At the annual conference, SIGGRAPH 2024, NVIDIA CEO and Founder, Jensen Huang, and Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, shared their perspectives on artificial intelligence, and its impact on the future.
The conversation was initiated with Mark Zuckerberg, who launched AI Studio, a platform designed to incorporate AI creation. This creative tool allows Meta users to discover, share, and create AI characters. It is for opening up the development of artificial intelligence to millions of creators and small and large-scale businesses.
At the same conference, NVIDIA’s founder, Huang, emphasised the growth of artificial intelligence in the future, stating, “Every single restaurant, every single website will probably, in the future, have these AI’s.”
Zuckerberg supported his statement, saying, “…just like every business has an email address and a website and a social media account, I think, in the future, every business is going to have an AI.”
Huang’s vision supports NVIDIA’s newly launched project at SIGGRAPH 2024. It showcased James, a digital human based on the design of the NVIDIA ACE. The virtual assistant, James, is capable of providing assistance and responses for business customer interactions.
The discussion further highlighted Meta’s definite contribution to artificial intelligence development, which was showcased at the SIGGRAPH event. NVIDIA’s CEO, praising the developments of META, said, “You guys have done amazing AI work.” He also talked about the widespread use of PyTorch, a machine-learning library developed by Meta.
Zuckerberg manifests “All Social Media Applications in a Single AI Model”
At the event, Mark emphasised and shared his future dreams of AI integration with social media and Meta.
He said,
“I kind of dream of one day like you can almost imagine all of Facebook or Instagram being like a single AI model that has unified all these different content types and systems together.”
The conversation brought out more expectations from AI. According to Huang, soon, artificial intelligence will be able to generate images in “real-time”; as users enter the prompt, the tool will generate images. This idea was also reflected in NVIDIA’s newly launched project for its Maxine AI Platforms. It also includes Maxine 3D and Audio 2Face-2D.
Looking ahead, Mark Zuckerberg expressed enthusiasm for artificial intelligence for more complex and multi-option simulations.
Huang explained,
“Today’s AI is kind of turn-based. You say something, it says something back to you. In the future, AI could contemplate multiple options, or come up with a tree of options and simulate outcomes, making it much more powerful.”
