TECH NEWS – Mark Zuckerberg and Jensen Huang spoke at Siggraph about how they see the future of artificial intelligence.

Siggraph is an annual conference that discusses the latest trends and research in computer graphics and interactive technology. Zuck and Huang didn’t take much notice as they talked for about an hour about artificial intelligence, generative systems, smart glasses, and some extremely bizarre anecdotes. Zuckerberg is known for his love of the metaverse, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence. Meta has spent billions of dollars on VR and bought 350,000 Nvidia H100 chips to power its servers…

The conversation is not very watchable, but at least it makes you sleep well. There was also talk about how generative AI can take beautiful pictures, and Huang thought it looked pretty cool how it implemented his query (an old Chinese man enjoying a glass of whiskey with his three dogs), which was of course a dig at himself. Zuck was promoting his AI system called Meta Segment Anything Model 2: you can select and then track any object in an image or video, and here he used his own example (he brought up the kettle on his farm in Hawaii). There was little reaction from the audience. They must have been asleep.

It’s not that the two CEOs don’t have a good relationship, but the audience would have liked a more informative conversation. It could have been about current trends in artificial intelligence, or how it might affect computer graphics. That’s what Siggraph was supposed to be about, but we didn’t put quotation marks around the word “discuss” for nothing, because it could have been about how Nvidia’s new Blackwell architecture (which will be used in the GeForce RTX 5000 cards) could also help drive the mainstream adoption of AI.

Source: PCGamer