, we're in streaming right now,
but somebody's gonna record it,
you're gonna save it to a file.
And when you wanna use it later,
you retrieve it from the disk drive.
Does that make sense?
And the retrieval process is done intelligently.
So that's why everybody's retrieval of a news story
is a little bit different.
It's called a recommender system.
But basically computers as we know it today
is a retrieval-based system,
which is the reason why these buildings
are called data centers.
They store data.
Notice they don't call them computer centers
because they're not doing much computing.
They just store data.
That you retrieve based on what you touch on your phone.
Well, what happened now,
if you look at what I just described,
in order for this AI to work as I described it,
every time I say something to it,
I have to give it new information.
We call it context.
I give it a new prompt, that's called a query.
Between the context and the query,
it will understand it first, reason about it,
and it will produce an output
based on that context and that query,
based on the circumstance.
Does that make sense so far?
Okay, give me one nod, okay?
And so if that is the case,
every time you use the AI,
the content is produced originally every single time.
Everything I'm saying to you right now
is being produced in real time.
And it's because my explanation is based on the fact
that I realize all of you come from 60 different countries,
128 different families.
You all have many different backgrounds.
Some of you probably came from the computer industry.
Most of you probably did not.
And so I'm explaining the information to you
in a way that is sufficiently deep,
but ultimately my goal is this,
so that you know how to make your next investment.
That's what I'm leading to.
And so I'm gonna give you enough sufficient information
that you can reason about it for yourself
so that when you see something in the next time,
you go, that's worth investing in.
That's gonna be a big industry.
That's $100 billion right now,
and it looks really big,
but that's nothing compared to how big it's going to be.
I'm gonna give you the intuition to solve that problem.
Okay?
And so here we are,
went from a computer industry
that was largely based on retrieval for 60 years,
and all of a sudden, one day,
it's completely generated in real time.
We call it intelligence.
This is what I'm doing right now for you.
I'm demonstrating intelligence.
Contextual awareness.
He gave me a prompt, and here comes my answer.
Does it make sense?
Extreme.
Extremely artificial intelligence.
Okay?
And so here, what's going on now?
I just gave you one word earlier.
It's called generative AI.
The computer of today has been completely reinvented.
It's now generative.
And every single letter you see,
every single word you see in the future,
every video, every image, every ad,
every TV commercial,
every single time you read a story, a news story,
every one of them will be different.
What Constantine sees, what I see,
what you see will be completely different
because it'll be generated for you
because your interest, your context,
who you are, for what reason you ask,
how you ask is completely different.
Does it make sense?
And so therefore, therefore,
every single pixel that you see,
every single sound that you hear in the future,
every video you see in the future
will be originally generated, not retrieved,
which means in the future, we need a lot more generators.
And these generators is what we build.
That's what we build for a living.
These are large computers,
and they're generating intelligence.
Now the next question is this.
Well, how big could it be?
How big can it be?
And so it turns out, it turns out,
the amount of information,
the amount of generation of intelligence
is we do it for about a billion people in the world today.
Now that I told you that AI has become agentic,
meaning that it can actually do work by itself.
Well, if it can do work by itself,
then one agent can communicate with another agent
and say, I have some work to do.
Let's team up together and let's do some work.
And now you have all these different agents
and they're all working together to solve problems
inside your company, say.
So inside our company,
Konstantin knows that we're huge users of agentic AI.
We have hundreds of thousands of agents
probably running around right now that are doing work
and they're talking to each other
and they're solving problems.
All guardrailed, all sandboxed,
all guardrailed and sandboxed,
but they're all working with each other,
which means in the future,
it is very likely that the internet that we use today
for a billion people will likely mostly be
several billion, call it a hundred billion agents
working around the clock
and they're using the internet and talking to each other.
And what are they saying?
So for example,
there'll be companies working with companies,
employees, agents working with other employees, agents.
There'll be self-driving cars, which are agentic.
There'll be robots, which are agentic.
All the manufacturing systems,
every building will be agentic.
