Advancements in the Chip Industry and the Role of AI in Accelerated Computing — ITF World 2023

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3 min readMay 17, 2023

Key Points:

1. The ITF World 2023 Keynote with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang discussed advancements in the chip industry and the role of AI in advancing the field.

2. The industry is experiencing two simultaneous platform transitions, accelerated computing and generative AI.

3. Accelerated computing is sustainable computing and requires full stack engineering from chip architecture, algorithm acceleration libraries, and application reengineering.

4. Generative AI is a new wave of computing that requires no programming skills and uses plain human language to perform seemingly intelligent tasks.

5. The impact of generative AI is profound, and as we advance the capabilities of AI, we must also be mindful to put even more emphasis on advancing the safety of AI.

6. The next wave of AI is embodied AI, which refers to intelligent systems that can understand, reason about, and interact with the physical world.

7. The ITF World 2023 Keynote discussed the concept of physics informed AI, which can learn to emulate physics and make predictions that…

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