The chips developed by Nvidia form the basis of the infrastructure that enables large artificial intelligence models such as ChatGPT to operate today. This forecast of the company not only reflects Nvidia’s growth expectations; It also reveals the scale that the artificial intelligence economy has reached.
This news reminded me of some conversations I’ve had in recent weeks.
Recently, I had the opportunity to meet with IBM Türkiye General Manager Işıl Kılınç Gürtuna, Microsoft Türkiye General Manager Levent Özbilgin and PEAKUP CEO Ahmet Toprakçı. What these tech leaders representing different institutions had to say was strikingly common.
They all pointed to the same point: Artificial intelligence will change our lives, and this change is not in the distant future as we think.
It is no longer a theoretical technology
In the technology world, artificial intelligence has been described as the technology of the future for many years. However, at the point we have reached today, this expression is rapidly losing its meaning.
Companies have now begun to place artificial intelligence directly at the center of their business processes, rather than as experimental projects. Artificial intelligence systems have begun to be actively used in many areas, from software development to customer services, from production to the finance sector.
One of the most important indicators of this transformation is the explosion on the hardware side.
Today, the world’s largest technology companies are announcing hundreds of billions of dollars of investment plans to equip their data centers with artificial intelligence chips.
Nvidia’s $1 trillion revenue target is exactly a result of this transformation.
Oil of the new age: computing power
Just as coal and oil were decisive in the Industrial Revolution, computing power plays the same role in the age of artificial intelligence.
Large AI models require millions of specialized chips to train and run. For this reason, today, a significant part of technology competition is experienced on the hardware side, not software.
This huge wave of investment in artificial intelligence affects not only technology companies but the entire economy.
Many sectors, from finance to health, from the defense industry to education, are trying to rapidly integrate artificial intelligence-supported systems.
The debate is no longer “will it happen?”
Another point that caught my attention in my meetings with technology leaders in recent weeks was this: No one is discussing whether artificial intelligence will change our lives anymore.
The issue under discussion is: How quickly will this change occur?
Because for many companies, artificial intelligence is no longer a productivity tool.
It becomes a platform that forms the basis of new products, new services and even new business models.
The real question is: are we ready?
One of the biggest misconceptions about artificial intelligence may be to think that this transformation will proceed slowly.
However, the figures announced by Nvidia, the investments made by companies and the message given by technology leaders are quite clear.
Artificial intelligence is no longer just a topic in the technology world. It is at the center of a transformation that reshapes the economy, workforce and daily life.
Maybe that’s why we hear this sentence more often in the technology world: Artificial intelligence will not change our lives in the future. Our lives have already started to change.
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