why did AI take off now and not in 1999? the ideas mattered, but the hardware is the real story.wrote up how it actually...

why did AI take off now and not in 1999? the ideas mattered, but the hardware is the real story.wrote up how it actually works, from tokens, embeddings and self-attention to GPUs, HBM and NVLink, plus some back-of-envelope math on what this would've taken 25 years ago. and yes, there's a section on the Skynet thing. spoiler: no drives, no goals. the real risk is us.https://ryanthomashuff.com/how-ai-really-works-hardware-llms/#AI #LLM #MachineLearning #GPU #Transformers #AISafety #Datacenter