"Jensen Huang has largely been a force for good in AI," with a 2017 NeurIPS lunch anecdote
future_coded · x · 2026-11-13
The author argues Jensen Huang has largely been a force for good in AI, praising his pragmatic takes as a welcome contrast to doom/singularity narratives. He also recalls spotting Huang walking alone to a lunch meeting at NeurIPS 2017 — no retinue — and exchanging pleasantries, sharing a photo from the conference that afternoon.
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