Hot New Thermodynamic Chips Could Trump Classical Computers
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Summary
Guillaume Verdon is CEO of tech startup Extropic, and is also known as his online alter ego, Based Beff Jezos, a major proponent of effective accelerationism, or ‘e/acc’
Effective accelerationism is an ideology that opposes effective altruism, a movement that warns the development of artificial general intelligence could represent an existential threat to humanity
Verdon created Extropic to develop hardware capable of harnessing probabilistic computing to provide a more efficient way to model uncertainty, using chips that can generate “programmable randomness”
As well as modelling tasks such as the weather and financial markets, the chips could eventually be used to power whole AI language models, Verdon claims.