There'll be agents all over the place
and there'll be using the internet
and all of those commands that they generate to each other
will be generated.
All of the thoughts that they have to understand,
all generated, does that make sense?
And so basically the world is going to be
this layer of computing that's gonna cocoon the earth
and it's gonna be generating intelligence all the time.
Now, I just said something that sounds ridiculous,
except in fact, it's already happened twice.
So 300 years ago, a company in Germany called Siemens
produced a machine and this machine
is really interesting machine.
You go up to this machine, you light it on fire
and then this incredible invisible force
comes out the other end.
Nobody understood what it was.
We understand it now as electricity.
How many power generators are there in the world?
We call it a grid.
Power generation cocoons the planet.
We call it the grid.
And then of course, 20 some odd years ago,
earlier than that, 35 years ago,
this networking scheme, networking matrix fabric
was created here in the United States,
eventually became the internet.
And where is it?
It cocoons the world.
And so now you have energy, communications, intelligence
and it will cocoon the world.
And we'll use it for, it'll just be a commodity
and we'll use it all over the place.
And so what NVIDIA does for a living is this new machine.
The machine that was invented 300 years ago
is called the Dynamo.
That Dynamo, anything that moves comes in,
it could be waterfalls, it could be wind, fire, steam,
transfer it from motion, atoms, right, to electrons.
Atoms to electrons.
We then take the electrons into our machine
called NVIDIA.
Electrons now comes into our machine,
comes in this factory and what comes out are numbers.
These numbers, depending on how you combine them,
turns into language, math.
It can also turn into a new language we've learned,
proteins.
We learn the language of human biology.
We learn the language of the physical world,
physics, climate, weather.
We learn the language of the 3D world,
robotics, self-driving cars.
We learn the language of all kinds
of different forms of intelligence.
But the point being, now these two machines,
300 years apart, atoms in, electrons out,
electrons in, numbers out, and those numbers
could be rejiggered, reformulated
into all kinds of different intelligence.
That's what we do for a living
and that's why I call it a factory
because it's producing, we call them tokens,
but they're just numbers, tokens,
and these tokens are intelligence.
That's it, that's what we do.
It's not that hard.
Brilliant.
Now you know what AI is for
and now you know how AI is built
and how big it's gonna be.
Thank you all for joining today.
Thank you.
Good job, excellent question.
I really felt that carried it, the prompt.
You laid it up for me.
Okay, so this is a massive revolution
and you laid out three transformations,
energy transformation, which touches everyone today
and a lot of the people in the audience
are part of these manufacturing
and energy producers globally,
telecommunications, which connects all of us,
and now intelligence.
And in energy, you talked about the generator,
telecommunications, I guess the comparable
would be the switch or something along those lines
for routing communications globally.
And now in the intelligence revolution,
it's the GPU at the core.
And the AI factory like the H100
or any of the new systems that bring everything you need
under the same hood, Vera Rubin, what have you.
These factories, so you know, these generators,
it's each one of our units, we call it a rack.
There's 72 chips inside, we manufacture,
call it 8 million of them this year,
but 72 of them go into a rack.
That rack weighs two tons.
It is $4 million, has one and a half million parts.
And it's the most expensive piece of equipment
in the world.
And we manufacture them, I guess it would be like phones.
I mean, we crank them out and they go into data centers
all over the world and yeah.
We build these machines in volume.
They are big devices.
This is how you do your weightlifting, I understand.
No volume discounts.
Okay, so you laid out this picture
of a very exciting world that we are in.
We're in the middle of this revolution.
You could say decades in, you could say years in.
Certainly now in the mainstream
of the intelligence revolution.
How do we participate?
I'm sure everybody here wants to participate
in this revolution.
Yeah, excellent question.
Let's start with big enterprises
and then let's get to individuals as well.
How do people join this movement?
And so now I gave you two mental models.
I'm gonna give you one more mental model.
So one mental model, they're really,
we could talk about this story
and hopefully we cover all four phases.
