- NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has laid the future of manufacturing amid the rise of AI. Advanced manufacturers such as automakers and companies that build construction equipment will eventually give AI computing power to the self -driven version of their products.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has laid a vision for American manufacturing, including futuristic AI factories next to industrial plants.
In a conversation on Wednesday, Huang explained that, in the future, companies that have semiautonomous or autonomous vehicles will eventually provide the power of AI computing that is needed to operate them without someone. To make that happen, companies that Huang called Huang called an “AI factory” in line with their manufacturing plants.
“In the future, every company that builds things will have a factory that builds the items they sell, and then it will have another factory that builds up and makes AI,” Huang Wednesday told Washington DC to Hill and valley foruma gathering of tech and policy officials.
Huang said the need for the corresponding AI plants would be applied to “every company that does things now, as long as they move.” He gave examples of lawn mowers, construction equipment, and cars. While all of them are currently operated by people, they can be self -driving in the future, he said; The continued AI technology is necessary for them to work. Eventually, those companies will build their own systems to empower AI to run their products in the future. Huang said it was “very clear” that car companies would do it.
Throughout his comments, Huang determined the need for the ongoing generation of AI tokens, the basic unit of artificial intelligence that eventually gained a change in text, video, or any other output. In the future, facilities will be built across the country for that purpose.
“I call them AI factories because it does one thing every day: it makes tokens,” Huang said.
AI will further change the manufacturing sector by creating virtual-reality copies of factories, referred to by Huang as “digital twins.” Doing so will allow the test of various features and development in a factory before building it in the real world.
“Include many wonderful structures that are completely digital -operate it, optimize it, and use it for planning your output completely digital,” Huang said.
Nvidia used “digital twins” to test its chips before it starts to build them in the real world, he said. The same can be applied to modern-day advanced manufacturing factories due to the technology level these plants have.
“The whole factory is driven by software,” Huang said. “The whole factory – this is a robot that brings a whole group of robots inside.”
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