According to NVIDIA boss Jensen Huang, a central problem with the reliability of AI software can definitely be solved.
One way is to have the software check the information. “Hallucinations are very solvable,” Huang said on the sidelines of the NVIDIA developer conference GTC on Tuesday. AI hallucinations are cases in which software simply invents things.
The problem arises because programs like the chatbot ChatGPT estimate word by word how a sentence could continue when formulating texts. Because of this, they can sometimes give completely wrong answers, even if they have only been trained with correct information.
With its chip systems, the semiconductor specialist NVIDIA plays a key role in the current boom in artificial intelligence. At the GTC, Huang presented the next generation of the computer platform called Blackwell, on which AI applications should run more efficiently.
Huang was convinced that artificial intelligence would largely relieve people of writing software code. For a while it was said that everyone should learn to program. “I think that’s wrong,” said the NVIDIA boss. It was not people’s job to learn a programming language. Instead, computers should be useful even if you don’t know a programming language. However, one will have to learn to get the desired result from AI software using correctly formulated requests – so-called “prompts”. But it’s fundamentally comparable in terms of people’s ability to interact with each other: “When my wife speaks to me, it’s also prompt – and it works perfectly.”
Huang believes it is possible that artificial intelligence will surpass human abilities in various areas in a few years – for example in mathematics and bar exams or in understanding texts. This is also what he is basing himself on in the current debate about whether software will reach the level of so-called general artificial intelligence – which usually means that it can generalize and is superior to humans. However, there is no definition for it that everyone agrees on, he emphasized.
In NASDAQ trading, NVIDIA shares temporarily rose by 0.14 percent to $895.33 on Wednesday.
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