Elon Musk bought 10,000 graphics cards. What for? There is one theory

According to two people close to the case with whom he spoke, Elon Musk was supposed to go shopping and return with 10,000 graphics cards, on which he spent tens of millions of dollars. They are supposed to go to Twitter, where the billionaire plans to start building a large, secret project. What surprise is Musk preparing for us?

10 thousand graphics cards for twitter. It’s not really about playing games

The billionaire, of course, did not confirm the reports anywhere and did not admit why he would buy such a number of graphics cards. It is certain, however, that it does not assemble a powerful gaming computer, but is preparing something much more ambitious. Often, GPUs are used by companies to build platforms for working on artificial intelligence. Training programs (e.g. chatbots) based on AI requires powerful computing power, and powerful graphics cards are perfect to provide it. Moreover, the billionaire recently hired Twitter AI engineers Igor Babuschkin and Manuel Kroiss, who previously worked at Google-owned DeepMind, an artificial intelligence project. It is therefore likely that Elon Musk is working on his own AI project, which may become part of Twitter, similar to China’s WeChat. Your own chatbot would probably be a good complement to several other services (e.g. social networking site, payment platform, etc.), which are to become part of the planned “for everything” app.

Interestingly, in March billionaire The authors of the letter believe that the extremely dynamic development of AI may cause the technology to slip out of control of its creators and potentially threaten humanity in the future. The signatories asked for a six-month break in work on systems more powerful than GPT-4 in order to gain time to develop safeguards and procedures for independent control of the development of artificial intelligence.