The second route to a durable lead, in which the leader has more compute, more power, deeper capital, faster iteration and a state behind it. Every chapter after the first tests it. Chapter 1.
From The AI Compute Race. Read the book
The book uses this term in a sense of its own.
Where the book uses it
- Chapter 1 — The Stakes
What the race is for: the belief that a lead in AI can compound into a lasting advantage, how long such leads have actually lasted, and what a trillion dollars a year is being bet against.
Also discussed in
- Dated test Chapters 1 and 12, the second route
Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Superiority of the machine.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/superiority-of-the-machine (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-superiority-of-the-machine-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Superiority of the machine}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/superiority-of-the-machine},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}