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The very real constraints on artificial intelligence in 2025
Prepare for superchips, supercomputers—and supersize headaches
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By Henry Tricks, US technology editor, The Economist
Fifteen years after his death, David Blackwell’s name will be on every tech nerd’s lips in 2025. Nvidia, a semiconductor giant, has named its latest superchip after the mathematician and game theorist, who was the first African-American inducted into the National Academy of Sciences.
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This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition of The World Ahead 2025 under the headline “The real limits on artificial intelligence”
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