š® Exponential computing; basic income; plant-based meat; corona-tech; Ubuntu ethics, Greenland sharks & air gaps++ #269
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š§Ø Algorithmic optimisation is driving exponential improvements in AI performance faster than Mooreās Law, argues AI research group, OpenAI. It now takes forty-four times less compute to build a neural net to the power of the breakthrough 2012 AlexNet. āAlgorithmic progress has yielded more gains than classical hardware efficiency.ā The critical point here is that weāre seeing performance improvements across four different axes in machine learning computation: increased algorithmic efficiency, improvements in hardware architecture (such as dedicated AI hardware from ā¦
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