Greg Brockman: AI is really about compute progress, as Kurzweil predicted in the 1990s
haider1 · x · 2026-09-15
OpenAI President Greg Brockman says he views AI technology as fundamentally about compute progress, noting that Ray Kurzweil predicted this exact moment in the late 1990s based purely on compute growth — and declared it the point where AGI becomes buildable.
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