GLOSSARY: Are You A Gamer, Yet?

среда, 13 сентября 2023 г.

Are You A Gamer, Yet?

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“There are over a billion gamers in the world, but there are 8 billion people. Someday everybody’s going to be a gamer,” said Jensen Huang, in a recent interview with Katie Tarasov, a senior producer at CNBC.

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In an exclusive interaction with AIM, Huang admitted that AI has actually made gaming better, and gaming has made AI better. “We used AI to revolutionise computer graphics, graphics enabled AI, and now AI is saving graphics.”

He further explained how gaming is getting the spotlight back with companies training AI agents on games “and building something crazy out there”.

Backed by NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, Sony AI’s superhuman AI agent GT Sophy learned to drive cars from scratch on the hyper-realistic game Gran Turismo 7. Even OpenAI, the company obsessed with achieving its AGI dream, is experimenting with AI agents within games after its recent acquisition of Global Illumination.

One might be quick to point out that the company is shifting its focus to the AI industry. But fulfilling the gaming dream is still what the company aims to do. The second quarter revenue of the company also hinted at the same dream. The revenue was up by 22% in gaming for the company, regardless of that AI was the biggest contributor to its revenue.

Looks like NVIDIA just stumbled upon AI when it was actually headed for making gaming big all this while. Not just agents, but several gaming companies are already leveraging generative AI. And no, it’s not just to make AI-generated assets and graphics, it’s for the characters in these games. Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim announced in May, that it is going to integrate Inworld AI, allowing players to converse with NPCs, harnessing the power of LLMs.

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India Needs NVIDIA – How much?

Five years ago, Jensen Huang personally hand-delivered the first NVIDIA DGX AI supercomputer to a startup, which was none other than, OpenAI. “OpenAI now has more than 10,000 GPUs [i.e. close to 40 AI supercomputers],” disclosed Jensen, explaining that each AI supercomputer rack consists of 256 GPUs.

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Now, for Indian companies, let’s say Reliance and Tata to reach OpenAI-level success in AI, how many GPUs will they need? Read to find out.

Be like Midjourney

Midjourney has been appreciated for the sheer brilliance of the product minus the fluff. A user on LinkedIn recently wrote, “No funding. No management layers. No B2B. Just discord and the excited public!” Others acknowledged the competence of the individual/team behind Midjourney, emphasising their coding skills, timing, and strong work ethics, highlighting the distinction between genuine businesses and those that rely on empty promises.

To top it all, it has also been able to rake in this huge revenue without VC funding. But, how are they doing all of this? Read to find out.

Less Noise, More Quantum

Recently, International Data Corporation (IDC) reported IBM as the leader in MarketSpace on quantum computing systems, followed by Rigetti Computing and Quantinuum in the major players segment. Unfortunately, NVIDIA was nowhere to be found in the report.

“We support every single quantum computing centre in quantum computing,” expressed Huang. NVIDIA believes in the mix of classical computing and quantum computers – “Classical computers will not go away,” said Huang, adding it would at least take two more decades to be actually useful, or even exist.