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A reminder for the week of GTC: LLMs do not “know” anything nor do they “understand” anything nor do they “reason about” anything, because they are in fact not capable of any of those things. They are fancy predictive text completion, and that’s it; anyone claiming to offer you more than that is trying to sell you a bill of goods. Don’t fall for it.

I watched yesterday’s #NVIDIA #GTC keynote. Notably the big robotics demo failed and had to be restarted from the beginning. Still interesting (and cute!) but definitely ruined the magic trick. I get the temptation to do a big splashy live demo, especially if you have the technical muscle that a company like NVIDIA has, but it absolutely must work.

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Todays #NVIDIA #GTC announcements included building a GPU chip that’s twice the size of what’s currently possible by joining two max size chips together via a 10 Terabyte/s chiplet interface, adding memory and having 208 billion transistors in the package. Interfacing that Blackwell GPU via 1.8 terabyte/sec interface to 576 other GPUs. For non-techies, these are ludicrously large numbers. Blackwell is named after African American mathematician David Blackwell. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bl

en.wikipedia.orgDavid Blackwell - Wikipedia