Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicts boom in self driving cars, says ‘This is going to decade of ...'

Nvidia

CEO

Jensen Huang

recently said that the next decade will be the era of autonomous driving cars, robots and autonomous machines. In an interview with CNBC’s Arjun Kharpal Thursday at the Viva Tech conference in Paris, Huang said “This is going to be the decade of AV [autonomous vehicles], robotics, autonomous machines.” Nvidia is playing an important role in the rise of

autonomous vehicles

(AVs), supplying both hardware and software to support their development. The US chip giant is a key enabler behind the growing fleet of

self-driving cars

, especially in the U.S., where

Waymo

— owned by Google — operates robotaxi services in cities like San Francisco, Phoenix, and Los Angeles.China has also seen growing adoption, with companies like Baidu and Pony.ai running their own robotaxi networks.

When Jensen Huang said programming AI is like programming a person

Recently, Huang attended the London Tech Week where he said that AI is a “great equalizer” as it enables anyone to program using everyday language. Admitting that computing was hard historically, he said “We had to learn programming languages. We had to architect it. We had to design these computers that are very complicated”. “Now, all of a sudden ... there’s a new programming language. This new programming language is called ‘human,’” he added. "Most people don't know C++, very few people know Python, and everybody, as you know, knows human.”He continued: “The way you program a computer today, to ask the computer to do something for you, even write a program, generate images, write a poem — just ask it nicely.” “And the thing that’s really, really quite amazing is the way you program an AI is like the way you program a person.”Explaining further, Huang gave an example saying, “You say, 'You are an incredible poet. You are deeply steeped in Shakespeare, and I would like you to write a poem to describe today's keynote.' Without very much effort, this AI would help you generate such a wonderful poem.”