I just talked about what AI can do.
I talked about how AI is made
and these things are in these factories.
These factories are,
each gigawatt is about $50 billion.
So have you ever seen,
it's the most expensive factory in the world,
but it also, that one $50 billion factory
also generates 300, $400 billion in intelligence.
And so the production value is incredible.
The return on investment is extremely fast.
And so that's the factory part.
The part that I'm gonna tell you now,
and this is very important when you think about investment,
is what does the industrial layout look like for AI?
And the way to think about the industrial view
is think of it as a five-layer cake.
Now I told you on the bottom is energy.
The bottom is, remember I said the dynamo.
Now we have, of course, different AC generators
and things like that, power generation.
And so on the lowest layer is energy.
This is the single greatest opportunity
in several generations for the energy industries to grow.
The very first time in probably, I don't know,
a hundred years since the energy grid
in many countries could be invested in,
this is the best opportunity to invest
in sustainable energy.
If you care about sustainable energy,
nuclear, air, or wind, solar, you name it,
whatever form, hydrogen, whatever form,
so long as it produces energy, it's gonna get funded.
And so that tells you something
about how great of a time this is
because we have a trillion dollars.
Just think, this year alone,
we're gonna put a trillion dollars from the market
into this entire five-layer cake I'm about to describe to you.
So the first layer is energy.
That's the reason why Siemens is doing so well,
that Mitsubishi is doing fantastically.
GE, Brnova, I mean, everybody.
The first layer of the cake is energy.
The second layer of the cake is chips and computers
and networking and switches and silicon photonics.
Does that make sense?
It's all the computers.
The third layer of the cake, we call it infrastructure.
Land, power, shell, money, data center operations,
every one of them in scarce supply today.
And so that's the next layer, is infrastructure layer.
And then the layer that everybody sees
that everybody thinks is AI is the model layer.
Does it make sense?
That's the next layer.
It sits on top of the computers,
the cloud infrastructure,
and this is the greatest opportunity
in recent human history that I know
that so much market-driven investment
is naturally coming into the ecosystem.
This is a great time to build.
And so now that's the model layer.
The next layer is open AI, it's anthropic,
but this is the part that you can't overlook.
This is very important.
So you have two companies that you know of,
that you hear about.
However, don't forget, AI, as I was explaining earlier,
has learned the language.
It learns the language and the meaning,
the language, the meaning of anything that is structural.
So that layer, what's really important,
so we hear, we talk about all the language,
but don't forget, you can learn anything with structure.
And so let me give you an example of something
with structure.
Today, when I walked into a room,
I was expecting a lot of people,
and it wasn't unexpected the way you appear.
Now, if some of you were hanging off the ceiling
and floating in midair,
and some of you, one human,
but body parts in 17 different places,
and I could see through some of you,
then it's hard to learn that
because every time it's different,
because it's hard to learn quantum things.
However, things with structure, we can learn, right?
People have eyes, and so you can learn these things.
And so 3D, I learned the laws of physics.
I sat down, and notice, I sat down with confidence.
I wasn't 50%, 53% of the time,
I landed safely on the chair.
The other 47% of the time, I went right through it.
And so I can't trust it, but 100% of the time.
Do you guys understand?
And so if things are predictable,
then there's structure you can learn from it,
and you can learn the meaning of it, okay?
And so we learned the meaning of proteins.
We're learning the meaning of genes,
not just sequencing it, not just CRISPR editing it,
but what is the meaning of that gene?
What is the meaning of a cell?
Why does a cell do what the cell does?
What happens if two cells come together?
And so this is no different than,
imagine I learned the meaning of a cell
the way I learned the meaning of a word.
And what happens when I take two words and put them together?
These two words activate each other,
turn into something else of another meaning, okay?
And so from a computer's perspective,
it doesn't care if it's a cell, a protein, a word,
an image, a car, does that make sense?
It's just tokens.
And so we have to figure out, as computer scientists,
we have to figure out how to represent
the world's information in all these different ways
so that the computer can understand it.
