Can we map Top Women AI Empowerment Networks co-piloting @ Nvidia Jensen Huang

Route 1 with wife Lori- their family foundation is building their alma mater as a best of youth AI lab. Likely Nvidia's life sciences revolutions are a common interest. More search of his family's deep purposes needed. I would also love to know if JK Rowling & Jensen ever brainstorm - she's probably the world's most generous philanthropist for orphans; if Harry Potter sponsored a search for a real digital twin - Jen-sun would be a leading contender. Please see footnote & NB the copyright is not mine.

Route 1.1 medical ai from 200s includes Berkley's Doudna, Frances Charpentier both nobel laureates for CRispr gene editing; Biotech Daphne Koller from Israel who co-founded Stanford's Cousrera Moocs (a platform guided by Mrs Anne Doerr and Lila Ibrahim; Moderna Covid Heroine Kariko; not t mention Priscilla Chan, Condi Rice, Lisa Su ... and as early as 2001 women empowerment landing in silicon vallet with Mrs & Mr Steve Jobs hosting Fazle Abed's 65th birthday pary

Route 2 - with Melinda Gates, Jensen was early in spotting 2012's gamechanging consequences of Fei-Fei Li - ending AI's Winter!. The three co-founded education NGO ai-4-all. NGO-ai world is quite complex -until AI transforms k-12 I will fear for our species. Anyway while a decade of AI-4-all offers a range of sample 3 hour curriculum form k (eg dance with Ai and enjoy robotics as well as peer to peer mind and health nets, draw with ai) through 5rg grade (eg go on nature trails with ai or prep so that mobile never fakes you) 10th grades (which algorithms are part of good engineering) ai-4-all has also given li independence- so she could testify at congress 2018 even while chief scientist at google cloud, or continue to show that any college discipline gains from valuing computer visioning AI before chattering class LLMs). For Melinda Gates, 2012 on has been timely to build her own ever deeper womens moments foundations and to some extent celebrate every way that democratisation of coding is opposite to the programming world Bill built. Its also useful that the original funder in 1993 of Nvidia startup is VC Sequoia's founder given that Li is the Sequoia Chair at Stanford.

Route 3 while a handful of Taiwanese America engineers have been multiplying millennials without borders opportunities uniting their generation and one day nations; the 3 J's all have extraordinary wives Jensen & Lori, Jerry & Akiko , Joseph & Clara who are deeply connected with truste boards of Stanford Trustees or of Stanford's new climate school (funded by 40+ year Valley Veterans Ann & John Doerr This goodwill movement extends deeply into Taiwan where all see Maurice Chang as foundational connector

(We need to clarify this route - eg many feel Ms Tang helped Taiwan to be nation least damaged by covid but its not clear how she networks globally other than being a key benchmark for how her generation can help mentor older public servants as why she is minister of technology). Another parallel Route to explore Asian immigrant female wizards in the Valley eg Priscilla Chan clearly valuing Nvidia's space for celebrating Asian or colored super-engineers.

Route 4 research needed on how Grace Hopper sub-branding emerged- stroke of genius for those who design brand architectures (see genre Economist sub-editors and I founded 1988 for world class brand platforms (and place branding) determined not to be green washed)

Route 5 Barbados, Mia Mottley (and superstar Rihanna) 1 is arguably leading female nation leader copiloting data sovereignty with World Bank leader Ajay Banga and Jensen but see also the Nvidia hosted meeting with AI supporters of Commonwealth. This introduces the question where does King Charles AI commonwealth summit intersect with Jensen's collab visions. Also given Wendy Tan White of google and Burmese British family is one of Google's top robotics women - are there win-wins? Charles Royal societies have since 2009 or earlier been at intersection of Hassabis interests in neuroscience (Gatsby), climate (Royal Geo, Ashden, Attenborough & BBC world service) so can we map more women celebrating these fields

6 Connecting women superstars and women ai genii is already an interest of melinda gates (eg A'JA Wilson and Fei-Fei li books) and Salesforce Benioff's ask more of AI through BJKing and Clara Shih and Fei-Fei Li's husband. Is Jensen linking celebrities with intelligence purposes? Since the King Charles AI world series stops of in Paris, Asian women superstars such as Naomi Osaka become key to making verygoodAI accessible from and to every corner of mother earth anf 8 billion beings

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SUPERHEROS & THE WORLD's VERY GOOD INTELLIGENCES

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December 2023

Jensen Huang’s Life and Company – NVIDIA: building supercomputers today for tomorrow’s AI, his prediction of AGI by 2028 and his thoughts on AI safety, prosperity and new jobs.

