00:03U.S. chip designer NVIDIA is betting on AI to revive American manufacturing.
00:09That test might come with one factory in a small city in northern Texas.
00:14NVIDIA and optical technology company Coherent are investing $2 billion in a factory in the city of Sherman.
00:22It will produce key components to link AI chips,
00:25helping power the massive AI systems behind chatbots and other advanced applications.
00:31In an interview this week, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said the present technology boom also requires societies to adapt.
00:39He compares the AI revolution to the arrival of the automobile,
00:43arguing that innovation and regulation must develop together.
00:48When automobiles came, we needed to create new social norms.
00:52So all of that combination of social norms, regulations, safer cars, seatbelts,
00:59and all the technology that comes along with it, it's all of it at the same time.
01:03So I think you have to deal with regulation, technology.
01:06Huang made the case as AI faces growing resistance.
01:10The factory represents a fundamental test.
01:13Whether AI will be a source of job creation, as Huang says,
01:17or a technology that replaces workers,
01:20as it becomes possible to analyze data, run an assembly line,
01:24or even drive an entire automobile without much help from humans.
01:29Patrick Chun and Lily Lamatina for Taiwan Plus.
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