On Wednesday, Nvidia touted how it had used a virtual version of CEO Jensen Huang during April’s GTC keynote. However, the CG-Huang only appears in a short scene, not for the entire presentation.
Wait, did Nvidia actually use a computer-generated version of the company’s CEO to make an entire keynote address? Uh, no. But a company blog post and the ensuing chatter on social media may have led you to mistakenly believe that. For a moment, we certainly did. On Wednesday, Nvidia revealed that it used a CG-version of CEO Jensen Huang for his April GTC keynote address. A video from the GPU maker also documented the behind-the-scenes process to create the virtual Huang, which involved rebuilding his home kitchen in a 3D environment, scanning his face and body, and even hiring a motion-capture actor. The news naturally made us wonder if the Jensen on display during the GTC keynote — which lasts over an hour—was an elaborate fabrication this whole time. Others immediately concluded the same, and believed Jensen’s talk during GTC was deepfaked or computer-generated.
