The world’s factories will be powered by robots and artificial intelligence within a decade, as machine learning and automation replace humans in assembly line work, especially those that are repetitive and hazardous, said the founder of the world’s most valuable company.
“Today, AI is [a] fundamental infrastructure, like electricity and internet before, [and] AI is revolutionising the supply chain, changing how we build and move things,” said Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, during the opening ceremony of the International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing on Wednesday. “Hundreds of projects in China are simulating digital twins in Nvidia’s omniverse to design and optimise factories and warehouses.”
Huang was the guest of honour at the expo in his third trip to the Chinese capital this year. His California-based chip-design firm, established in 1993, is poised to resume shipments of its made-for-China H20 chips to the country.
The US government has “assured Nvidia that licences will be granted” for exporting the H20 chip, a made-for-China product that was less powerful than Nvidia’s gold-standard acceleration chip, according to a Tuesday statement by Nvidia.
Speaking intermittently in English and halting Mandarin, the Taiwanese American entrepreneur applauded Chinese technology firms’ progress, saying that AI has powered “iconic” platforms such as Tencent Holdings’ WeChat, Alibaba Group Holding’s Taobao and ByteDance’s Douyin.
