Guillaume Verdon stands In front of me with a new computer chip in his hand, a hardware he believed that it was so important to the future of humanity that he asked me not to reveal our exact position, because he was afraid that his headquarters could become an industrial spy target.
This is a lot I can tell you: we are in an office a short driving from Boston, and the chip from the casting workshop just a few days ago. It lies on a circuit board to the width of the large Mac. Silicon itself has a pink size Quantum chipBut the intestines of a completely new model is called thermodynamic computing.
Unlike its quantum brothers, thermodynamic computing promises to be beyond binary constraints as 1 and 0. Exploit Those fluctuations.
The engineers are pursuing both models in a race to accelerate the common silicon chips in the past and meet the crazy needs of the processing power in AI's era. But Verdon, with his startup, Extropic, was not just a contestant in that race. He is also one of the most embarrassing men of whom. He is known more than his online change, based on Beff Jezos, the founding prophet of an ideological system called an effective acceleration.
Known as “E -ACC” Effective selflessnessA movement convinces many people with technical minds that the rise of artificial intelligence, unless it is determined and creates safety for a risk that is almost certain for humanity. “Ea is like: 'I believe in Leprechaun and the burden of proof is for you to refuse me', 'has gone a pretty typical one. Based on the article beff From 2022.
Whose existential risk movement, he wrote in Another article That year, it was a information that caused depression in our talented and smartest people, killing our production benefits for a more prosperous future. Another frequent goal of his mockery is the AI ethical movement, in which criticizing major language models like bias and blind spots of their architects. When based on the Beff continued to spread the Gospel of E/Acc online, it quickly became a protest between some members of the upper -class technology, with outstanding characters such as Marc Andressen and Garry to temporarily add to E/ACC to their X name.
Effective acceleration is probably considered the most technical profit of a broader ideologicalist: A belief that American politics is broken and cautious, excessive, and awakened the ideological system that is holding the country. That that morality helped push Donald Trump back to the White House, with Elon MuskA hero of the E/Acc movement, beside him. Like Trump 2.0, effective acceleration promises an unmarried American Renaissance and a view that is not affected by the work needed to go there. In both cases, the details are fuzzy.
But under the clear resolution of the laboratory microscope, the specific chips of Verdon's new chip, if nothing else, simple to see: A series of squares with a few dozen micron wide a few dozen. These components, Verdon Promise, will be used to create a chip programming, in which the probability can be controlled to create useful calculations. When combined with a classic computer, he said, they will provide highly effective way to model uncertainty, a major task in all advanced computing types, from modeling of weather and financial markets to artificial intelligence. (Some academic laboratories have built a thermodynamic prototype, including a simple Neuro networkTechnology at the center of modern machine learning.)