Chips Are the Future of AI. They’re Also Incredibly Vulnerable. With Chris Miller

Beneath the race to train and release more powerful AI models lies another race: a race by companies and nation-states to secure the hardware to make sure they win AI supremacy. Correction : The latest available Nvidia chip is the Hopper H100 GPU, which has 80 billion transistors. Since the first commercially available chip had four transistors, the Hopper actually has 20 billion times that number. Nvidia recently announced the Blackwell, which boasts 208 billion transistors - but it won’t ship until later this year. RECOMMENDED MEDIA Chip War: The Fight For the World’s Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller To make sense of the current state of politics, economics, and technology, we must first understand the vital role played by chips Gordon Moore Biography & Facts Gordon Moore, the Intel co-founder behind Moore's Law, passed away in March of 2023 AI’s most popular chipmaker Nvidia is trying to use AI to design chips faster Nvidia's GPUs are in high demand - and the company is using AI to accelerate chip production RECOMMENDED YUA EPISODES Future-proofing Democracy In the Age of AI with Audrey Tang How Will AI Affect the 2024 Elections? with Renee DiResta and Carl Miller The AI ‘Race’: China vs. the US with Jeffrey Ding and Karen Hao Protecting Our Freedom of Thought with Nita Farahany Your Undivided Attention is produced by the Center for Humane Technology . Follow us on Twitter: @HumaneTech_ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.