Timecube... Although I'm not sure if that's what you were thinking of.

The advertisers still pay, they just don't get conversions.

Having written the AI systems for Robocode bots 15 years ago, they perform at such a higher level than humans that there is no way, given all the time in the world, a human can compete with a full statistical targeting and movement system. We just don't think in that way.

People are not uniform fungible programmers. I want someone who is a specialist and above average at the stuff I'm trying to do. If that specialization commands a higher market rate than average, then yes, that's what they get paid.

Hoe much dedicated cache do these NPUs have? Because it's easy enough to saturate the memory bandwidth using the CPU for compute, never mind the GPU. Adding dark silicon for some special operations isn't going to make out memory bandwidth faster.