In 2021, Nvidia produced about 5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 FLOPs of GPU compute, the equivalent of about 5 million human brains. If Sam Altman is to achieve his dream of artificial general intelligence in his lifetime, that number will need to double or triple every year for the foreseeable future.
Such a dream will require more money than has ever been spent on any business venture in history, an order-of-magnitude increase in the rate at which we produce energy, a global supply chain that…
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