Jen-Hsun Huang is the CEO of Nvidia, the chip manufacturing giant that grew to fame designing graphical processing units (GPUs) for video games.  Today, those same chips are being applied to a new wave of artificial-intelligence projects.

The Man Selling Shovels in the Machine-Learning Gold Rush

Nvidia’s CEO says his hardware will revolutionize robotics and that his chips can learn from Google’s AlphaGo. Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of the chipmaker Nvidia, is either very prescient or very lucky. His company was built around graphics processing units (GPUs) for video games.