By: Nick Gambino
Nvidia has been at the forefront of intelligent processing for some time. Now it’s time for the company to step into the forefront of artificial intelligent processing
At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced the newest line of graphic cards – the GeForce RTX 5090, the successor to the RTX 4090. That legacy card has the reputation as the most powerful GPU on the market. Until now.
The 5090 boasts a ton of memory and power that blows its predecessor out of the water. That’s needed to usher in the era of AI and games and programs that depend on it to run properly. NVIDIA saw the need and delivered.
“That’s the future,” Huang said in his CES keynote address. “You’re going to have superintelligent AI that will let you write, analyze problems, deal with supply chain planning, write software, design chips.”
He went a step further, dismissing the idea that AI and robots would be bad for humanity. In doing so, he kind of tripped over his own premise in a wonderful contradiction.
“The technology of course, can be used in many ways, but it’s humans that are harmful. I think machines are machines,” he said in his speech.
This is the “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” argument. While this rhetoric seems to make sense upon cursory inspection, it falls apart when you see it for what it really is – no more than a justification for making harmful weapons and simultaneously eschewing regulation.
And that’s the issue, these “super intelligent” humans are so giddy about the idea of creating something new in unbridled fashion they don’t seem to stop and look down the line at its results. Or they do, and the answer is one they can live with.
To quote the wise and insightful Ian Malcolm, “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
That said, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 will be available for purchase on January 30th 2025 for a not-inexpensive $1,999.
