Jensen Huang’s Techno-Optimism Has a Point: Catherine Thorbecke

Back in 2016, Jensen Huang famously donated his company’s first artificial intelligence supercomputer to a little-known nonprofit called OpenAI. In a letter accompanying the gifted DGX-1 device, the Nvidia Corp. chief executive officer wrote: “To the future of computing and humanity.”

A lot has changed since then, including increasing attention on AI’s risks and enormous energy requirements — as well as the rise of Chinese competitors, many of which were built on Nvidia technology. But Huang’s techno-optimism was on full display during his many appearances this week at Asia’s biggest tech conference in Taipei.

Huang received a Taylor Swift-like welcome in the city where he was ...