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Deep learning continues to improve at astounding rates. In 2017 it costed $1,000 to train ResNet50 on the cloud, now it costs $10.
Thanks to AI accelerators and 'unlimited' compute in the cloud, AI algorithms are eating up 10x the amount of FLOPs per year.
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Watching the ratio of a company’s spend on humans vs. compute over time has been pretty telling on this point...
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AI is a confidence game.
They are spending so much on it, because people are subject to confidence games.
Human consciousness is getting spongy, not because AI is stronger, but because humans are getting bored