Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI

https://www.axios.com/2026/05/...

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang told graduates at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh yesterday that demand for AI infrastructure is creating a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to reindustrialize America and restore the nation's capacity to build."

Why it matters: With many college grads fearing AI could obliterate their career dreams, Huang pointed to boundless opportunity as a "new industry is being born. A new era of science and discovery is beginning ... I cannot imagine a more exciting time to begin your life's work."

Nvidia, which makes AI chips, is the world's most valuable company. Huang told 5,800 recipients of undergraduate and graduate degrees that the AI buildout will require plumbers, electricians, ironworkers, and builders for chip factories, data centers and advanced manufacturing facilities.

"No generation has entered the world with more powerful tools â" or greater opportunities â" than you," he said. "We are all standing at the same starting line. This is your moment to help shape what comes next. So run. Don't walk."

"Every major technological revolution in history created fear alongside opportunity," Huang added. "When society engages technology openly, responsibly, and optimistically, we expand human potential far more than we diminish it."

Full speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Man, I wish my portfolio was lagging like NVidia.

I'm a medicinal chemist and have been for 45 years. I also tend to vote fairly liberally, though the leftists thought police were beginning to get on my nerves. Anyhow, my feeling is that glyphosate is probably a lot safer than anything that we try to replace it with, that works as well. When anything has been used as much a glyphosate and the only people sure of it's toxicity are lawyers, then you've got a pretty safe agent. Go to Lowe's hardware and get a container of new Roundup and read the label. The new stuff in there is surely more toxic than glyphosate and is more chemically kin to Agent Orange and paraquat. Be careful what you ask for here. Oh yeah, I kind of feel the same way about methylene chloride.

But I thought we were fighting fascism. Why don't you come out from behind the anonymous coward identity if you are so convinced that the oligarchy is better?

Too bad so many have hurt feelings about doing the right thing. Typical Slashdot.

...like "Tell me about Tiananmen Square" or "Tell me about Xinjiang".

Is this what you want for the future?

My thoughts back when R1 came out:

https://www.afcea.org/signal-m...

The reason I pulled away from Amazon is because I'm not going to sit around pissing myself about the rich while funding their wealth at the same time. Too bad too many assholes don't feel the same about the situation. I still like physical books, for the most part, so now I buy used from Half Priced Books who has a local storefront.

Show your face, you sniveling coward!

What, pray tell, would you even do with 10 petabytes of data?

Given where "cable" was heading, this was kinda "Duh!". Of course it was going to happen. We went from $240/mo with AT&T's service to $140 with Google Fiber and Youtube TV. And everything got better in the process.

Of course, now that Google Fiber is being bought by private equity, the enshitification will began anew.

This is really bad news. TWC started it all with Road Runner and then started their enshitification. Mostly, their settop boxes and remotes just didn't work and, of course, the steady 2x inflation rise in prices. Then AT&T came in and was a breath of fresh air with clear pricing and reliable high speed. Unfortunately, their enshitificaion was even more rapid with 4x inflation rises in prices. Then, after years of promises, Google Fiber finally shows up. It's been bliss for 5 years. Then I saw this. When I saw the words "investment firm" in an announcement somewhere else this morning, I knew we were for another round of enshitification. Oh well, here we go again.

I keep trying to get AI to answer chemistry questions, mostly of an organic synthesis nature. I get answers that sound like they might know something but it's not very specific. Sort of like trying to bullshit your way through it. I think it will be a long time before we get good AI on organic synthesis which is kind of central to drug discovery. It's mostly because the literature isn't all that easily extractable. The other is that there's a lot of garbage to ignore. And yes, I'm aware of AlphaFold et al. I'm also aware of the limits of extending that model.

This is Bullshit! The dose is the poison. And the dose is too low.

I'm no gun nut, nor do I worship at the feet of the second amendment, but this seems downright stupid. I'm betting this Bauer-Kahan person, although well intentioned, is probably not really well informed on this. I'll go do a little research.

I'm back. Just as I thought. A very nice person with good intentions who is also a lawyer. So yeah, no clue. She does seem to have something against plastics in general.

"each capable of storing more than one bit". I think of a voxel as the smallest usable volume in a 3-D array. How do they get more than one bit? Are they stored in shades of grey? Am I going to have to RTF?

This kind of cassette loaded methodology for the production of vaccines, may be one of the grater medical advances of the century. And the "brilliant" zeros of the tRump administration have decided to trip it up at every opportunity. Shame, shame, shame on the thirty-nine percenters who back this garbage no matter what!