The first time Jensen Huang tried ChatGPT, he asked it to write a poem about his company. Huang, who’d made a bet more than a decade ago that Nvidia Corp.’s computer chips could serve as the brains for artificial intelligence, was pleased with the result: “NVIDIA rises to the challenge. / With their powerful GPUs and AI, / They push the boundaries of technology’s edge.” The robo-poem was evidence, by his literary standards anyway, that the wager was finally paying off.
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