Understand it, reason about it, come up with a plan,
generate an action, the intelligence loop.
Proteins the same way, cells the same way,
the human anatomy is the same way.
It must be predictable.
It's predictable because tomorrow morning
I'm largely the same.
It must be predictable, okay?
And so we're learning all these different,
my point is there are two language models
that you guys know about, but AI is a giant industry.
The industry of everything else physical
is about $80 trillion.
It is actually the most important frontier,
the parts that we're not talking about.
And then on top of that, this model, this technology
then feeds into all the stuff
that Constantine gets to see these days,
which is all of these startups
that are coming up with revolutionary ideas
in financial services, in legal, in accounting,
in transportation, logistics, isn't that right?
And so what that layer above, this last year,
$100 billion of venture capital investment,
the single largest year of VC investment
in the history of humanity.
All of that money is going into that fifth layer,
the top layer, which is the layer that apply applications
to enhance human condition.
And so there are five layers.
When you think about AI and you wanna invest in this future,
and I promise you this future is gonna be gigantic
because two years ago, zero, it's approximately,
we're about to put $1 trillion in,
but that's $1 trillion out of the,
we're gonna be putting in probably the AI industry,
I'm gonna guess for a second,
probably something along the lines of $20 trillion a year,
we're $1 trillion in of a $20 trillion a year ecosystem.
Because the production of intelligence,
you just gotta ask yourself, how important is intelligence?
And who needs it?
And how much of it do you want?
And so those are kind of the basic questions
and all of that intelligence, whether it's for proteins
or cars or robots or language or math, science,
whatever it is, has to be generated by these machines.
And so this five layer cake is the industrial version.
And I think that's a good way to think about
where to invest.
Hugely so.
So you've described what is a multi-trillion dollar
opportunity to become part of this revolution.
And that includes the hardware and the facilities,
if it's $50 billion for a gigawatt,
and there's 100 plus coming online
in the next several years,
that is trillions plus the application layer
where that is many, many more trillions,
plus, plus, plus, and that means real jobs
for people doing the hands in building,
and then also-
Right now, exactly.
And we have to really emphasize this,
and this is very important to you.
Every country has a different attitude about AI today.
Would you guys agree with that?
Every country, because everybody's culture
is a little different, okay?
And here's my recommendation.
Be careful with the analogies
and the science fiction stories that this is Terminator
and words like singularity
and ideas that somebody say,
in 20% chance, this will be the end of humanity
as we know it, okay?
Those kind of articulations of AI is just nonsense.
It is complete nonsense.
Oh, we have no idea how it works.
This is so mysterious, we don't even know how it works.
It might just get up out of its seat
and walk out tomorrow morning.
There's no question in my mind,
it's computer and software.
And there's no question in my mind,
they know how it works.
And do you know how they know how it works?
Because every single year, apparently it's getting better.
If you don't know how something works,
how do you make it better?
I have no idea how it works,
but I know how to make it better.
That's nonsense.
So why are they saying these things?
That's an interesting question.
However, don't let it scare you.
You must engage it.
You may or may not lose a job to an AI,
but you will absolutely lose a job
to someone who uses AI.
Would you agree with that?
Okay, so let's not worry about the things
you're not sure about
and focus on the things that you are sure about.
I am absolutely certain I will lose my job
to someone who uses AI.
So before I worry about AI,
let's just go make sure I use AI.
And so the part that,
now, why is that common sense
so important for me to tell you?
Because some of you have children.
What are you advising them?
Run away?
Or make sure whatever this technology is
that gives people superpowers,
that you go make sure you use it.
So I'm hoping that we do two things.
One, we are, and we're doing everything we can
to build this technology safely for the world.
I promise you so much computer science,
so much investment, so much passion
dedicated to making this technology
safe for everybody to use.
And I can prove it.
Use Chat GPT-2 two years ago and use it again.
The amount of hallucination
completely reduced to almost nothing.
