Experts say AI the biggest thing to happen to humanity since the internet WSB-TV Channel 2 [Video]

ATLANTA — Most Americans have never heard of this company, but they’re worth more than Apple or Microsoft and it happened in breakneck speed.

Nvidia makes the majority of the chips that power artificial intelligence.

AI is quickly on its way to being as commonly used as your cell phone or the internet.

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“AI is really a history of taking a task that currently only humans can do, designing an AI agent that can do it, and then kind of understanding a little bit about what goes into that task,” said David Joyner, a computer scientist at Georgia Tech.

Joyner told Channel 2′s Justin Farmer that AI is on its way to becoming a part of our everyday lives, providing nearly infinite knowledge, tackling nearly any task and providing entertainment.

So who’s getting rich? The major chip makers: Nvidia, Broadcom and AMD.

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