Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the ChatGPT moment for robotics is 'nearly here'

AI was an abstract tech concept with no real-world use cases until ChatGPT came along, and now Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the same thing will happen with robotics.

The moment, in his view, is ‘nearly here’.

Admittedly, that’s a pretty generic statement.

But there are a couple of reasons to believe he’s actually right.

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From a relatively unknown company to a tech giant

Given its recent trajectory, it’d be tempting to call Nvidia a ‘new company’, but that’d be inaccurate.

For the longest time, Nvidia was a company only hardcore gamers were familiar with, mainly because it made high-end graphics cards that gamers used.

That changed dramatically when people realized Nvidia makes the sort of tech you need to run AI: GPUs.

The company’s rise obviously coincided with the rise of its CEO, Jensen Huang, who, lest we forget, is also the founder.

In addition to a much, much bigger net worth, Nvidia’s growth also gave Huang authority.

These days, he’s in the same league as Tim Cook, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg.

When they talk tech, people listen.

And Jensen Huang’s latest take on AI and robotics is interesting.

Why Jensen Huang believes a ChatGPT moment is coming

First of all, we should probably explain what Huang means when he talks about a ‘ChatGPT moment’.

AI has been around for a while, but it wasn’t much more than a concept until it finally became real with ChatGPT.

In 2022, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT and gave the world a clear, tangible real-world use case for AI.

According to Jensen Huang, the same thing will happen with robotics.

For now, robots like Tesla Optimus are in still in ‘Beta’ phase, but they’ll soon be available globally.

They’ll go mainstream – so to speak.

These humanoid androids are already being used for specific tasks but, probably sooner than we think, we’ll have our own Optimus companion.

Maybe.