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most important technology transition in the history of humankind but Nvidia itself is not leading the software part? Are they selling shovels or why would they give that part of being the head develop the AGI and GOD?

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> most important technology transition in the history of humankind

Get real.

Farming? Plow? Steam engine? Combustion engine? Electricity? Air conditioning? Computers? Internet?

Creating a true digital brain would be humankind's greatest (last?) invention.

By what metric? In my opinion actually solving all of the problems we currently have and man we have a lot of them past the obvious ones like climate change, that would be our greatest achievement.

The optimistic thinking is that with thousands/millions of tireless 24/7 brains at work on these problems we could address more problems in biology, chemistry, physics, materials science, etc. faster. It's a bold, but not unreasonable belief.

But that’s not something actually actionable. This isn’t a plan, it’s pure hope that maybe potentially if we just put enough money and energy into this, it will just magically solve our problems. Call me a luddite but that’s a crazy amount of copium.

Lots of hope for sure. This is the biggest most expensive scientific endeavor in my lifetime. I can think of a lot worse things to spend the money/carbon on.

They just committed to invest $100b (!) in OpenAI and said $100b is only the start.

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