Isn't It Interesting?

 That the central component of the future of humanity - AI - is called a GPU?

That stands for game processing unit.

That's the chip that can do a bunch of stuff blindingly fast at the same time.

Unlike a CPU, which can do a bunch of stuff blindingly fast sequentially.

In the chip race the GPU is the only player.

Until somebody creates a multi-stack GPU.

If they can find the real estate on the silicon available.

But, back to here and now.

That's why - they make GPUs and Intel makes CPUs - NVDIA is a multi-trillion-dollar company and Intel is verging on selling off for parts.

I keep wondering why this quote from Andy Grove, one of Intel's founders, didn't carry them into AI-Land: “Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.”

NVDIA makes GPUs; Intel makes CPUs.

Isn't it interesting that a product - games - that started in arcades that attracted lots of young men to come in and play has become the cornerstone technology of everything?

Isn't it interesting that those young men all seem to be misogynistic sociopaths?

But I still love War Games and Last Starfighter. 

You never know.