Kind of crazy that a computing device designed for desktop gaming has become critical to the emergence of super useful AI systems.

Feb 10, 2023 路 6:40 PM UTC

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It's always fascinating to see new areas emerge that the original creators may not have thought of 馃槉
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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.
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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...
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Physics = Intelligence = Gaming = AI = Physics
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Yes, that is rather err... interesting, isn't it... (Quickly rushes off to double down on Nvidia and ASML)
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Maybe life is just the biggest game of them all
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It鈥檚 called exaptation, and it is perhaps the single most important thing to achieve significant innovation.
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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...
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Growing up I couldn't wait to get the GeForce Graphics Card to play COD Black Ops.. And now the A100 is powering AI
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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.
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