There’s no vital reason for sending kids to computer science school anymore because technology is quickly advancing to a point where programming and other complex disciplines can be accomplished via artificial intelligence, according to new comments that Jensen Huang, NVIDIA Founder, President, and CEO, shared during a talk at the World Governments Summit this month. “Everybody in the world is now a programmer,” mentioned Huang, whose company reported record full-year revenues of $47.5 billion for its Data Center business alone last week.
Jensen explained:
- “…you probably recall…over the course of the last 10 years, 15 years, almost everybody who sits on a stage like this would tell you it is vital that your children learn computer science…everybody should learn how to program…”
- “…it’s almost exactly the opposite…it is our job to create computing technology such that nobody has to program, and that the programming language is human.”
- “Everybody in the world is now a programmer…this is the miracle of artificial intelligence…[because] for the very first time, we have closed the gap. The technology divide has been completely closed.”
- “…so many people can engage [with] artificial intelligence. It is the reason why every single government, every single industrial conference, every single company, is talking about artificial intelligence today, because for the very first time, you can imagine everybody in your company being a technologist.”
Jensen on who will shape the future of AI: