NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has delivered a critical message to students and young professionals worldwide: learn to prompt AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini Pro, and Grok before anything else. A clip of Huang delivering this message is going viral on social media.
In a podcast with Cleo Abram on Huge Conversations in January 2025, Huang said, “One of the most important things I would advise is, for example, if I were a student today, the first thing I would do is to learn AI. How do I learn to interact with ChatGPT? How do I learn to interact with Gemini Pro? And how do I learn to interact with Grok?”
Jensen Huang said if he were a student today, he wouldn't prioritize coding. He'd prioritize learning how to talk to AI.
— Dustin (@r0ck3t23) February 9, 2026
Most people treat AI like Google. Type a question, get an answer, move on. Huang sees it differently. He calls it “expertise in artistry,” which sounds… pic.twitter.com/2LYtDcCVCj
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Huang likened mastering AI interaction to the artistry of asking the right questions, a skill essential for excelling in every field. He emphasised that prompting AI isn't about firing off random queries.
“Learning how to interact with AI is not unlike being someone who is really good at asking questions. You're incredibly good at asking questions, and prompting AI is very, very similar. You can't just randomly ask a bunch of questions. And so asking AI to be an assistant to you requires some expertise in the artistry and how to prompt it,” he said.
No matter the discipline, be it maths, chemistry, biology, or even finance and engineering, Huang urged learners to ask: "How can I use AI to do my job better?
“If I want to be a lawyer, how can I use AI to be a better lawyer? If I wanted to be a better doctor, how could I use AI to be a better doctor? If I want to be a chemist, how do I use AI to be a better chemist? If I want to be a biologist, how do I use AI to be a better biologist? That question should be persistent across everybody,” he underlined.
The viral video has sparked several reactions.
“Learn to clearly describe what you want coded. AI Agents will increasingly be able to write the requested code. Then it's up to you to use your domain expertise to vet what's produced,” said one user.
"Jensen Huang said if he were a student today, he wouldn't prioritize coding. He'd prioritize learning how to talk to AI."
— Kingsley Uyi Idehen (@kidehen) February 9, 2026
Yes! Learn to clearly describe what you want coded. AI Agents will increasingly be able to write the requested code. Then it's up to you to use your domain…
Another person said, “If the current generation of experts no longer need to teach younger generations their expertise, only what questions to ask AI, in 10-15 years who will be the experts?”
100% agree.
— BlakeBiernacki (@BlakeBiernackiX) February 9, 2026
The question will shortly be, what do you do if you don't have the domain expertise? How will you know what questions to ask? How will you know what answers to seek?
If the current generation of experts no longer need to teach younger generations their expertise,…
In the podcast, Huang also reflected on how AI has “lowered the barrier of intelligence”.
“The thing that's really, really crazy is if I put a computer in front of somebody and they've never used a computer, there is no chance they're going to learn that computer in a day…And, yet with ChatGPT, if you don't know how to use it, all you have to do is type in, ‘I don't know how to use ChatGPT. Tell me.' And it would come back and give you some examples. And so that's the amazing thing.”
“The amazing thing about intelligence is, it'll help you along the way and make you a superhuman, you know, along the way,” he added.
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