One person who knows a great deal about that is <\/strong>Jensen Huang<\/strong>, the president and CEO of <\/strong>NVIDIA<\/strong>, a company that designs and manufactures chips for accelerated computing and AI data centers. <\/strong>Fortune<\/em><\/a><\/strong> has named Huang one of the world\u2019s best CEOs for his leadership and innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, he appeared on the <\/strong>A Bit Personal<\/em><\/a> podcast with <\/strong>Jodi Shelton<\/strong>, who posed a big question: \u201cWho is the smartest person<\/a> you\u2019ve ever met?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n At first, the question sounds like a softball. Of course, <\/strong>Huang<\/strong> might be expected to name someone with exceptional technical talent or a keen eye for design and engineering. He could even point to an important scientist or a tech leader, such as Steve Jobs<\/strong>. Instead, Huang argues that the most intelligent people today are those whose skills can\u2019t be duplicated by AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI know what people are thinking, the definition of smart is somebody who\u2019s intelligent solves [technical] problems,\u201d Huang responded. \u201cBut I find that\u2019s a commodity and we\u2019re not about to prove that artificial intelligence is able to handle that part easiest, right?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n He added that software engineers were once widely seen as the most intelligent, but AI is now challenging that idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI think long term \u2026 and my personal definition of smart is someone who sits at that intersection of being technically astute but [has] human empathy,\u201d Huang said. \u201cAnd having the ability to infer the unspoken around the corners. The unknowables. People who are able to see around corners are truly, truly smart. To be able to preempt problems before they show up, just because you feel the vibe. And the vibe came from a combination of data analysis, first principle life experience, wisdom, sensing other people, that vibe. That\u2019s smart. I think it\u2019s gonna be the future definition of smart, and that person might actually score horribly on the SAT.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The podcast\u2019s Instagram <\/a>post<\/a> received hundreds of comments. \u201cThis is a very smart answer to make everyone sound like they have a chance of being smartest person,\u201d one popular commenter wrote. Another joked, \u201cBro knows he\u2019s the smartest person he\u2019s ever met.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ultimately, as we enter the AI era, it\u2019s becoming clear that the edge humans have isn\u2019t processing power, but the skills that make us most human: empathy, perception, wisdom, emotional intelligence, and the ability to read the room at both micro and macro levels. <\/strong>Huang<\/strong> understands that true human intelligence, something that can\u2019t be created in a data center, is, for now, still the most valuable asset of all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cPeople who are able to see around corners are truly, truly smart.\u201d Artificial intelligence promises to completely upend just about every facet of modern life, from how<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/694618060_1451609397000047_3497837976557876269_n.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8300,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8298\/revisions\/8300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"jensen](\"https:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/origin_941339.png\")
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Huang says truly intelligent people know the \u201cunknowables\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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