…sad having to see this development…but knowing it very good from my own past…until God crashed my life, otherwise I would have never got thankful for Jesus Christ, who paid for my sins at the cross, and who is the only hope for everybody to have peace with God and to have not to fear the justice day – as God is ready to forgive, but we are not ready to admit…yes, He has really hard work to do, until someone gives up, as I personally know from myself…but I never regretted, also if this and that from the past life sometimes attracts…I never want to go back into this dependance…

Btw., as ending of the comment – sorry Mr. Morgan for the long comment:
When I first read Jeremiah 10 I was instantly reminded of our hope in IT, to change everything (climate, diseases, …) to the better:
Jeremiah 10:3 ^
For that which is feared by the people is foolish: it is the work of the hands of the workman; for a tree is cut down by him out of the woods with his axe.
Jeremiah 10:4 ^
They make it beautiful with silver and gold; they make it strong with nails and hammers, so that it may not be moved.
Jeremiah 10:5 ^
It is like a pillar in a garden of plants, and has no voice: it has to be lifted, for it has no power of walking. Have no fear of it; for it has no power of doing evil and it is not able to do any good.
Jeremiah 10:6 ^
There is no one like you, O Lord; you are great and your name is great in power.
Jeremiah 10:7 ^
Who would not have fear of you, O King of the nations? for it is your right: for among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is no one like you.
Jeremiah 10:8 ^
But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.
Jeremiah 10:9 ^
Silver hammered into plates is sent from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the expert workman and of the hands of the gold-worker; blue and purple is their clothing, all the work of expert men.
Jeremiah 10:10 ^
But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and an eternal king: when he is angry, the earth is shaking with fear, and the nations give way before his wrath.
Jeremiah 10:11 ^
This is what you are to say to them: The gods who have not made the heavens and the earth will be cut off from the earth and from under the heavens.
Jeremiah 10:12 ^
He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out.
Jeremiah 10:13 ^
At the sound of his voice there is a massing of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain, and sends out the wind from his store-houses.
Jeremiah 10:14 ^
Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.
Jeremiah 10:15 ^
They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.

In my view, Keller’s Tenstorrent approach is more conceptual than the more common GPU-repurposing avenue (or prior-product pragmatism?); to wit, the key nexus of their contribution (possibly slightly buried in the volubility of the exchange) seems to be:

“the graph needs to be lowered with interesting software transformations and map that to the hardware […] we have a graph compiler and our architecture is more of a dataflow machine”

Amen to this sort of innovation (in my opinion).

Acknowledge “never automated” you check when a comment is said by the system a duplicate even on no resemblance to the original ok a flag calling attention for your consideration.

My audit shows some believe the bots. If a system work said or concluded the system work must be right on the vastness of stored knowledge, said knowledge? Individual entities or group think or save your insurance? Over time continuing evolutionary improvements? Down what track? Independent and or mutually dependent observers also note corporate-esk of sorts seems to end in the entity observed not responding or engaged in diversions that stretch things out to make oversight observations go away.

Obviously this is not about large language models, I think, at least not yet and recommendation systems seem to work on my derived preferences.

Others believe triangulation to formulate reasoning from said archive of knowledge in any number of ways can be flawed and that I take this is your point.

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I agree, this was sort of a stunning interview. Tenstorrent has been at it since 2016. And Keller has been there since 2020. But he’s been in the eye of AI chip development for a lot longer than at (at Intel and Tesla). He’s got what 3 or 4 AI chips under his belt by now.

So it’s hard to get over him eluding to or using the term “signal”. Like proof of life or something. “A positive signal” on our ability to build and sell product.

I get that what they’re shooting for is hard. I just thought they’d be further along than this sort of proof of life at this point. It sounds tenuous. And then there is always the software content which I’m not sure happens until they have a viable product. It just points to the idea Nvidia is going to be in the driver’s seat for some time to come.

Mike, love you man, but you gotta give me a chance to moderate comments. This is not automated, and it never will be.

Interesting article from Mr Prickett, J. Keller great ! congratulations both.

Indeed, chapter 20 of “The RISC-V Instruction Set Manual: Volume I, Unprivileged Architecture” (12/2022, 05/2023), entitled: “J” Standard Extension for Dynamically Translated Languages (Version 0.0), is a must read! It was Chaper 14 in the 2017 Manual, and 18 in the 2020 Manual, and has remained very stable. It deals with the most widespread of application languages (eg. Python):

“[…] popular languages […] implemented via dynamic translation, including Java and Javascript [that] can benefit from […] dynamic checks and garbage collection”.

One logically infers from that detailed spec, which very concisely speaks volumes, that the need for a 2W3R design will self-prompt engineers to evolve a consistent 64-bit-wide instruction set that simultaneously supports dynamic languages and HPC/AI vector ops. The performer to watch-out for will be RISC-VJ (RISC-VI++) — like a James Brown RISC Machine … d^8