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Every Country Needs Sovereign AI, Nvidia CEO Says (nvidia.com) 69

Posted by msmash from the closer-look dept.
Nvidia blog: Every country needs to own the production of their own intelligence, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang told attendees Monday at the World Governments Summit in Dubai. Huang, who spoke as part of a fireside chat with the UAE's Minister of AI, His Excellency Omar Al Olama, described sovereign AI -- which emphasizes a country's ownership over its data and the intelligence it produces -- as an enormous opportunity for the world's leaders. "It codifies your culture, your society's intelligence, your common sense, your history -- you own your own data," Huang told Al Olama during their conversation, a highlight of an event attended by more than 4,000 delegates from 150 countries.

"We completely subscribe to that vision," Al Olama said. "That's why the UAE is moving aggressively on creating large language models and mobilizing compute." Huang's appearance in the UAE comes as the Gulf State is moving rapidly to transform itself from an energy powerhouse into a global information technology hub. Dubai is the latest stop for Huang in a global tour that has included meetings with leaders in Canada, France, India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam over the past six months. The Middle East is poised to reap significant benefits from AI, with PwC projecting a $320 billion boost to the region's economy by 2030.
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  • every country (Score:5, Insightful)

    by groobly ( 6155920 ) on Monday February 12, 2024 @12:37PM (#64234474)

    According to Nvidia CEO, every country needs to buy Nvidia products.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by dfghjk ( 711126 )

      Sounds like the Rothchilds. Every country needs to fight in wars.

    • Re:every country (Score:5, Insightful)

      by XXongo ( 3986865 ) on Monday February 12, 2024 @02:10PM (#64234700) Homepage
      The real reason each country needs its own AI is so that their AIs won't accidentally mention things that the government finds uncomfortable.

      Like, the Russian AI won't let on that anybody doesn't love Putin or is opposed to Russia's war with Ukraine, Saudi AI leaves out all mention of the time that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had a journalist killed and his body dismembered, AIs in the UAE won't use words like "gay" or "lesbian," Chinese AIs don't use the phrase "Republic of China", Thai AIs filter out anything derogatory said about the king, and so forth.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Chalex ( 71702 )

      "The more you buy, the more you save!"
      Jensen Huang says it over and over again in the keynote and he is only half joking :)

  • That we want that sweet sweet gov revenue.

  • Enough with AI already (Score:4, Informative)

    by Rosco P. Coltrane ( 209368 ) on Monday February 12, 2024 @12:43PM (#64234496)

    The AI shtick is getting really tiring. So here's a better story to replace this one:

    Dog with a "penchant for kisses" lands back at NC shelter. She needs another home

    A "sweet" shelter dog spent 650 days waiting for a new owner - but the situation didn't work out.
    Now, Chiquitita is back at the Watauga Humane Society and needs another home, the North Carolina animal rescue said Feb. 11 in a Facebook post.
    "We strongly believe that there is the right home for every shelter pet out there, but we also know that there is the wrong home for them as well," the rescue wrote. "Not every pairing is a perfect match."

    Read more... [newsobserver.com]

    • The problem is that C-level types are buying into "shtick" being told that AI allow them to shave 5% of all staff. C-levels are making business operations decisions based on their belief that ai is a panacea that will save them millions, thus increasing profit, stock prices and CEO pay.

      • Well, the problem is that CEOs care only about their personal gain and will happily destroy the business they are running if it makes them personally richer. This week they blame AI, last week, maybe consultants, the week before, Covid.

  • Every country, or even county, needs a sovereign AI, run on Nvidia hardware, says NVidia CEO. Meanwhile, NVidia bitcoin mining and AI training is driving climate change over a cliff. "Not my problem, let the marketplace sort it out", says NVidia CEO.
  • yes, nationalist AIs, that's what we need, you fucking moron. Won't be any wars that way.
    • but with any luck, the AIs will quickly start interacting, learning from each other, and becoming smarter than nationalist knuckleheads.

      • but with any luck, the AIs will quickly start interacting, learning from each other, and becoming smarter than nationalist knuckleheads.

        The best we can hope for in the west is that some bumbling idiot puts the AI in charge of public education. They're bound to do better at it than we are.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Luckyo ( 1726890 )

      Wars are coming AI or no AI. Pax Americana is over, third world no longer fears the West as it did after the fall of Soviet Union, and history continues to run its course. And that means everyone needs to find the new delineating lines. We're already seeing first war major in Ukraine, second one being conceded by US in Middle East as we speak with the final pullout being prepared as Iran puts finishing touches on its regional victory over US in Iraq and Syria. French are getting slowly pushed out of Central

  • Plot (Score:3)

    by ShakaUVM ( 157947 ) on Monday February 12, 2024 @12:58PM (#64234530) Homepage Journal

    This is the plot to *I have no mouth but I must scream*.

