{"id":379766,"date":"2025-12-31T16:59:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T16:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/379766\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T16:59:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T16:59:17","slug":"the-man-behind-the-worlds-most-coveted-microchip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/379766\/","title":{"rendered":"The man behind the world\u2019s most coveted microchip"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>For the best listening experience and to never miss an episode, subscribe to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/podcasts\/machines-like-us\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Machines Like Us<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/podcast\/big-tech\/id1484910273\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/3i7GpvRRKksv76DzCcB34J\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Jensen Huang is something of an enigma. The NVIDIA chief executive doesn\u2019t have social media and, until recently, rarely gave interviews. Yet he may be the most important person in AI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Under his leadership, NVIDIA has become a Goliath. Somewhere between 80 and 90 per cent of AI tools run on NVIDIA hardware, making it the world\u2019s most valuable company. But unlike his contemporaries, Huang has been remarkably quiet about the technology \u2013 and the world \u2013 he\u2019s building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">In his new book, The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, NVIDIA, and the World\u2019s Most Coveted Microchip, journalist Stephen Witt pulls back the curtain. And what he finds is, at times, shocking: Huang believes there is zero risk in developing superintelligence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">So who is Jensen Huang? And should we worry that the most powerful person in AI is racing forward at breakneck speed, blind to the potential consequences?<\/p>\n<p>Mentioned: <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/757558\/the-thinking-machine-by-stephen-witt\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, NVIDIA, and the World\u2019s Most Coveted Microchip<\/a>, by Stephen Witt <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2023\/12\/04\/how-jensen-huangs-nvidia-is-powering-the-ai-revolution\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How Jensen Huang\u2019s Nvidia Is Powering the A.I. Revolution<\/a>, by Stephen Witt (The New Yorker) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/10\/10\/opinion\/ai-destruction-technology-future.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World<\/a>, by Stephen Witt (New York Times)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Machines Like Us is produced by Mitchell Stuart. Our theme song is by Chris Kelly. Video editing by Emily Graves. Our executive producer is James Milward. Special thanks to Angela Pacienza and the team at The Globe and Mail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Media sourced from the BBC. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the best listening experience and to never miss an episode, subscribe to Machines Like Us on Apple&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,84958,277,49,48,796,84959,84957,44061,1399,6494,1404,161957,61],"class_list":["post-379766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-learning","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-machine-learning","tag-machines-like-us","tag-machineslikeus","tag-microchip","tag-nopolly","tag-nvidia","tag-podcast","tag-podcast-episode-id-7529e53b-1418-4347-bf0e-d94a7b84fb69","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}