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Inside the Black Box: The Supercomputers We Don’t Understand

Inside the Black Box: The Supercomputers We Don’t Understand

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We built machines that can write, reason, and respond at superhuman scale—yet even their creators cannot fully explain how they arrive at their answers. Tonight we explore the staggering processing power behind modern LLMs, the supercomputer infrastructure that trains them, and the unsettling truth about emergence, scale, and the limits of human comprehension. When intelligence becomes statistical, what exactly have we created—and what does it reveal about us?

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