Jen-Hsun “Jensen” Huang, the head of Nvidia, which has benefited the most from the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, says it has advanced so far that parents should no longer force their children to learn programming, The Register reports. .

Huang made the comments at the World Government Summit in Dubai, saying future students could be more profitable if they focused on fields such as science, engineering or agriculture.

“You probably remember that in the last 10-15 years, almost everyone who appeared on such a stage told you that it is vitally important that your children study computer science. Now everything is exactly the opposite,” he said.

“That’s why so many people are talking about artificial intelligence today, because for the first time you can imagine that everyone in your company can be a technologist,” he added, noting that “the technology gap has completely closed.”

He also said that tomorrow’s scientists, engineers and farmers will be able to use advanced computer systems independently with the help of AI.

“Now you have a computer that will do what you tell it to do to help you automate your work, increase productivity and become more efficient,” Huang added.

The AI ​​revolution has made Nvidia the third most valuable company in the US

The share price of Nvidia, the company that authoritatively dominates the market for graphics processing units (GPUs) – those that use artificial intelligence systems for their complex operations – has risen impressively after the launch of ChatGPT and the huge hype caused by the product OpenAI and others seemed to catch fire.

Since the beginning of this year alone, Nvidia’s share price has increased by 66% and reached $790 during the last trading session on the New York Stock Exchange. By comparison, on December 23, 2022, a day after OpenAI officially released ChatGPT to the general public, Nvidia’s share price at the close of the US stock exchange was only $152.

Nvidia’s impressive rise has made it the third most valuable US company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, with a market capitalization of $1.977 trillion, behind only Microsoft and Apple.

In this way, Huang’s company has overtaken e-commerce giant Amazon and Alphabet, the parent company of Google, the world’s most popular search engine. On the 6th place in the rating is Meta Platforms, a company founded by Mark Zuckerberg, whose portfolio includes Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.

Nvidia’s stock price has risen so much recently that in the first 5 weeks of this year, its market value has increased more than the total capitalization of Tesla, the most famous manufacturer of electric cars.

But not everyone is convinced by Huang’s advice for programmers.

“I’ve been hearing for over 30 years that ‘XYZ is going to kill programming,’ but we still don’t have enough programmers,” Patrick Moorhead, a veteran industry analyst, told The Register.