NVIDIA says the keyboard-and-mouse era of PC computing is being replaced by AI agents

NVIDIA has announced the 40-year PC model of opening apps, clicking, typing, and manually interacting with your PC is now over. The new era of PC interaction is here, and it's simply a combination of RTX Spark and Microsoft Windows.

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NVIDIA explained at GTC Taipei that AI agents will reinvent the PC after 40 years of keyboard and mouse computing. Huang goes on to say that users traditionally open apps, click around interfaces, type commands, and manually complete tasks, but in this new era of agentic computing, "AI is the UX," and instead of working within apps users will now be able to communicate an objective to an agent and watch as that agent carries out that task autonomously.

The new hardware that will usher in this new era of PCs is RTX Spark, NVIDIA's new super-chip purposely designed for Microsoft Windows. Huang and NVIDIA have described this as "the new PC" and "the personal AI computer". NVIDIA says RTX Spark is a culmination of many years of development as it brings together CUDA, RTX, FP4, TensorRT, OptiX, Reflex, G-Sync, and many other NVIDIA-created software.

"For forty years, you launched apps. Click. Type. With RTX Spark and Microsoft Windows, you ask - and the PC does the work. RTX Spark brings everything NVIDIA has built - CUDA, RTX, our AI platform - into a single superchip. Local agents. Frontier models. Creative workflows. RTX games. All on a laptop. This is the new PC. The personal AI computer," said Huang

In a nutshell, RTX Spark and NVIDIA's comments represent the next major shift in PC computing, and it isn't just a faster keyboard, sharper display, or better hardware, but a move away from manually interacting with PCs in the traditional sense.