Akshay Kumar asks Nvidia CEO what ‘AI cannot copy’

At the 2024 Nvidia AI Summit in Mumbai, Akshay Kumar was on stage to ask Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI.

Nvidia is the world leader in artificial intelligence computing and Huang has been in India to discuss the future of AI in the country.

Alongside Mukesh Ambani, he announced that Reliance and Nvidia would be partnering to “build AI infrastructure in India”.

This included training hundreds of thousands of developers.

At the event, Akshay Kumar had the opportunity to pick Huang’s brain about AI and its capabilities.

But the question he had on his mind was:

“What is one thing which AI cannot copy from humans?”

Huang said that depended on the jobs humans do, explaining:

“Sometimes it [AI] could do 20% of our jobs, 20% of our work, a thousand times better.

“For some people, it might be able to do 50% of their job a thousand times better.

“But in no job could it do all of it.”

Huang went on to advise that workers should use AI to assist them in their profession.

“Every one of us should apply AI to become an assistant, to help us with that either 20%, 40% or 50%.”

Speaking about the most important thing for Nvidia, Huang said:

“The most important thing for us right now is to build amazing AI, build safe AI.

“That’s good engineering discipline, good engineering process, methodologies, technologies. All come together so that we can build safe AIs.”

Giving an example, he told Akshay Kumar:

“It’s like building a safe aeroplane. The automation system, with diversity and redundancy, all of the backup systems make it possible for air travel, the aeroplane to be safe and air travel to be safe.

“The same ideas will apply to artificial intelligence.”

“It is our fundamental mission to enable AI to realise for the benefits of society but doing it in a way that is systematically safe.

“And not only do we make AI safe, we create other AIs to keep it safe.”

In addition to partnering with Ambani’s Reliance, other Indian companies such as Infosys and Wipro have been using Nvidia’s software to develop custom AI applications for corporate clients.

Huang added: “India used to be a country that exported software. In the future, India will be a country that exports AI.”