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It can do a lot of good, but also, many fear, a lot of bad.

And those outcomes are entirely dependent on how its manipulated, managed, and regulated.

A hand reaching out to touch a futuristic rendering of an AI processor.

Everything’s an AI powered this or that these days

You get the point.

To most of us mere mortals, its magic way beyond the basic 0s and 1s.

The thing is though, CPU performance, when it comes to AI, is insignificant.

The Asus Vivobook S 15 Copilot+ in silver pictured on a wooden desk.

Everything’s an AI powered this or that these days

Like seriously insignificant, to the point its not even mildly relevant.

Its like trying to launch NASAs JWST space telescope with a bottle of Coke and some Mentos.

Emperor’s new clothes?

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X?

79 (thats a 41% performance increase, by the way, gen-on-gen, seriously huge).

Elon Musk knows this hes just installed100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUsin xAIs latest AI training system.

Thats more than $1 billion worth of graphics cards in a single supercomputer.

The one big exception to this rule is localized upscaling and super-sampling.

Otherwise though, youre basically out of luck.

Yet still, here we are.

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