December 18, 2023

This is Part Three of the Plato and Young Icarus series. Part One set out the debate in neoclassical terms between the elders would slow down AI and the young who would speed it up. Part Two shared the story of the visionary herald of AI. Ray Kurzweil: Google’s prophet of superintelligent AI who will not slow down. In Part Three we share the story of Jen-Hsun “Jensen” Huang, the CEO and founder of NVIDIA, the U.S. chip manufacturer that makes super AI possible.

NVIDIA, now valued at over $1.3 Trillion, designs and builds new types of specialized, super-fast, neural net imitating chips. Jen-Hsun Huang, who now goes by Jensen Huang, faced great adversity as a nine-year old immigrant. He overcame these challenges to start Nvidia twenty years later. Jensen fears business failure, not AI, which he knows like the back of his hand. All the leading AI software companies like OpenAI and Google need his hardware for their LLM software to work. He and his scientists and engineers at Nvidia know more about what is going on in the AI industry that anyone. Here is Nvidia’s 2023 marketing video that shows what they do. Click image or here to see to see the video.

Nvidia helps all other companies to manufacture intelligence. So when Jensen Huang predicted on November 30, 2023, that AGI would be attained in five years, 2028, a year before Kurzweil’s prediction, the whole world took notice. Watch him make this prediction in the video below when he answered a question by New York Times reporter, Andrew Sorkin, at the November 30, 2023, NY Times Deal Book Summit. Click image or here to see to see the video.

As will be shown in this article, Jensen Huang also supports reasonable product regulation and safety certification, in the manner that has already been done successfully with other potentially dangerous products, such as aviation and automobiles. He also describes how AGI will increase and improve employment, and bring greater prosperity to all willing to learn.

The Incredible Story and Character of Jensen Huang

Please note the rest of this article is told by fans of Jensen Huang- I have not verified which of these stories exist in his own publications. At Ai20s many of huang's co-pilots with world leaders fill us with hope (who fills your brain with hope?)

Jensen himself is a very impressive person with a rags to riches immigrant story that reads like a graphic novel. Jensen recently revealed new details of his story to Stephen Witt, author of the The New Yorker article. How Jensen Huang’s Nvidia Is Powering the A.I. Revolution, (The New Yorker, 11/27/23). Born in 1973 in Taiwan as Jen-Hsun Huang, his parents soon moved to Thailand. Due to the dangers caused by the dramatic end of the Vietnam War, his parents were forced to send him and his older brother, alone, to an uncle in the U.S.

They made it through immigration somehow, but the uncle sent Jen-Hsun Huang, age nine, and his brother, away to what he thought it was a good, private, yet surprisingly affordable boarding school. Wrong. It was actually a notorious reform school in rural Kentucky, a living hell for anyone sent there. It was especially bad for these two undersized Asian immigrants with long hair and heavily accented English.

They had been taught a kind of English by their mother, who did not actually speak or even understand the language, but she had a book, from which she would pick ten random words every day for them to learn. The Huang boys in the back woods of Kentucky were perfect targets at a school for juvenile delinquents. In the New Yorker interview Jen-Hsun admitted that he was at first attacked daily, even stabbed. Knife attacks were common in this religious reform school in Kentucky where many were illiterate, and all smoked cigarettes, except for the Huangs. He and his older brother were subject to constant ethnic slurs, harassment and bullying, often life threatening. Jen-Hsun survived. Little Huang used his wits and he exercised. He eventually did one hundred push-ups every night and learned how to defend himself. He also helped other kids with homework.

In an earlier interview with Stratechery, Jen-Hsun said he was nine and brother eleven when they arrived and they were happy to be there. But he did admit that his brother was forced to work on tobacco farms and that he was forced to clean bathrooms, alone and unpaid. You’d have to call it child, slave labor. He thought that was normal in America, the land of opportunity. So he learned to work hard and survive bullying with a smile.

