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Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent

230 points · 299 comments · jonbaer

  1. xg15 · · focus · HN ↗
    What does this chip do what a harness with guardrails or running on an account with restricted permissions doesn't do?
    1. chinathrow · · focus · HN ↗
      Generating even more revenue for Nvidia.
    2. wmf · · focus · HN ↗
      It has a separate address space separated by PCIe so even escaping the hypervisor won't give access to DPU memory.
      1. iAMkenough · · focus · HN ↗
        Yes but, if a human can control it, a machine can control it.
    3. N_Lens · · focus · HN ↗
      Increase NVDA shareprice!
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