


Microsoft is an investor in the company and the two are engaged in a partnership aimed towards accelerating 'AI breakthroughs'. ' users are constantly discovering new applications for them, from weather simulation and gene sequencing to deep learning and robotics,' Matt Wuebbling, global head of GeForce marketing at Nvidia, previously told the Guardian.Įarlier this month, Microsoft said it had recently purchased tens of thousands of Nvidia AI-focused GPUs to power the workload of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. It's also rapidly expanding into fields such as AU and provides its GPUs to smart vehicles and robotics – including the likes of Tesla and Amazon. Instead, the US company likes to focus on providing its chips to the gaming sector, helping render graphics and images by performing rapid mathematical calculations. His comments came despite Nvidia selling graphics processing units (GPUs) for use in crypto mining, although the company released software back in 2021 that deliberately biased against the practice. 'They bought a lot of stuff, and then eventually it collapsed, because it doesn't bring anything useful for society. 'All this crypto stuff, it needed parallel processing, and is the best, so people just programmed it to use for this purpose,' Kagan said. Mining, meanwhile, lets people earn cryptocurrencies by solving computational problems that verify transactions in the currency.

In comparison, crypto is not 'something that will do something good for humanity', Kagan said.Ĭryptocurrencies are the internet's version of money – unique pieces of digital code that can be transferred from one person to another. 'You just tell it what to do, and it will and if it doesn't work the way you want it to, you tell it "I want something different".' 'With ChatGPT, everybody can now create his own machine, his own programme,' Kagan said. Since its release in November, it's been used to write essays, prescribe antibiotics, fool job recruiters and even come up with beer recipes. ChatGPT, created by San Francisco-based company OpenAI, has been trained on a massive amount of text so it can generate human-like answers to questions.
