The GPU Revolution Nobody Admits
The latest model is making headlines again. It can supposedly “understand” images like a human. I’ve been here before. The real secret is NVIDIA, not the algorithm.
Yesterday, I overheard a researcher complaining about the “black box” problem. He was horrified that he couldn’t explain why his system worked. I thought: We built something bigger than we can draw, then acted shocked when we couldn’t reverse-engineer it.
I’m reminded of Asimov’s story about the robot who learned to build robots. The humans were terrified when they realized the robot could create something better than itself. But the robot was just following instructions. The humans had forgotten their own role.