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The conditions for the AI revolution were intertwined
It is not a coincidence that data, transformers, and GPUs arrived together: shrinking transistors made personal computers economical, which created the internet and thus mass data, while the same transistor progress drove GPUs through gaming before Nvidia repurposed them for general computation — all dimensions of progress are intertwined and you don't get to pick which improve.
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Ilya SutskeverEvidence Quote
“The data exists because computers became better and cheaper, we've got smaller and smaller transistors.”
Source
Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) — Why next-token prediction could surpass human intelligence— Dwarkesh Patel PodcastCreated: 6/13/2026, 3:26:51 AM
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