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With 1 #transistor, I can make an inverter, a switch, or a not-very-good amplifier.

With 2 transistors, I can make a differential amplifier, a cascode, or a latch.

With 3 transistors, I can make a fairly good (Wilson) current mirror, or a Lorenz chaotic system.

20,000 transistors made a #computer that navigated spacecraft to the Moon and back.

But 10,000,000,000 transistors make a computer that's brought to its knees if it tries to interpret the Javascript used to load one #ad on a web page.

#computer #ad #transistor

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Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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I think one reason why some of us are attracted to things like large language models ("AI") is that we need to believe that our modern supercomputers are good for something more than performing, often still sluggishly, more or less the same tasks that we did 20+ years ago.

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