Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has said that programming AI is similar to “the way you program a person” — and that “human” is the new coders’ language.
“The thing that’s really, really quite amazing is the way you program an AI is like the way you program a person,” Huang told London Tech Week on Monday.
Huang shared an example, saying, “You say, ‘You are an incredible poet. You are deeply steeped in Shakespeare, and I would like you to write a poem to describe today’s keynote.’ Without very much effort, this AI would help you generate such a wonderful poem.
“And when it answers, you could say, ‘I feel like you could do even better.’ And it will go off and think about it and it will come back and say, ‘In fact, I can do better.’ And it does do a better job.”
Huang said that in the past, “technology was hard to use” and that to access computer science, “we had to learn programming languages, architect systems, and design very complicated computers.
“But now, all of a sudden, there’s a new programming language. This new programming language is called human.”
“Most people don’t know C++, very few people know Python, and everybody, as you know, knows human.”
Huang called AI “the great equalizer” for making technology accessible to everyone and called the shift “transformative.
“This way of interacting with computers, I think, is something that almost anybody can do,” he said.
“The way you program a computer today is to ask the computer to do something for you, even write a program, generate images, write a poem — just ask it nicely,” Huang added.
At the World Government Summit in Dubai last year, Huang suggested the tech sector should focus less on coding and more on using AI as a tool across fields like farming, biology, and education.
“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,” Huang said at the time.