To the point where it's producing knowledge
not only accurately, contextually relevant,
relevant to the moment,
and if it doesn't know the answer,
it does research,
and when it comes up with an answer,
it even questions itself.
Before it tells you an answer,
it reflects on it.
And it comes up with two or three different answers,
and it reflects on those
before it produces the answer for you.
The amount of safety and guard railing,
grounding of truth,
the technology has advanced so fast
to make it safe.
I am certain I can tell you this completely with fact.
I prefer my car today
than the car that was 100 years ago.
The technology is a lot better,
but it's a lot safer.
And it takes a lot of technology to be invented
in order for it to be safe.
And so I can tell you
that it is our job,
it is the responsibility of the technology industry,
the responsibility of scientists and engineers
for us to build AI safely.
Two, it is your responsibility
to make sure that you tell the people that you love,
whether it's your family,
your kids,
your grandkids,
or the company you work for,
or the country that you're in.
Whatever we do,
engage AI.
If we think it's a superpower,
engage it.
Because if we don't engage it,
somebody else will.
We're not gonna lose our lives to AI.
We're gonna lose our lives to somebody who uses AI.
And so that's my,
well, that's too serious.
That's too serious.
That was because he said the word job.
So I've got a trigger,
and the trigger is a bunch of people
making stuff up about jobs.
We put a trillion dollars
into the world's ecosystem this year, did we not?
What's it doing?
Making jobs.
Right now, the energy sector,
more jobs than ever.
The chip sector,
more jobs than ever.
Infrastructure layer,
more jobs than ever.
Everything from land,
power,
shell,
finances.
AI model layer,
more jobs than ever.
And we just said a hundred billion dollars
last year went into the upper layer,
more jobs than ever.
We're creating so many more jobs.
Now somebody might say,
well, what about the traditional jobs?
So let me give you the example.
You know that everybody's job
and their task is related, not the same.
A job and the task you do in the job
is related, not the same.
So for example,
my job is to be the CEO,
to lead the company.
Most of the time,
and I spent a lot of it today,
most of my time,
my task is typing and talking.
And so you could say CEO equals typing and talking.
Both of them,
AI does in a superhuman way.
And I'm busier than ever.
Now I'm giving you,
of course, that's a really cute example,
but let me give you a more,
a deep example,
and you can now apply it.
So 10 years ago,
slightly more than that,
one of the world's leading computer scientists
wanted to warn everybody
about the power of AI.
And so he said,
and Constantine probably knows who it is.
He said,
the first job that AI will destroy and eliminate,
and I advise nobody goes into this field
because this field will be wiped out,
is radiology.
Computer vision is superhuman.
Already 12 years ago,
computer vision,
a computer can recognize images,
detect anomalies with superhuman capability,
never gets tired,
never miss a detail.
12 years ago,
it was able to do that.
And he predicted as a result of that,
radiology is going to be wiped out.
Well, he was absolutely right.
Radiology was completely penetrated by computer vision.
Computer vision proliferated
through every single form of radiology
and every radiology stack
and every radiologist today
is augmented by computer vision.
However, the interesting thing is this,
radiology demand went up.
The number of radiologists in the world went up.
Why?
Audience participation, please.
Why?
I heard some of the things,
it's all true.
It turns out,
radiology spends a lot of time studying scans,
but the purpose of the radiology,
the purpose of the radiologist
is to work with doctors to diagnose disease,
to work with doctors to diagnose disease.
And because it's now automated,
they are more productive.
So two things happen.
More patients are admitted into the hospital.
They do more scans.
The radiology department became more profitable.
When they realized they were more profitable
and they were admitting more patients,
they hired more radiologists
so that they could admit more patients
so that they could make more money,
take care of more people,
because as it turns out,
there are a lot of people who are suffering
and they're waiting to get into the hospital.
So now, let's pretend for a second,
do you appreciate the computer scientists tell you
it's going to be the end of the world for radiologists?
My point is,
we have to be responsible about what we make up
because we could have done harm.
