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At sufficiently large scales, a visual-intelligence system with millions or billions of sensors could be limited because the speed of light prevents sensor data from reaching a central processor in time.

Richard Socher · Humanity’s Last Invention — Richard Socher of Recursive · 14 Sept 2026

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“And so when you think about the upper bounds of a visual intelligence,”
“you should go into like you can have like millions and billions of sensors. At some point you get to problems of how far”
“far are these sensors away from each other such that the speed of light to communicate the content from all of them cannot like get to a central brain to actually process the visual intelligence right and so now you're thinking in along did i mention in the space of vision the dimension of numbers of sensors is like the upper bounds are quite literally and figuratively astronomical and we are super far away from any intelligence intelligence”
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