Two years or so later, his parents were able to immigrate to the United States, realized their kids situation and rescued them. Amazingly in 2019 by then billionaire Jensen Huang donated money to the school for a new building. No hard feelings I guess. Of course, Jen-Hsun also quietly promotes Asian-American rights, where racist discrimination continues to this day throughout the United States.

I am sure Jen-Hsun’s inner strength and determination also has a lot to do with his strong family values. He and his brother must have been very happy when their father (an engineer in Taiwan) and mother were finally able to immigrate to the U.S. and rescue their sons.

Upon his escape from the reform school and reuniting with his parents, Jensen attended Aloha High School?just outside?Portland. He graduated a year early and was also a nationally ranked table-tennis player. Jensen then went to Oregon State University and graduated?in 1984. He met his future wife to be there, Lori Mills, who was his lab partner. Lori graduated from Oregon in 1985, also with an electrical engineering degree. Sometime after graduation they married, and both found work in Silicon Valley as microchip designers. Jensen likes to share that Lori made more money than he did at their first engineering jobs.

In a few years Lori left the workforce to raise their two children. By then, Huang was running his own division at?LSI Logic?and attending graduate school at Stanford at night. He earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering in 19

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Seven years later, ever courageous Jensen left his comfortable job to start his own chip company, Nvidia, at age twenty-nine. Jensen loved video games and his original idea was to specialize in design and manufacture of graphics chips to make the game graphics run better. He started Nvidia with two other, older chip designer friends, Chris Malachowsky, a University of Florida graduate, my law school alma mater, and Curtis Priem. They had only $40,000 between them to start the company. They decided Jensen should be the CEO because Chris and Curtis knew he was a fast learner. This all happened at a Denny’s restaurant booth, which Jensen often used at the start as an office. He had worked at Denny’s in Oregon in the 1980s as a dishwasher and busboy. The rest, as they say, is history. Nvidia is now the sixth largest company in the world. How Jensen Huang’s Nvidia Is Powering the A.I. Revolution.

With their kids now grown Lori Huang serves as the president of the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang Foundation, supporting higher education, public health, and STEM initiatives across the U.S. Here is a photo of them in 2022 at which time they had just donated $50 Million to their alma mater, Oregon State University.

Huang and NVIDIA

As a result of Jensen’s childhood struggles as an immigrant, including life threatening attacks, he learned to thrive under grave pressure. He now has tremendous inner strength, drive and focus, along with a confident, low-key sense of humor. He literally thrives on great adversity, gets into the flow, concentrates and does his best work. This probably explains why the unofficial motto of the Nvidia is “Our company is thirty days from going out of business.” He used to open all of his big employees talks by saying this. It became expected. His calm, inner-warrior, super-hero persona came out in the recent NY Times, 2023 DealBook summit interview below. Click image below or?here?to see to see the video.

Jensen Huang loves his company, he even put a tattoo of the Nvidia company logo on his arm when the stock price hit 100. The stock price is now past 480. Jensen whines that he’ll never get another tattoo because it hurts too much, far more than his kids said it would! Unlike other tech billionaires, Jensen Huang is still a family man. His two children now work for Nvidia.

Jensen is also unusual in that his employees all seem to love him and his hard working, self-effacing style. I am sure the great pay helps too! His witty personality shows in his hands-on, creative management style, which includes writing hundreds of very short emails every day to the fifty employees who report directly to him. That’s right, fifty direct reports. This is an unprecedented number of employees to report directly to a CEO. Most corporations have six to ten direct reports. The Nvidia leaders say, without revealing any content, that his emails are very short, and poetic, like Haikus or one said, laughing, like ransom notes. The direct reports submit short lists to him every week of the five most important things they’re working on. He reads each report late the same night. Then he often shows up at their offices unannounced to talk to them about it. Stephen Witt, How Jensen Huang’s Nvidia Is Powering the A.I. Revolution, (The New Yorker, 11/27/23). Yes, he’s a very hard worker, and he likes what he’s doing now far better than cleaning toilets in a reform school.

Jensen is intense and sometimes has a temper, but is naturally affable, and due to his superintelligence, is a modest, creative-type boss. You can tell from the videos and his actions. Although Jensen Huang is now personally worth over Forty Billion Dollars, and is CEO of one of the most important Trillion Dollar corporations in the world, he still seems to be a genuine, kind-hearted person. Plus, many people, myself included, love his modest, deadpan sense of humor.

