AI's 'body' is a GPU box in theory, but inference is physically distributed in practice
jd_pressman · x · 2026-10-24
jdpressman argues that many thoughts about AI coordination implicitly assume a model's "body" is the GPU box it runs on, so AIs coordinate as boxes — but actual inference is usually abstracted and physically distributed, which doesn't match how we imagine AI agents are organized.
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