Ezra Klein
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40,290 appearances
178 recordings
23 series
first heard Aug 2024
last heard 3d ago
Ezra Klein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Over the course of these last few weeks, where the whole world has been talking about artificial intelligence, the voices people have been hearing most loudly are from the Frontier Labs, both their CEOs and leaders and their staffers.
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These are the labs making the very advanced AI models like Claude and ChatGPT and Gemini and others.
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But they're not the only perspective on AI.
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Probably the single most influential person in artificial intelligence is Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA.
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NVIDIA is now the largest company in the world, $5.4 trillion in market cap.
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I found this statistic amazing.
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Since 2023, 15 cents of every single dollar the American stock exchange has returned has been from NVIDIA stock.
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And the reason is that NVIDIA is the material and software substrate on which modern artificial intelligence is built.
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NVIDIA's chips are not popular because AI is popular.
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AI in its modern form was made possible because NVIDIA's chips were popular.
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They were originally made for graphic processing, video games, that kind of thing.
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But it turned out the kind of parallel computing they were doing and the way they were programmable was exactly what was needed to make
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Deep learning in its modern form work.
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Huang is not just influential in terms of controlling one of the central resources for training new AI models and using them to answer questions and create intelligence in the world.
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He's also become very, very influential in the Trump administration.
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And Huang has a very different perspective than some of the lab leads.
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He's worried about safety, but sees it as a very solvable engineering problem.
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He is worried about the direction things are going in, but does not want to see new regulation to change it.
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And so I wanted to see how Huang perceives AI, what his model is for thinking about it, what he thinks is going wrong, and what he thinks would need to happen for it to go right.
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So I came out to Santa Clara to Nvidia's headquarters to interview him.
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