In almost all the comments on technology, the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI) appears in the background and along with it the chips on which it is based. Because we can't fool ourselves into thinking that AI is fundamentally software, since that software runs on hardware, and that hardware is supported by chips.

This is where the fierce struggle between the USA and China comes from to try to dominate and control the manufacture of chips. Without powerful chips, AI cannot develop at the required speed.

And those chips are manufactured mostly in Taiwan, an island that has been claimed by China for many years as an integral part of its territory, which complicates the situation in the long term. That is why the USA and Europe desperately try to have some chip manufacturing in their territory, realizing (very late) that current and future technology passes through them, and that the supply is not guaranteed at all.

Intel was the dominant company in chips when they were mainly used in computers, but that changed long ago to make chips ubiquitous in small and portable devices (mobiles, smart-phones, etc…), and some are specialized chips in performing calculations very efficiently known as GPU's (Graphic Processor Unit).

From these new companies, Nvidia predominates, which manufactures GPU chips and cards that are used in computers and devices of all kinds to perform complex calculations and with enormous speed. Just what AI needs to develop and grow. No wonder Nvidia's market value is over $500 billion, and growing.

This enthusiasm for AI has been increased among the public with the ChatGPT program, which is going to have many other followers, and which, according to the experts, will expand to other areas.

Currently, no one is considering where the AI is going to be used, but just the opposite, where the AI is not going to be used. I have seen that some compare the AI revolution with the one we had years ago with APPs, which have changed the way we use technology today.

I don't know how it will be, but this last assessment seems quite accurate to me, because for non-experts in the field, the AI should be something easy and intuitive to use.

What everyone does agree on is that AI is here to change the way we work and live. And this is not good or bad, it is simply so. We will all have to adapt to it, and those who adapt later, too bad for them.

Amador Palacios

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