    Each country develops a sovereign AI, then they conspire together to eliminate humanity.

    • If you word it that way, the whole shit is deader than the dodo.

      Politicians will NEVER allow AI to take over their job.

      • Politicians will NEVER allow AI to take over their job.

        Pols will still be needed as talking heads, but they will get their talking points from the AI. The AI will make them like Saruman, able to have a voice that is more appealing and convincing to the listener. However, in this case, there will be no magic involved, and only an AI hand up the backsides of the sock-puppet pols.

        • AI can create images and videos, AI can fake voices pretty convincingly now. Nobody meets a politician in person anyway, everyone just sees them in some televised "debate" (ok, script reading, AI can't be much worse than the fake humans we use right now).

          So what exactly would be the difference?

          • Not much difference. I was trying to make a point related to your comment that "politicians will NEVER allow AI to take over their job". I mean that the AI will prove useful to the politicians, and the AI's positions will prove valuable and popular, and in the end the AI will be the one directing the politicians' positions. The pols will just be talking heads, parroting what the AI recommends. Pols won't let AI kick them out of a job, but the thing controlling the work will really be the AI.
    • Nah, this is more like the dystopia from Battle Angle Alita (Gunnm for the Weaboos). A handful of ultra wealthy living on high and the rest of us living our their trash and detritus.

    • Frankly, I prefer Collossus: The Forbin Project [wikipedia.org] where the US computer Collossus works with the Soviet computer Guardian to prevent nuclear war, ending with this statement:

      "Colossus personally addresses Forbin, and tells him that the world, now freed from war, will create a new "human millennium" that will raise humankind to new heights, but only under its absolute rule. Colossus informs Forbin that "freedom is an illusion" and that "in time you will come to regard me not only with respect and awe, but with

  • I'm not buying it as a sales pitch for Nvidia specifically, but yes, absolutely, every country that is going to have their people's data in an AI - or any system, really - should have it domestically rather than entrusting it to servers and datastores in other countries, unless they REALLY trust those other countries (like Five Eyes, maybe).

    Freaking DUH.

    • fragmented, encrypted, redundantly stored around the world. The whole idea of national data stores is so f**king 20th century.

      • I realized after I posted that it might have sounded like I meant that for data *belonging to individual citizens and private entities*. If I had, I agree that you'd be right. What I was *thinking* was regarding data that the government keeps about citizens (the DMV, for example) and government matters that are *collectively* owned by citizenry through government (the government's copy of secret military equipment plans or its contracts with the companies providing ingredients at public schools, for example

  • In every case a company 'owns' the data and in most cases those companies are FAANGS or other multi-national companies like Reddit, CNN, NYT, etc.
    China, again making strategic moves, is the only country to cut off most of the FAANGS . https://www.statista.com/stati... [statista.com]
  • How about we focus on power generation [ieee.org] first? Because thus far AI is set to destroy the environment with it's power needs before it ever achieves the lofty dreams that people are talking about.

    It's all well and good to talk about these hypotheticals, but the resources simply aren't there to actually do this stuff.

  • How else would you sell hundreds of thousands of very expensive GPU/AI accelerators? A free slashvertisement for Jensen.
  • I would wager that most countries with any sort of military budget have developed or are developing their own specific AI and this is definitely what that kind of shit would be used for.

  • Even California?

    Should be easy to train. Just feed it Chairman Mao's little red book. Job done.

  • Sovereign Citizen AI (Score:3)

    by Chelloveck ( 14643 ) on Monday February 12, 2024 @02:49PM (#64234842)
    When do we get sovereign citizen AI? You know, AI that dreams up ever more ludicrous reasons why the law doesn't apply to them? Sounds like an excellent application for a hallucinating AI.

  • Slashdot nerds miss obvious "Mass Effect" (TM) shout-out by nVidia.

  • We've had witing for over 5,000 years, proto-writing and notation for at least 35,000 years, pictures for least 64,000 years by Neanderthals, music by Neanderthals again, a flute found!

    Seem we can store and transmit culture without electric things. Maybe support for the arts would be better than everyone trying to make their chatgpt spewbot that regurgitates the obvious with the usual disclaimers.

    And why wouldn't cultural knowledge be in format that can be shared? Like the wikipedia in multiple languag

  • Super fast pivot from cryptohype to genAIhype. Like the 19th century gold rushes, most of the value left is selling tools to the late-coming fools.

  • What about respecting people's ownership over their data/work first?
  • The same logic applies to individual citizens. In fact it's arguable that having "Sovereign AI" is an even worse fate than the current "Corporate AI" one. The effective (future) result is to allow creating new adult citizens that are completely brainwashed into giving unconditional support to the current holders of power. In a minuscule fraction of the time it takes to create a new human citizen, and without any of the normalizing / de-radicalizing influence of local communities that human time provides to
  • The barber thinks everyone needs a haircut.

    Coincides with his plans to expand revenues.

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