What are the primary physical bottlenecks to scaling artificial intelligence?
Replied bySam Altman
Co-founder & CEO at OpenAI
Niche: AI
Revenue: Approx. $2 Billion/month
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Started: 2015
Transistors are the primary bottleneck, followed closely by electrons, meaning the physical energy grid. To produce intelligence and manipulate matter, we must build massive data centers, which requires substantial energy and physical infrastructure.
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