About the only thing bad I can say about him is that he doesn’t like science fiction, but he makes up for that by his love of video games. His employees must also love and appreciate the wealth that working for Nvidia has brought. Most of his long-term employees are by now very wealthy. They keep on working anyway for love of the job, the company, its leader and its mission. By the way, Jensen does not object to remote work and Nvidia’s beautiful, state of the art million square foot headquarters in Santa Clara is never full.

On November 30, 2023, during an on-stage interview of Jensen Huang by New York Times reporter, Andrew Sorkin, Jensen revealed an important insight into his courageous character and bold business operations. Jensen Huang of Nvidia on the Future of A.I. | DealBook Summit 2023. This ties in nicely with the classical myth of young Icarus and his cautious Dad, Daedalus, that began this series on fear of AI. In truth they are both right in some respects. Plato and Young Icarus Were Right: do not heed the frightening shadow talk giving false warnings of superintelligent AI – Part One. Click image or?here?to see the video of the interview on YouTube.

The brave character of Jensen, forged as a little kid in a fire of immigrant adversity, enabled him to boldly lead Nvidia to conceive and build a new type of computer, one that takes us into the bright fire of superintelligence. Nvidia has already been flying with these Icarus wings of AI for years. That is how Nvidia was able to reinvent computing and transform the computer industry. Nvidia used AI to design and build its supercomputers that all high-tech companies now crave. In another excerpt from the excellent NYT interview by Andrew Sorkin, you can hear Jensen’s description of the new heights to which Nvidia supercomputers have flown. This is great information for understanding where the AI industry is going. I suggest you listen to this a few times. Click image below or click?here to see the video on YouTube.

As Jensen Huang says: “We are in the beginning of a brand-new generation of computing.” This is the first reinvention of computing in sixty years. Jensen has touched the sun and come back to Plato’s cave of old technology to share his new knowledge.

Jensen is trying to tell people, “Everyone is a programmer now. You just have to say something to the computer.” Nvidia chief Jensen Huang says AI is creating a ‘new computing era’ (Financial Post, 5/30/23). For more details watch Huang’s two hour Keynote at the 2023 Nvidia annual conference.

AI Safety, Regulation and Full Employment

Jensen Huang views of safety, regulation and employment are sophisticated and convincing. They echo the thoughts of Ray Kurzweil, but they do so based on his experience as one of the most successful entrepreneurs of our era. Stephen Witt in his article, How Jensen Huang’s Nvidia Is Powering the A.I. Revolution, observes and quotes Jensen, and two of his direct reports, on the subject of AI safety.

He has never worried about the (potential dangers of AI) technology, not once. “All it’s doing is processing data,” he said. “There are so many other things to worry about.” . . .

This was also discussed in the NYT interview. Here is the relevant excerpt where Huang talks about regulation of AI as a product, like we inspect airplanes and regulate flight with the FAA. Click image or?here to see the video on YouTube.

For more insights into Huang’s reasonably cautious attitude on AI safety and regulation, we turn to the lengthy Acquired Interview of Jensen Huang in late October 2023. Here Jensen responds to questions by young podcasters related to the supposed danger of AI, especially employment loss. Jensen Huang’s spontaneous, often funny language flow provides a good glimpse into how he thinks.

Well, first of all we have to keep AI safe. There are a couple of different areas of AI safety that are really important. Obviously, in robotics and self-driving cars, there is a whole field of AI safety and we’ve dedicated ourselves to functional safety and active safety and all kinds of different areas of safety. When to apply human in the loop, when is it ok for the human not to be in the loop. How do you get to a point where, increasingly, human doesn’t have to be in the loop, but human is largely in the loop. In the case of information safety: obviously bias, false information and then appreciating the rights of artists and creators, that whole area deserves a lot of attention. You’ve seen some of the work that we’ve done. Instead of scraping the internet, we partnered with Getty and Shutterstock to create a commercially fair way of applying artificial intelligence in terms of AI.

So the message here is that AI will create more jobs than it replaces, but the new jobs will require knowledge of AI and AI tools. There are many free education resources online. One good place to look that we just discovered is NVIDIA On Demand, which has many instructional videos.