Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated at London Tech Week on Monday that artificial intelligence serves as an “equalizer,” enabling users to program with natural language.
Huang addressed the challenges of traditional computing, noting the necessity for specialized programming languages and complex computer architecture. He said, “We had to learn programming languages. We had to architect it. We had to design these computers that are very complicated.”
Huang introduced “human” as a new programming language, coinciding with the rise of conversational AI models after the debut of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in 2022. ChatGPT reported 400 million weekly active users in February.
Chatbots like ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Microsoft’s Copilot allow users to pose questions and receive conversational responses, simulating human interaction. Huang emphasized that while expertise in languages like C++ or Python is limited, “everybody … knows ‘human’.”
Huang explained, “The way you program a computer today, to ask the computer to do something for you, even write a program, generate images, write a poem — just ask it nicely.” He further stated, “And the thing that’s really, really quite amazing is the way you program an AI is like the way you program a person.”
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Huang illustrated this by describing how to request a poem about the London Tech Week keynote speech: “You say: You are an incredible poet … And I would like you to write a poem to describe today’s keynote. And without very much effort, this AI would help you generate such a wonderful poem.”
He continued, “And when it answers … you could say: I feel like you could do even better. And it would go off and think about it, and it’ll come back and say, in fact, I can do better, and it does do a better job.”
These comments are concurrent with a growing trend of companies, including Shopify, Duolingo, and Fiverr, encouraging employees to utilize AI in their work. OpenAI reported having 3 million paying business users last week.
Huang consistently promotes AI’s capacity to enhance worker efficiency and advocates for its adoption to maintain employee value. He stated, “This way of interacting with computers, I think, is something that almost anybody can do, and I would just encourage everybody to engage it. Children are already doing that themselves naturally, and this is going to be transformative.”
