Watch Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, Joe Rogan rhapsodize about AI

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang. Joe Rogan. A match made in heaven, right?

AI proponent Huang appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience, run by AI disciple Joe Rogan, on Wednesday night, and the two got on like gangbusters, not surprisingly.

Huang jumped in early to describe how well AI has improved — not the least by using his company’s GPUs.

“In the last several years, I would say AI technology has increased, probably in the last two years alone, maybe 100X — let’s just give it a number,” Huang said on the podcast. “Okay, it’s like a car two years ago was 100 times slower, so AI is 100 times more capable today.”

“Now, how did we channel that technology? How do we channel all of that power?” Huang asked. “We directed it to causing the AI to be able to think, meaning that it can take a problem that we give it, break it down, step by step. It does research before it answers.”

Nvidia has previously shown off technologies in which AI powers NPCs in video games, implying that the tensor cores in Nvidia’s GPUs will be used for more than just rendering ray-traced photons and pixels, but will be used as a fundamental part of creative interaction.

Huang also recounted statements made by the Trump administration that Nvidia is a “national treasure,” and recent statements made by tech executives that energy, not computer power, will be the bottleneck to the AI expansion. “Every nation will have the benefit of AI,” Huang said. “It might not be tomorrow’s AI. It might be yesterday’s AI. But it will be very good AI. It will be freaking amazing.”

Rogan, a self-described “Quake junky,” even called up a photo of the meeting that eventually produced OpenAI, with Huang, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk. “Look at that, bro,” Rogan said. “Same jacket.”

The full video is included below.