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This story begins with the godfather of AI, a man named Jeffrey Hinton.

In Canada, back in 2012, there was a team of AI researchers led by Hinton, the same guy currently warning folks that AI will doom civilization.

They were working on the artificial intelligence technology that everyone's talking about now. And this is key.

They were using Nvidia graphics processing units for their work.

Basically, Nvidia had invented this way of using its graphics chips for all other kinds of computing.

And it had not particularly thought about artificial intelligence.

That's Don Clark. He's been covering the chip industry for decades.

And so, these researchers in Toronto decided these were a great engine for doing what they want to do.

And this kind of snowballed and really is kind of at the core of the AI revolution we're now experiencing.

Wow. And how did Nvidia even find out about the researchers in Toronto?

What happens in this community is people start writing technical papers.

And at some point, they started submitting papers.

There were annual competitions in this whole AI world.

There was a famous moment when the GPU powered things just kind of soared to the top of the list.

It's sort of like recognizing a cat in an image, kind of a test.

Basically, at a certain point, the machine's got better than the humans.

That was kind of a big crossover point. And Nvidia was heavily involved in that.

At the time, Nvidia was best known for their graphics cards in the video game world.

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