It's always fascinating to see new areas emerge that the original creators may not have thought of 😊

Humans will happily spend untold $ on fun and entertainment, not on the "long-term good" (e.g. R&D). Leverage it, don't fight it.

It's insane how many technologies gaming alone has pushed forward! Probably not as many as military can claim, but damn, it's a lot. And now NVIDIA's a major player in the research so it flows both ways...

Physics = Intelligence = Gaming = AI = Physics

Yes, that is rather err... interesting, isn't it... (Quickly rushes off to double down on Nvidia and ASML)

Maybe life is just the biggest game of them all

It’s called exaptation, and it is perhaps the single most important thing to achieve significant innovation.

it's an important lesson about the nature of technology. Technology developed for X can often be applied to quite different applications. Yet when considering the value of some potential or new technology, people tend to equate the tech with a specific application...

Growing up I couldn't wait to get the GeForce Graphics Card to play COD Black Ops.. And now the A100 is powering AI

It's wild that the causal chain to where we are was *already* strongly dependent on John Carmack, 3 decades before he started intentionally working on AI.