And it turns out,
the number of people who want to be radiologists
after his speech,
because it permeated through everything,
the number of radiologists started to decline,
but we need more radiologists.
Now, somebody recently said,
90% of software coding will be gone
and therefore we don't need software engineers.
Meanwhile, we're hiring more software engineers than ever.
And the reason for that is because a software engineer's job
is to solve problems and dream up problems to solve,
innovate.
I never hired somebody and said,
hey, guess what?
You're a software engineer.
Listen, here's a keyboard.
Show me how many words a second you can type.
Typing is not the job of a software engineer.
Coding is not their job.
Solving problems is their job.
And so I just gave you two examples,
task versus purpose.
Does that make sense?
It turns out this example happens all over the place.
But because we have such a contrived,
such a naive understanding
that computer scientists could say things like,
50% of the jobs will be gone.
Software coding is completely irrelevant.
Radiology is gonna be wiped out
because we think about it from the task perspective.
We forgot the purpose of the job.
There were radiologists before there were workstations.
There are gonna be radiologists after AI.
There were engineers before software coding.
I promise you that.
There will be engineers after.
Does that make sense?
And so that's the way to think about jobs.
And I've now covered two things.
One, if your country is not investing in AI,
there's a massive boom of jobs that you're missing out on.
If your country or your company is not investing in AI,
there's a level of elevation of your people
that you're missing out on.
AI is not going to eliminate jobs.
AI is going to elevate your job.
If I were a plumber today,
largely I get a job task sheet or a schematic.
However, if I'm a plumber tomorrow,
it is very likely I'm a designer as well.
Does that make sense?
Because you and I both know that we could just use AI
to generate these incredible designs of a kitchen,
if I'm a carpenter.
If I were a salesperson of furniture,
I'm gonna be an interior designer for sure.
And so I've elevated my craft.
Went from somebody who sells furniture
to somebody who could advise you
on how beautiful your home could be.
I went from somebody who's a carpenter,
you expecting me to come and just put some wood together,
and now I'm your home designer.
I've elevated my craft.
I've given you so many examples, but that's my point.
I think the narrative about AI is absolutely wrong.
And the goal is to scare everybody out of it
so that some people could benefit from it.
But AI, as you know, is the greatest force
for eliminating the technology divide in my entire career.
I spent 40 some odd years,
my entire life has been in computer design.
I spent 40 some odd years,
and this entire time, the technology we created
became more and more and more and more complex.
And the number of people who could program these computers
as a percentage of population declined.
Who in this room knows C++?
Come on, cut it out, you weirdos.
This row is a startup company.
Okay, and so this row,
okay, so we're looking at 2%, okay?
2%, and this is a very strange room.
This is a very strange room.
And so 2% of society knows C++.
How many people know human?
Okay, more than 2%.
And so everybody now can program a computer,
and yet in the past, only 2% can.
We have closed the technology divide.
We gotta bring everybody with us.
Does that make sense?
Okay, anyways, that's it.
On a Friday night, that's too serious.
That is extremely optimistic, and I agree.
And it's great to hear from someone
who is closer to actual building of the actual technology
that powers everything than anyone else in the world.
So Jensen, you talked about a future
where we move from retrieval,
this paradigm that we've had our entire lives in,
to generation, where everything is customized,
knowledge is customized for the individual,
a world where we have the generation of intelligence
paralleling from the energy
to the telecommunications revolution
to now the intelligence revolution.
You talked about these languages
that the computer can speak,
not just English or German, but even protein.
You talked about five layers of participation,
the abundant opportunity to participate in this revolution
for everyone in this room and everyone listening.
And you talked about how this transformation
is gonna be something that has real consequences,
real consequences that allow people to move
from just doing the task
to dreaming the problems and the solutions,
maybe even a life of purpose
and a life where we move from carpenters to architects.
Thank you, Jensen.
Please join me in thanking Jensen Huang
and Emmanuel Bichaud-Hopkins.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
You're welcome.
Really appreciate it.
Thank you.