The course of AI development is subject to disruption itself, with events seemingly popping up from nowhere. Jensen Huang’s resignation will not be the last surprise that AI development will have to deal with, as that is always true for any huge technological change, and for the course of human history as well.
Which is not to say this event is just par for the course, as it features an almost unbelievable spy vs spy component, and also features the formerly leading light of Data Center build-outs soon to be “wandering in the desert of unbankable geniuses.”
As has been noted, it remains to be seen what the follow-on effects will be, and if NVIDIA can thrive without it’s number one asset. It also remains to be seen which other tech giants might have been compromised by dysfunctional behavior …as yet unrevealed. Or as yet not brought to account.
When the leaders of this tech transformation are a small group at the top of the hierarchy they can make their decisions with few constraints, and that can speed development as it did with NVIDIA. But given human nature and foibles, it also means that when one of the tech autocrats runs amok, the consequences are broad and deep.
For example, Elon Musk is now (post Huang) the most powerful single technocrat in the world, and there have been for some time obvious vulnerabilities in how he’s running his businesses, and from the controversial …at minimum… political actions he’s been involved in.
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