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Why Success Feels Like Failure at NVIDIA

Invisible Machines podcast by UX Magazine

Show Notes

Bryan Catanzaro was instrumental in the adoption of GPUs for powering machine learning, which has effectively turned NVIDIA from a graphics processing hardware company into a $4T AI powerhouse. Bryan joins Robb and Josh to talk about his journey in AI and how the unique psychology and power structures at NVIDIA enables the company to continually meet the moment in surprising ways. They also discuss the impact of Bryan’s plea for help in categorizing data for emerging language models at a 2019 keynote he delivered to librarians at Stanford. Perhaps most importantly, Bryan shares thoughts on how hair was the first technology.

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