‘THE THINKING MACHINE’ AUTHOR GIVES OPTIMISTIC VIEW OF AI, WITH GUARD- RAILS Author Stephen Witt wouldn’t trust a robot with a knife just yet. But he sees an autonomous future for restaurants. By Lisa Jennings S tephen Witt doesn’t trust a robot with a knife. But he does see a very near future
Huang. Nvidia, of course, is the maker of micro- chips, along with much of the equip- ment that goes into data centers that fuel the AI boom. Witt called Nvidia the largest and most powerful company in the world, and he said Jensen has President Trump’s ear. The data center buildout will be the biggest infrastructure investment in history, said Witt. It will be bigger than railroads and canals combined; bigger
than highways; and bigger than tele- com. And most of that construction will involve Nvidia, which is positioned to earn about $250 billion in profit this year, Witt said. Now Jensen is all in on robots, believ- ing that everything that moves will be- come autonomous and controlled by AI. And Nvidia has been working on robot brains since long before the robots even existed. When asked if we will have fully au-
in which everything that moves will have a motor on it with autonomous in- telligence. Witt, who spoke during the FSTEC conference in Dallas, is an investiga- tive journalist, television producer, and author of the book “The Thinking Ma- chine,” which offers insight into the tech company Nvidia and CEO Jensen
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